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Great Revolt against Naram-Sin
The Great Revolt against Naram-Sin, also called the Great Rebellion against Naram-Sin, was an uprising of Sumerian cities crushed by the Akkadian king in nine battles.
Great Royal Wife
Great Royal Wife (hemet nesut weret) was the title of the pharaoh's principal wife, introduced around 1700 BCE and held by queens such as Tiye, Nefertiti, and Hatshepsut.
Great Summary Inscription of Sargon II
The Great Summary Inscription of Sargon II is a Neo-Assyrian royal inscription carved on palace wall slabs at Dur-Sharrukin, surveying his campaigns, including the capture of Samaria.
Great Theban Revolt
The Great Theban Revolt, also called the Egyptian Revolt of 206 BC, was a native Egyptian uprising in Upper Egypt against Ptolemaic rule, lasting from 207/206 BC to 186 BC.
Gudea
Gudea was ensi (ruler) of the Sumerian city-state of Lagash in southern Mesopotamia around 2150-2125 BCE, remembered as a temple builder and known from many diorite statues and inscriptions.
Gudea Cylinders
The Gudea Cylinders, or Cylinders of Gudea, are two inscribed clay cylinders from Girsu, Lagash, narrating the building of Ningirsu's É-ninnu temple around 2120 BC.
Gudea diorite from Magan
Gudea diorite from Magan is the dark stone, called na4esi in Sumerian, that Gudea, ruler of Lagash, said he brought from Magan and carved into statues of himself.
Gudea's building of the Eninnu temple
Gudea's building of the Eninnu was the construction of the temple of Ningirsu at Girsu by Gudea, ruler of Lagash, in the late 22nd century BC.
Gudea's building program at Lagash
Gudea's building program at Lagash was the extensive temple building and restoration by Gudea, ruler of Lagash, c. 2144–2124 BC, centering on the Eninnu temple of Ningirsu at Girsu.
Gudea's expedition to Magan
Gudea's expedition to Magan was a venture by Gudea, ruler of Lagash, to obtain diorite from Magan, usually identified with Oman, for his royal statues around 2144–2124 BCE.
Gudit
Gudit, also known as Yodit or Esato, is a 10th-century queen of Ethiopia whom tradition credits with persecuting the church and toppling the kingdom of Aksum.
Gudit's sack of Aksum
Gudit's sack of Aksum is the tenth-century burning of Aksum and extermination of its royal family by the queen Gudit (Yodit, Esato), traditionally ending Aksumite rule until the dynasty's restoration around 1270.
Guelaât Bou Sbaâ Neopunic inscriptions
The Guelaât Bou Sbaâ inscriptions are Neo-Punic texts from a site near Guelma, Algeria, the ancient Numidian city of Calama, cataloged in the Handbook of Neo-Punic Inscriptions.
Guennol Lioness
The Guennol Lioness is a small stone figure of a striding lioness from Elam, circa 3000–2800 BC, which sold at Sotheby's in 2007 for a record $57.2 million.
Gulkishar
Gulkišar was the sixth king of the First Sealand dynasty of southernmost Mesopotamia, placed in the 17th century BC and known from later king lists and a royal epic.
Gulussa
Gulussa was a prince and later joint king of Numidia, the second son of King Masinissa, known for diplomatic missions to Rome and commanding cavalry at the siege of Carthage.
Gungunum
Gungunum of Larsa was a king of Larsa in southern Mesopotamia, the fifth ruler of the Larsa dynasty, who reigned 27 years, 1932 to 1906 BC.
Gurgum
Gurgum was a Syro-Hittite kingdom centered at Marqasi, the modern Kahramanmaraş in southern Turkey, ruled by thirteen Luwian-speaking kings until Assyria annexed it in 711 BC.
Gurob papyri
The Gurob papyri are Greek documentary papyri found at Gurob in the Fayum during Flinders Petrie's excavation, covering court records, petitions, and tax papers from 226 to 209 BC.
Gusi
Gusi (Guši, Guš) was an Aramean ruler of northern Syria around 890–860 BC, eponym of the kingdom of Bit Agusi, whose capital was Arpad and who paid tribute to Assyria.
Gutian conquest of Akkad
The Gutian conquest of Akkad, also called the Gutian capture of Akkad, was the takeover of southern Mesopotamia by Gutians from the Zagros Mountains at the end of the Akkadian Empire.
Gutian language
Gutian, also called Gutean, is the unclassified language of the Gutians, a Zagros Mountains people known only from names in Sumerian and Akkadian records of the later third millennium BC.
Gyges (king of Lydia)
Gyges, also known as Gyges of Lydia, was king of Lydia in western Anatolia during the 7th century BC, founder of the Mermnad dynasty, killed fighting the Cimmerians.
Gyges' embassy to Assurbanipal
Gyges' embassy to Assurbanipal was a diplomatic mission sent around 665 BC by Gyges, king of Lydia, to Ashurbanipal at Nineveh, after the god Ashur appeared to Gyges in a dream.
Gyges' tribute to Ashurbanipal
Gyges' tribute to Ashurbanipal was a payment sent to Nineveh in the mid-660s BC by Gyges, king of Lydia, after a dream promised victory over the Cimmerians.
Haankhef
Haankhef was an Egyptian of the Thirteenth Dynasty, known as the non-royal father of the pharaohs Neferhotep I and Sobekhotep IV, whose reigns spanned roughly 20 years.
Haankhes
Haankhes, also written Ha-ankhes, was an Egyptian queen of the early 17th Dynasty at Thebes around 1670/1650 BC, known from stelae naming her as the mother of Prince Ameni.
Haapi
Haapi, also written Hapi, was an Egyptian commissioner resident in Sumur in Canaan, accused in seven Amarna letters of the mid-14th century BC of betraying Egyptian interests to Aziru of Amurru.
Habiru
The Habiru, also written Apiru or Hapiru, were a marginalized social group in Bronze Age Mesopotamia, Syria, Canaan, and Egypt, known from texts including the 14th-century BC Amarna letters.
Hablum
Ḫablum was a king of the Gutian dynasty of Babylonia, named in the Sumerian King List between Ibranum and his son Puzur-Suen, with a recorded reign of 2 years.