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Ain Nechma inscriptions
The Ain Nechma inscriptions are Neo-Punic votive stelae from Aïn Nechma in the territory of ancient Calama (modern Guelma), northeastern Algeria, dating between 146 BC and 200 CE and including a dedication to Baal Hammon.
Akalamdug
Akalamdug, meaning "The son of the good land", was a Sumerian ruler of Ur around 2600 BC, known only from inscribed cylinder seals in the Royal Cemetery of Ur.
Akhamenru
Akhamenru was a high official of Thebes in the late 25th Dynasty of Egypt, serving as Chief Steward of the God's Wife of Amun Shepenwepet II.
Akhenaten
Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), 18th Dynasty pharaoh of Egypt (ca. 1353–1336 or 1349–1332 BC), promoted exclusive worship of the sun-disc Aten, founded the capital Akhetaten (Amarna), and sponsored Amarna art; his reforms were reversed under Tutankhamun.
Akhetaa
Akhetaa (Akhetâa) was a high official of Egypt's Third Dynasty around 2700 BC, known from a limestone door-jamb relief found at Saqqara and held in the Louvre.
Akhethetep (son of Ptahhotep)
Akhethetep was a Fifth Dynasty Egyptian official and vizier, father of the vizier Ptahhotep II, buried with his son in the double mastaba D64 at Saqqara.
Akhimenru
Akhimenru, also written Akhamenru, was a Chief Steward of the God's Wife of Amun at Thebes during the Kushite 25th Dynasty, serving Amenirdis I and Shepenwepet II.
Akhmim Wooden Tablet
The Akhmim Wooden Tablet is an Egyptian mathematical text from around 2000 BC that divides the grain measure hekat by 3, 7, 10, 11, and 13.
Akhraten
Akhraten, also spelled Akhratan, was a king of Kush in the Napatan period, ruling in the second half of the fourth century BC between Harsiotef and Nastasen.
Akinidad
Akinidad was a royal figure of the Kingdom of Kush who served as viceroy of Lower Nubia and general under Queens Amanirenas and Amanishakheto, dying around 24 BC.
Akizzi
Akizzi was a king of Qatna, at Tell Mishrifeh in Syria, who flourished in the mid-14th century BC and is known chiefly as a correspondent of Pharaoh Akhenaten in the Amarna letters.
Akkadian Empire
The Akkadian Empire (c. 2350/2334-2154 BCE), also called the Empire of Agade, was the world's first multinational empire, founded by Sargon the Great in Mesopotamia; it introduced standardized administration, a postal system, and divine kingship, and collapsed amid revolts, Gutian invasion, and a debated 4.2 ka drought.
Akkullanu
Akkullanu was an Assyrian scholar of celestial divination and senior priest of the god Ashur who served kings Esarhaddon and Ashurbanipal in the seventh century BC.
Aksumite conquest of Meroe
The Aksumite conquest of Meroe was a fourth-century campaign by King Ezana of Aksum against Kush, known from his Greek and Ge'ez inscriptions and long credited with ending the kingdom.
Aksumite invasion of Himyar
The Aksumite invasion of Himyar was a 525 CE campaign in which King Kaleb of Aksum overthrew Yusuf Dhu Nuwas, the Jewish king of Himyar in Yemen.
Aksumite–Persian wars
The Aksumite–Persian wars, also called the Abyssinian–Persian wars, were 6th-century contests between Aksum and Sasanian Persia for South Arabia, ending Aksumite rule in Yemen around 570.
Aktisanes
Aktisanes (Greek Actisanes, Ἀκτισάνης) is a king of Aethiopia, the Greek name for Kush, whom Diodorus Siculus describes as conquering Egypt and founding Rhinocolura; modern scholarship doubts the account.
Akurgal
Akurgal of Lagash was an ensi, or city ruler, of Lagash in Early Dynastic Sumer around 2500 BC, the son of Ur-Nanshe and father of the conqueror Eannatum.
Al-Walid ibn Mus'ab
Al-Walid ibn Mus'ab (الوليد بن مصعب) is a legendary Amalekite king of Egypt in medieval Arabic chronicles, identified by many Muslim traditionists as the Pharaoh of Moses.
Al-Yahudu tablets
The Al-Yahudu tablets, also known as the Al-Yahudu archive, are Babylonian cuneiform legal documents from a village of Judean deportees in southern Mesopotamia, written between 572 and 477 BCE.
Alacahöyük bronze standards
The Alacahöyük bronze standards are 39 Hattian bronze objects from the royal tombs at Alacahöyük, Turkey, dating to about 2300–2000 BC and excavated in the 1930s.
Alaksandu
Alakšandu, also known as Alaksandu of Wilusa, was a Late Bronze Age king of Wilusa in western Anatolia who concluded a treaty with Muwatalli II around 1280 BC.
Alalakh Level VII tablets
The Alalakh Level VII tablets, or Alalah VII archive, are cuneiform tablets from a palace at Tell Atchana, Turkey, dating to the 17th century BC.
Alalakh tablets
The Alalakh tablets are two cuneiform archives excavated at Tell Atchana, ancient Alalakh, in Turkey, from the 18th or 17th and the 15th centuries BC, written chiefly in Akkadian.
Alalgar
Alalgar, also written Alaljar, is the second legendary antediluvian king of Eridu in the Sumerian King List, credited with a 36,000-year reign after Alulim; Berossus' Alaparos may correspond to him.
Alara (Kushite king)
Alara was a king of Kush in the first half of the eighth century BCE, the first known ruler of the Napatan dynasty buried at El-Kurru.
Alashiya
Alashiya, also written Alasiya or Alasia, was a Late Bronze Age kingdom generally identified with Cyprus, whose kings traded copper with Egypt as equals of the pharaoh.
Aleppo temple of the Storm God inscriptions
The Aleppo temple of the Storm God inscriptions are Hieroglyphic Luwian royal inscriptions of King Taita of Palistin, carved on the Aleppo citadel in the 11th century BC.
Aleppo Treaty
The Aleppo Treaty is a Hittite state treaty, cataloged as CTH 75, issued by Mursili II for his nephew Talmi-Šarruma, king of Aleppo, in the 13th century BC.
Alexander Helios
Alexander Helios, son of Cleopatra VII and Mark Antony, was born in 40 BC and proclaimed king of Armenia at the Donations of Alexandria in 34 BC.