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Alexander Jannaeus's conquest of Gaza
Alexander Jannaeus's conquest of Gaza was the Hasmonean king's year-long siege and capture of the wealthy Arabian-trade port of Gaza around 96 BC, ending the city's independence.
Alexander's conquest of Egypt
Alexander's conquest of Egypt was the bloodless takeover of the Persian satrapy in late 332 BC by Alexander the Great, welcomed as a liberator after Issus.
Alexandria School of Medicine
The Alexandria School of Medicine was a Greek medical school in Ptolemaic Alexandria from the third century BC, where Herophilus and Erasistratus performed antiquity's only systematic human dissections.
Alexandrian civil war of 88 BC
The Alexandrian civil war of 88 BC was an uprising that expelled King Ptolemy X from Egypt, restored his brother Ptolemy IX, and ended with Ptolemy X's death.
Alexandrian War
The Alexandrian War, also called the Alexandrine Civil War, was the 48–47 BC siege in which Julius Caesar and Cleopatra VII defeated Ptolemy XIII in Alexandria.
Ali-ahum
Ali-ahum, formerly written Alāhum, was an Old Assyrian merchant who lived and traded at Kanesh (modern Kültepe) during the 19th century BC, lending silver and trading tin and textiles.
Aliseda treasure
The Aliseda treasure (Tesoro de Aliseda) is a hoard of orientalizing goldwork found at Aliseda, Extremadura, Spain, in 1920, now in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid.
Alla Amidas
Alla Amidas (Éllä Amida, እለ አሚዳ) was a king of the Kingdom of Aksum around 535–550, attested chiefly by rare gold coins die-linked to Kaleb.
Alliance of Hammurabi and Zimri-Lim
The alliance of Hammurabi and Zimri-Lim was the partnership between Babylon and Mari against Ešnunna and Elam, ending when Hammurabi destroyed Mari in the early 1760s BC.
Alliance of Zimri-Lim with Yamhad
The alliance of Zimri-Lim with Yamhad, sealed around 1775 BC, bound Zimri-Lim of Mari to Yarim-Lim of Aleppo through a dynastic marriage, shared worship of the god Haddu, and military support.
Alluwamna
Alluwamna was a Hittite Great King of the Middle Kingdom who reigned around 1460 BC, probably the son-in-law and adoptive heir of King Telepinu, known from fragmentary cuneiform tablets found at Hattusa.
Almaqah temple inscriptions of Dmt
The Almaqah temple inscriptions of Dmt are royal inscriptions in Ethiopian Early Sabaic naming the kings of Dʿmt, chiefly from Yeha, Ethiopia, dating to the 7th or 6th centuries BC.
Alshe
Alshe (Alše) was a Hurrian land on the Upper Tigris in the 2nd millennium BC, known from the mid-14th-century BC treaty in which Šuppiluliuma I conquered it and gave it to Antaratli.
Alulim
Alulim, also known as Aloros in Berossus, is the legendary antediluvian first king of Eridu in the Sumerian King List, which credits him with a 28,800-year reign.
Alyattes
Alyattes of Lydia, also known as Alyattes (Lydian Walwet), was a king of Lydia in western Anatolia, father of Croesus, who expanded Lydia into an empire and issued the first electrum coins.
Alyattes' destruction of Smyrna
Alyattes' destruction of Smyrna was the capture and demolition of Old Smyrna by the Lydian king Alyattes around 600 BC, described by Herodotus and confirmed by excavation.
Amada stela of Amenhotep II
The Amada stela of Amenhotep II is a large sandstone stela from Year 3 of Amenhotep II, still standing in the temple of Amada in Lower Nubia.
Amaniastabarqa
Amaniastabarqa, also spelled Amaniastabarqo, was a king of Kush of the Napatan period, buried in pyramid Nu. 2 at Nuri and conventionally assigned a reign of about 510–487 BC.
Amanibakhi
Amanibakhi was a king of Kush of the Napatan period, placed in the late 5th to 4th century BC between Akhraten and Nastasen; no dated text of his reign survives.
Amanikhabale
Amanikhabale was a king of Kush during the Meroitic period, known from a bronze cartouche found at Kawa and conventionally placed before Natakamani and Amanitore.
Amanikhalika
Amanikhalika is a kandake, or queen, of Kush, known only from the pyramid at Meroe (Beg. N 32) speculatively attributed to her, since Meroitic chronology rests on a relative sequence of royal pyramids.
Amanikhareqerem
Amanikhareqerem was a king of Kush in the Meroitic period, now dated to the late 1st century AD and known from inscribed objects and temples at el-Hassa and Naga.
Amanikhatashan
Amanikhatashan was a kandake, or ruling queen, of Kush at Meroë who reigned in the 1st or 2nd century CE, conventionally c. 62–c. 85 CE.
Amanimalel
Amanimalel, also spelled Amanimalil, was a queen of Napata in Kush who flourished in the 7th century BC, presumed consort of King Senkamanisken and known from two statues, one found at Gebel Barkal in 1916.
Amaninatakilebte
Amaninatakilebte was a king of Kush of the Napatan dynasty, ruling in the sixth century BC between Analmaaje and Karakamani and buried in a pyramid at Nuri.
Amanineteyerike
Amanineteyerike, also written Aman-nete-yerike, was a king of Kush who reigned in the late fifth century BC and left inscriptions at Kawa and a pyramid at Nuri.
Amanipilade
Amanipilade is the name attached to the last kandake, or ruling queen, of Kush, ruling from Meroe in what is now Sudan until the city was deserted around 350 CE.
Amanirenas
Amanirenas, also known as Amanirena, was a kandake, or queen, of Kush who reigned from about 40 to 10 BC and led the war against Roman-occupied Egypt.
Amanishakheto
Amanishakheto was a ruling queen of Kush around the turn of the era, best known for the gold treasure dug from her pyramid at Meroe in the 1830s.
Amanislo
Amanislo was a king of Kush in the early Meroitic period, ruling around 260 to 250 BC between Arkamani-qo and Amanitekha, and buried in a pyramid at Meroë.