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Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus
The Kahun Gynaecological Papyrus, also called the Kahun Medical Papyrus, is a Middle Kingdom Egyptian manuscript on women's health from about 1825 BC, held in the Petrie Museum in London.
Kaikhenet II
Kaikhenet II was a Fifth Dynasty provincial official of the 10th Upper Egyptian nome, buried in rock-cut tomb A2 at El-Hammamiya and titled Chief of the Ten of Upper Egypt.
Kalašma
Kalašma, also written Kalasma, was a land of northern Anatolia in the Late Bronze Age, northwest of the Hittite core area, attested in the annals of Muršili II.
Kalbum
Kalbum is a legendary king of Kish who appears in the Second Dynasty of the Sumerian King List as the son of Mamagal, credited with 195 or 132 years.
Kaleb of Axum
Kaleb of Axum, also known as Ella Asbeha, was a Christian king of the Aksumite kingdom who conquered the Himyarite kingdom in South Arabia around 525.
Kalibum
Kalibum is a legendary king of the First Dynasty of Kish, known only from the Sumerian King List, a later compilation that assigns him a symbolic 960-year reign.
Kalumum
Kalumum is a legendary king of Kish in the Sumerian King List, ninth ruler of its First Dynasty, with an attributed reign of 840 years.
Kamani (king of Carchemish)
Kamani, also rendered Kamanis, was a Luwian-speaking king of Carchemish in the early 8th century BC, who succeeded as a child under the regent Yariri.
Kamanis inscription
The Kamanis inscription, also called the Kamanis stele, is a set of Hieroglyphic Luwian texts of Kamani, son of Astiruwa, a ruler of the Neo-Hittite kingdom of Karkamiš around 790 BC.
Kamas-halta
Kamas-halta, whose name means "Kemosh is strength", was a king of Moab in the 7th century BC, known from Neo-Assyrian records including cylinder B of Ashurbanipal.
Kammanu
Kammanu was a Luwian-speaking Neo-Hittite kingdom of the Iron Age, centered on the royal city of Melid at Arslantepe near Malatya in eastern Turkey, until the Assyrian conquest of 712 BC.
Kammusu-nadbi
Kammusu-nadbi, also rendered Chemosh-nadab, was a king of Moab, the Iron Age kingdom east of the Dead Sea, who brought gifts to Sennacherib in 701 BC.
Kamose
Kamose, also known as Wadjkheperre Kamose, was the last pharaoh of the Theban Seventeenth Dynasty in the Second Intermediate Period, reigning about 1555-1550 BC and campaigning against the Hyksos king Apophis.
Kamose Stelae
The Kamose Stelae are two royal stelae of Theban king Kamose from Karnak, dated about 1555-1550 BCE, the main source for his war against the Hyksos.
Kandake
Kandake, rendered Candace by Greek and Roman writers, is the royal title borne by ruling queens of Meroitic Kush in what is now Sudan, from about 170 BCE into early centuries CE.
Kandalanu
Kandalanu was king of Babylonia under Assyrian suzerainty from 647 to 627 BC, appointed by Ashurbanipal after Shamash-shum-ukin's death; his 21-year reign anchors Neo-Babylonian chronology.
Kanefer (overseer of commissions)
Kanefer was a Fourth Dynasty official of Egypt's Old Kingdom who held the title overseer of commissions and was buried in mastaba G 1203 at Giza.
Kanephoros of Arsinoe
The kanephoros of Arsinoe, the "basket-bearer," was the eponymous priestess of Arsinoe II Philadelphos's cult in Alexandria from 269/268 BC, naming each year in dated documents.
Kantuzili
Kantuzili, also spelled Kantuzzili, was a Hittite commander and prince who served under King Mursili II, reigning roughly 1321–1295 BC, and is attested in the king's annals.
Kapara (king of Guzana)
Kapara, son of Hadianu, was an Aramaean king of Guzana at Tell Halaf in north-east Syria, builder of a famous basalt-relief palace in the 10th or 9th century BC.
Kapes
Kapes was a royal woman of ancient Egypt's 22nd Dynasty in the 9th century BC, known as the mother of King Osorkon II and attested chiefly through his monuments.
Kara-hardash
Kara-hardash (Kara-ḫardaš) was a Kassite king of Babylon, son of Burnaburiaš II and an Assyrian princess, killed by rebel Kassite troops in the 14th century BC.
Karagündüz inscriptions
The Karagündüz inscriptions are two Urartian royal basalt stelae from Karagündüz on Lake Erçek near Van, Turkey, dedicated to the god Haldi and held in the Van Museum.
Karaindash
Karaindaš was a Kassite king of Babylon in the late fifteenth century BC, known for a boundary treaty with Assyria and for introducing the title king of Karduniash.
Karanog inscriptions
The Karanog inscriptions, also known as the Meroitic inscriptions from Karanog, are funerary texts from Lower Nubia published by Francis Griffith in 1911 after his decipherment of Meroitic.
Karatepe bilingual
The Karatepe bilingual, also known as the Karatepe-Aslantaş inscription, is a Phoenician–Hieroglyphic Luwian inscription of the official Azatiwada, carved at Karatepe in Cilicia in the late 8th century BC and pivotal to deciphering Hieroglyphic Luwian.
Karimala
Karimala, also read Katimala, was a queen of Nubia of the Twenty-First Dynasty, around the eleventh to tenth centuries BC, who took control of Lower Nubia and is known from a single inscription at Semna.
Karkamani
Karkamani was a king of Kush of the Napatan period, reigning from about 519 to 510 BC at Napata and buried in pyramid Nu. 7 at Nuri in northern Sudan.
Karkisa
Karkisa, also written Karkiya, is a land or people of western Anatolia known from Late Bronze Age Hittite texts and the Egyptian Kadesh list; its location, whether Caria or Mysia, remains disputed.
Karnak
Karnak (Ipet-Sut), vast ancient Egyptian temple complex at Thebes, modern Luxor, dedicated to Amun-Ra; 134-column hypostyle hall, Opet Festival avenue to Luxor Temple, CFEETK-managed UNESCO site.