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Karnak Cachette
The Karnak Cachette, or Cachette court, is a huge deposit of statues at Karnak found by Georges Legrain in 1903, the largest from a single context.
Karnak king list
The Karnak king list, or Karnak Tablet, is a list of 61 royal cartouches carved under Thutmose III at Karnak and now kept in the Louvre.
Karomama I
Karomama I was a Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Osorkon II of Egypt's 22nd Dynasty, known from a Karnak stela and reliefs at Bubastis in the 9th century BC.
Karomama II
Karomama II was a queen of ancient Egypt's Third Intermediate Period, the wife of King Takelot II and mother of Osorkon, High Priest of Amun, around 850 BC.
Karomama Meritmut
Karomama Meritmut, also called Princess Karomama C, was a God's Wife and Divine Adoratrice of Amun at Thebes during Egypt's 22nd Dynasty, best known for her gold-inlaid bronze statue in the Louvre.
Karum
A kārum, originally meaning quay or harbor, was the merchant district and trading colony that Assyrian traders from Assur kept in Anatolian cities from about 2000 to 1750 BCE.
Kasaqa
Kasaqa was a royal wife of Alara of Kush, the founder of the Napatan royal line, and the mother of Tabiry, who married the Kushite king Piye.
Kashshaya
Kashshaya, also spelled Kaššaya, was a princess of the Neo-Babylonian Empire and a daughter of King Nebuchadnezzar II, known only from cuneiform economic tablets, chiefly from Uruk, and proposed as the wife of Neriglissar.
Kashshu-nadin-ahhe
Kashshu-nadin-ahhe (Kaššu-nādin-aḫḫē) was a king of Babylon of the Second Sealand dynasty, the fifth dynasty in the Babylonian king lists, reigning briefly around 1006–1004 BC during a recorded famine.
Kashta
Kashta was a king of Kush, ruling from Napata in the mid-eighth century BC, and the first Kushite king whose power reached into Upper Egypt.
Kashta's intervention in Thebes
Kashta's intervention in Thebes was the peaceful extension of Kushite rule into Upper Egypt in the eighth century BC, through installing Amenirdis I as God's Wife of Amun.
Kashtiliash III
Kashtiliash III, also written Kaštiliašu III, was an early Kassite ruler of Babylonia of the 16th or 15th century BC, known from king lists and a canal inscription.
Kashtiliash IV
Kashtiliash IV, also known as Kaštiliašu IV, was a Kassite king of Babylon who reigned around 1232–1225 BCE and was defeated, captured, and deported to Assyria by Tukulti-Ninurta I.
Kaska
The Kaska, also written Kaška or Gašga, were tribal peoples of northern Anatolia and the Hittites' most persistent enemy from the fifteenth to the twelfth century BCE.
Kaska campaign of Hattusili III
The Kaska campaign of Hattusili III was a Hittite king's wars against the Kaska tribes of northern Anatolia, c. 1267–1237 BC, recovering the sacred city Nerik.
Kaska invasions of Hatti
The Kaska invasions of Hatti were recurring raids by the Kaška peoples of northern Anatolia against the Hittite Empire, first attested in the 15th century BC.
Kassite dynasty
The Kassite dynasty, also known as the Babylonian Third Dynasty or Dynasty of Karduniaš, ruled Babylonia for over four centuries, from about 1595 to 1155 BC.
Kassite language
Kassite, also called Cassite or Cossaean, is the poorly attested language of the Kassites, who ruled Babylon from about 1595 to 1155 BCE; no connected text survives.
Kassite takeover of Babylonia
The Kassite takeover of Babylonia, or fall of the First Babylonian Dynasty, was the Kassite seizure of Babylon after the Hittite sack of about 1595 BC.
Kassites
Kassites (Akkadian Kaššû), a people probably from the Zagros Mountains who ruled Babylonia from the 16th to 12th centuries BCE, ruling 36 kings over 576 years before Elamite raids ended their dynasty in 1150 BCE.
Kaštaritu
Kaštaritu (Kashtariti) was a city lord of Karkašši in the Central Zagros who led a coalition of Medes, Mannaeans, and Cimmerians in revolt against Assyria around 672 BCE.
Katuwa of Carchemish
Katuwa, also read Katuwas, was a ruler of Carchemish around 925 BC of the House of Suhi, known chiefly from long Hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions recording his buildings.
Kawa Stelae of Taharqa
The Kawa Stelae of Taharqa, also known as the Taharqo stelae from Kawa, are five royal stelae of the Kushite pharaoh Taharqa from Kawa, Sudan.
Kawab
Kawab, also written Ka-wab, was a prince of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, the eldest son of King Khufu and his intended heir, who died before his father.
Kawit
Kawit was an ancient Egyptian royal woman, a wife of King Mentuhotep II of the 11th Dynasty, buried in his mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahari, Thebes.
Kechi Beg phase
The Kechi Beg phase is a pre-Harappan ceramic phase of the Quetta valley in Balochistan, Pakistan, dated roughly 3800–3200 BC and defined by Kechi Beg ware.
Kehek
Kehek, also Qeheq, was a minor Libyan group of the New Kingdom, named among the Hittite coalition at Kadesh and as soldiers in an Egyptian army in Papyrus Anastasi I.
Kekheretnebti
Kekheretnebty, also written Khekeretnebty, was a princess of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty, a daughter of King Djedkare Isesi buried at Abusir and known from a limestone relief in the Brooklyn Museum.
Kelashin Stele
The Kelashin Stele, also spelled Kelishin, is a Urartian-Assyrian bilingual stone stele of kings Išpuini and Minua, dated to 820–810 BCE and now in the Urmia Museum.
Keliya
Keliya was a sukkal, or envoy, of the Mittanian king Tušratta, sent on diplomatic missions to pharaohs Amenhotep III and Akhenaten in the mid-14th century BC.