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Khasekhemwy's suppression of the northern revolt
Khasekhemwy's suppression of the northern revolt was a late Second Dynasty campaign ending Egypt's civil conflict, recorded on statue bases with tallies of 47,209 and 48,205 slain.
Khaset (nome)
Khaset was the sixth nome, or province, of Lower Egypt in ancient Egypt, bearing the Mountain bull emblem and centered on its capital Khasu, the Greek Xois.
Khawlan
Khawlan (Ḫwln) was a tribe and territory attested in pre-Islamic Yemen inscriptions from the fourth century BC to 547 CE, around Ṣirwāḥ and the highlands.
Khawy
Khawy was a guardian, an official in charge of stores and equipment, in the workmen's community of Deir el-Medina under Ramesses II in Egypt's 19th Dynasty.
Khay (vizier)
Khay was a vizier of ancient Egypt under Ramesses II, holding the equivalent of a prime minister's office from about year 26 to year 45 of the reign.
Khedebneithirbinet
Khedebneithirbinet, also written Khedebe-Neith-Ir-Binet, is an ancient Egyptian royal woman usually identified as a wife of the pharaoh Nectanebo II, though her dynasty is disputed.
Khendjer
Userkare Khendjer was a king of Egypt's 13th Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period, reigning around 1764–1759 BC and buried in the only completed 13th Dynasty pyramid, at South Saqqara.
Khenemet
Khenemet (Khnumet or Khnumit) was an Egyptian princess of the 12th Dynasty, probably a daughter of Amenemhat II, buried in an undisturbed tomb at Dahshur.
Khenemetneferhedjet I
Khenemetneferhedjet I, also called Weret, was a Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian queen, wife of pharaoh Senusret II and probably the mother of Senusret III, buried with a pyramid at Dahshur.
Khenemetneferhedjet II
Khenemetneferhedjet II, also called Khnemetneferhedjet II or Weret II, was an Egyptian queen consort, probably the principal wife of King Senwosret III of the 12th Dynasty.
Khenemetneferhedjet III
Khenemetneferhedjet III was a royal woman of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty, identified in one reconstruction as a wife of Amenemhat III and buried inside his pyramid at Dahshur.
Khenmes
Khenmes was a high official of ancient Egypt who held the office of vizier during the Thirteenth Dynasty, associated with King Sekhemkare Amenemhat V in the early part of that dynasty.
Khenmet
Khenmet, also written Khnumet, was a Twelfth Dynasty Egyptian royal woman, probably a daughter of Amenemhat II, whose intact tomb with a gold diadem was found at Dahshur in 1895.
Khensa
Khensa is a Kushite royal woman of the early Napatan period, the era of King Piye, whose conquest of Egypt laid the foundations of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty around 747–716 BC.
Khentetka
Khentetka, also written Khentetenka, was a queen of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, a wife of King Djedefre and mother of at least three of his sons.
Khenthap
Khenthap, also written Khent-hap, was a royal woman of Egypt's early First Dynasty, named in the annals stone as the mother of King Djer around 3050 BC.
Khentika Ikhekhi
Khentika called Ikhekhi was a vizier of ancient Egypt in the early Sixth Dynasty, serving under Teti and probably Pepi I, buried in a mastaba at Saqqara.
Khentkaus I
Khentkaus I, also written Khentkawes, was an Egyptian queen of the late Fourth and early Fifth Dynasty around 2500 BC, whose two-stepped Giza tomb was called the fourth pyramid of Giza.
Khentkaus II
Khentkaus II was a queen of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty, the wife of King Neferirkare Kakai and mother of the kings Raneferef and Nyuserre, known from her pyramid complex at Abusir.
Khentkaus III
Khentkaus III, also known as Khentakawess III, was a previously unknown queen of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty, identified in 2015 from inscriptions in a tomb at Abusir.
Khenut
Khenut was a queen consort of Egypt's Fifth Dynasty, a wife of King Unas, buried in a double mastaba with queen Nebet at North Saqqara.
Khepri
Khepri (Kheprer, Khepera) is the ancient Egyptian morning-sun god, depicted as a scarab beetle or scarab-headed man; his name means 'he who comes into being'. Unlike Ra (midday) and Atum (evening), he had no dedicated cult, but scarab amulets invoked him for rebirth.
Kherei
Kherei of Xanthos was a Lycian dynast of Xanthos in southwestern Anatolia during the late fifth and early fourth century BC, known from inscriptions and his silver coinage.
Kheriga
Kheriga (Lycian Χeriga, Greek Gergis) was a dynast of Xanthos in Lycia who ruled around 440 to 400 BC and is known chiefly from the Inscribed Pillar of Xanthos.
Kheti (treasurer)
Kheti, also spelled Khety, was a royal treasurer of Egypt's 11th Dynasty serving King Mentuhotep II around 2051–2000 B.C., known from his large tomb at Deir el-Bahari.
Kheti (vizier)
Kheti, also rendered Khety, was a vizier of Egypt's 12th Dynasty under Amenemhat III, second only to the king in the state hierarchy, with an office at Lahun near the king's pyramid at Hawara.
Khety (Herakleopolitan king)
Khety, in Greek Achthoes, is the family name of the royal house that ruled Egypt from Herakleopolis during Dynasties 9 and 10 of the First Intermediate Period.
Khety (nomarch of Asyut)
Khety I was a nomarch, or provincial governor, of Asyut during the First Intermediate Period, serving the Herakleopolitan Tenth Dynasty and owning rock-cut Tomb V at Asyut.
Khety (nomarch of the Oryx nome)
Khety was a nomarch of the 16th (Oryx) Upper Egyptian nome in the late 11th Dynasty of Egypt, buried in tomb BH17 at Beni Hassan, known for its 122 pairs of wrestlers.
Khirbet Beit Lei graffiti
The Khirbet Beit Lei graffiti are Hebrew inscriptions carved in a burial cave at Khirbet Beit Lei in the southern Shephelah of Judah, first published in 1963.