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Magas (son of Ptolemy III)
Magas of Egypt was a prince of Ptolemaic Egypt, the youngest son of Ptolemy III and Berenice II, killed in the purge that opened Ptolemy IV's reign.
Mago (admiral, fl. 279 BC)
Mago was a Carthaginian admiral who in 279 BC brought a fleet of 120 ships to Rome to dissuade the Romans from making peace with King Pyrrhus of Epirus.
Mago (agronomist)
Mago of Carthage was a Carthaginian agronomist who wrote a twenty-eight-book agricultural treatise in Punic, translated into Latin on the Senate's orders after Carthage fell in 146 BC.
Mago (Barcid)
Mago, also known as Mago Barca, was a Carthaginian general of the Second Punic War, the youngest brother of Hannibal, who fought at Cannae and died in 203 BC.
Mago (officer of Hannibal)
Mago the Samnite was a Carthaginian officer and childhood friend of Hannibal who held chief command in Bruttium, ambushing the Roman consul Gracchus in 212 BC and defending Locri in 208 BC.
Mago I of Carthage
Mago I of Carthage, also Magon, was a Carthaginian military commander who dominated the city around 550–530 BC, credited with founding its military power and the Magonid dynasty.
Mago II of Carthage
Mago II of Carthage was a Carthaginian commander and suffete who fought Dionysius I of Syracuse in Sicily, dying in battle in the early 4th century BC.
Mago III of Carthage
Mago III of Carthage was a fourth-century BC Carthaginian ruler of the Magonid family, traditionally dated 375–344 BC, who died by suicide after defeat by Timoleon.
Mago in Liguria
Mago in Liguria (205–203 BC) was a Carthaginian campaign of the Second Punic War: Mago Barca, Hannibal's youngest brother, landed near Genua to raise Ligurian and Gallic allies.
Mago's reorganization of the Carthaginian army
Mago's reorganization of the Carthaginian army, also called Mago's reforms, is the traditional account of Carthage abandoning citizen armies for conscripted subjects and hired mercenaries.
Magonid dynasty
The Magonids, also Magonides, were a Carthaginian family said to hold great power at Carthage from the 6th to the 4th centuries BCE, founded by the commander Mago.
Maharbal
Maharbal was a Carthaginian cavalry officer under Hannibal in the Second Punic War, credited by Livy with telling Hannibal after Cannae that he knew how to win a victory but not how to use one.
Maia (nurse of Tutankhamun)
Maia was the royal wet nurse of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun in the late Eighteenth Dynasty, known chiefly from her rock-cut tomb at Saqqara, rediscovered in 1996 and opened to the public in 2015.
Maiherpri
Maiherpri, also written Maiherperi, was an 18th Dynasty Egyptian official, probably of Nubian descent, buried in tomb KV36 in the Valley of the Kings, found intact in 1899.
Main Deposit
The Main Deposit is a cache of temple objects found below floor level at Hierakonpolis in Upper Egypt, excavated by Quibell and Green in 1897–99.
Maktar and Mididi inscriptions
The Maktar and Mididi inscriptions are a corpus of about 97 Neo-Punic stelae from Tunisia, dating from the reign of Augustus to the second century AD.
Malaqaye
Malaqaye, also spelled Malakaye, was a queen of the Kushite royal house of the Napatan period, known from a gilded silver funerary mask found at Nuri, Pyramid 59, in Sudan.
Malchishua
Malchishua, in Hebrew Malkishua, was a son of King Saul and Ahinoam daughter of Ahimaaz. The Philistines killed him at Mount Gilboa alongside Saul, Jonathan, and Abinadab.
Malchus (general)
Malchus, also known as Malchus of Carthage, was a Carthaginian general of the mid-6th century BC who extended Carthaginian power over Africa and Sicily before being banished and executed.
Malchus's campaign in Sicily
Malchus's campaign in Sicily was a Carthaginian expedition of about 550 BC, led by Malchus, who subdued part of the island before a later defeat in Sardinia.
Malchus's campaigns in Sardinia
Malchus's campaigns in Sardinia were a Carthaginian military expedition in the 6th century BC, led by the general Malchus, that ended in a severe defeat against the island's inhabitants.
Maletaral
Maletaral, also spelled Malaterata, is a royal woman of the Napatan kingdom of Kush, attested as king's mother and king's sister, with pyramid Nu. 25 at Nuri attributed to her.
Malewiebamani
Malewiebamani was a king of Kush of the Napatan period who reigned from about 463 to 435 BC, succeeding Nasakhma and buried at Nuri in pyramid 11.
Malkikarib Yuha'min
Malkikarib Yuha'min was a Himyarite king who ruled Saba' and dhu-Raydan from about 375 to 400 CE, in whose reign royal inscriptions turned to worship of Rahmanan.
Malnigal
Malnigal, also written Malnigalla, was a Babylonian princess who married the Hittite king Šuppiluliuma I and held the office of Tawananna in the 14th century BC.
Malonaqen
Malonaqen was a king of Kush in the Napatan period, reigning about 555 to 542 BC and buried in pyramid no. 5 at Nuri in Sudan.
Maloqorebar
Maloqorebar, also transliterated Maleqorobar, was a ruler of the kingdom of Kush, no. 73 in the Meroitic king list, with a conventional reign of AD 266–283.
Malotaral
Malotaral, also spelled Maletaral or Malaterata, is a royal woman of the Napatan kingdom of Kush, known only from funerary evidence at Nuri in Sudan.
Mamagal
Mamagal is a legendary king of Kish in the Sumerian King List's Second Dynasty, father of Kalbum, assigned a reign of 360 or 420 years.
Manana (ruler of Kish)
Manana was an early Old Babylonian ruler of the Mesopotamian city of Kish, eponym of the Manana Dynasty, petty kings over Kish and Damrum known only from private archives.