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Cleopatra Selene (40 BC-11/7 AD)
Cleopatra Selene was the daughter of Marcus Antonius and Queen Cleopatra VII. Selene was born in 40 BC with her similitude brother, Alexander Helios. She was seized by Augustus in 30 BC and exposed in...
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Cleopatra Thea (165-121 BC)
Cleopatra TheaCleopatra Thea was the daughter of Ptolemy VI and Cleopatra II. She was married in 150 BC to the Syrian fake Alexander I Balas, who was set up as Seleucid swayer with the tending of...
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Cleopatra Tryphaena (d. 112 BC)
Cleopatra Tryphaena was the daughter girl of Ptolemy VIII and Cleopatra III. She married her first cousin, Seleucid Antiochus VIII Grypus, son of Demetrius II and Cleopatra Thea, but he faced a rival...
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Ancient Egypt Timeline
LATE PREDYNASTIC PERIOD C. 3000 B.C.E.ScorpionNarmerEARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD 2920–2575 B.C.E.First Dynasty 2920–2770 B.C.E.Aha (Menes)DjerDjet (Wadj)Den’Adjib (Anedjib)SemerkhetQa’aSecond Dynasty...
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The Amarna Tombs
The road to the Amarna TombsRoyal Tomb (Tall El-Amarna)Northern Tombs (Tall El-Amarna)Tomb of Ahmose(Tomb 3)Tomb of Ay (Tomb 25)Tomb of Huya (Tomb 1)Tomb of Mahu (Tomb 9)Tomb of Meri-Re I (Tomb 4)Tomb...
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Tomb of Huya (Tomb 1)
Inside the Tomb of HuyaHuya was the keeper of Akhenaten's mother, Queen Tiye, and relief scenes to the right and left of the charm to his tomb present Tiye eating with her son and his home. On the...
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Tomb of Meryra II (Tomb 2)
Inside the Tomb of Meryra IIThe Tomb of Merya II is the royal sepulcher of the Ancient Egyptian amazing Meryre II. Famous as Amarna Tomb 2, it is placed in the northern side of the wadi that parts the...
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Tomb of Mahu (Tomb 9)
Tomb of MahuMahu was a police official of the 18th Dynasty. He served Akhenaten (1353-1335 B.C.E.) as a air force officer of police at Amarna, the capital of the reign. Mahu may have...
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Barbara Georgina Adams (1945-2002)
In June of 2002, archaeology and especially Egyptian archaeology lost one of its stars in the early death of Barbara Georgina Adams who was born on February 19, 1945 in Hammersmith, west of London, to...
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Johan David Akerblad (1763-1819)
Johan David Akerblad, 6 May 1763, Stockholm 7 February 1819, Rome, was a Swedish diplomatist and orientalist. In 1778 he started his studies of classical and oriental languages at the University of...
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Cyril Aldred (1914-1991)
Cyril Aldred was born in Fulham, London, the son of Frederick Aldred and Lilian Ethel Underwood (Aldred) the 6th of 7 youngsters (5 boys, 2 girls).Aldred seen Sloane School, in Chelsea, and taken...
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James Peter Allen
James Peter Allen who was born in 1945, is an American Egyptologist, specializing in language and religion. He was curator of Egyptian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1990 up to 2006.James...
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List of Ramesses II' Children
The Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II ( 1279–1213 BCE) had a large number of children: between 48 and 50 sons, and 40 to 53 daughters whom he had depicted on several monuments. Ramesses seemingly...
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Magas
Magas, king of CyreneMagas was a royal prince of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. He was the son of Ptolemy III Euergetes I (246-221 B.C.E.) and Queen Berenice III. Magas did not inherit the throne,...
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Napata
Napata in hieroglyphicNapata pyramidsFrom the 19th Dynasty on, the town of Napata in Nubia became an serious center of Nubian civilization and finally the capital of Upper Nubia (which was likewise...
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Kahotep
Kahotep was a craftsman, basic Dynasty, Archaic Period, c. 3000 BC. He was a journeyman working during the rule of King Den, the fourth king of the 1st dynasty. On the kings death Kahotep was devoted...
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Abbott Papyrus
Abbott PapyrusAbbott Papyrus is a historical document used as a record of the Twentieth Dynasty (1196-1070 B.C.E.) in conjunction with the Amherst Papyrus and accounts of court proceedings of...
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Magat
Magat was a symbol of the religious ladder upon which the god Osiris come up into Eden in cultic customs, the magat was used in mortuary rituals and was learned for a powerful insignia for raising the...
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Kaihep
Kaihep was a nomarch from the 6th dynasty of the old kingdom (2287-2278 BC). Kaihep was the first of the nomarchs of Akhmim, the capital of the ninth, Panopolite nome of Upper Egypt. He was set during...
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Abdiashirta
Amurru letter to pharaohAbdiashirta is the swayer of Amurru, modern Syria. Abdiashirta reigned over Amurru, famous today as a part of Syria, and was a vassal of Amenhotep III (1391-1353...
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