Mehu

The hieroglyphic name of Mehu

Princely  formal of the 5th and 6th Dynasties. Mehu processed as vizier to Unis (2356-2323 B.C.E.) and Teti (2323-2291 B.C.E.). He is showed as being the son of Idut. Mehu  was entombed in a adopted tomb at Saqqara, near Unis's mortuary complex. A panel in the tomb describes the special owner.mastaba-shaped, the tomb had three chambers and a courtyard, with additional mud-brick  masonry. A stella was named, as well as eases, including one showing the trapping of birds.

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·        Kheruef

Kheruef

The hieroglyphic
name of Kheruef

Rests of the tomb of Kheruef

Kheruef was a palace formal of the Eighteenth Dynasty. He processed as the royal keeper of Amenhotep III (1391-1353 B.C.E.). Kheruef's main duties were concerned with the daily administrative functions of Queen Tiye, Amenhotep III's dynamic and powerful consort. His tomb at Dra-Abu El-Naga, on the western shore of Thebes, contains fine backups that showing his life and honors. Amenhotep II is showed in the backups, and there are scenes of Queen Tiye  and Akhenaten as a prince. A columned hall and black scenes as well grace Kheruefs tomb.

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Neferhotep III

The nebty name of Neferhotep III

Neferhotep III was one of the last rulers of the Thirteenth Dynasty. His date of rule is unknown. A stela in Karnak mentions his help to the temples and shrines of Thebes. He is suspicious to have broken the khepresh, the war crown made of electrum. This appears  to  be  the  first  reference  to  that particular style of royal  headgear. Neferhotep III  conducted military campaigns  against the Hyksos, but  the Asiatics were in full hold of their Delta territories by that time.

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Neferhotep I

The nebty name
of Neferhotep I

Neferhotep I was a King of the Thirteenth Dynasty, Middle Kingdom, c. 1740 BC. He was one of the marginally more winning and longerlasting of the Thirteenth Dynasty rulers, Neferhotep ruled for about nine years and established a pyramid for himself at El-Lisht. He may not have been of the royal note but he pulled the honor of succeeding geneses. Despite the doubtfulnesses of the times, Neferhotep observed contact with the Lebanon and Nubia, two rods of the Egyptian trading and smooth network. He paid direct attention to the cult of Osiris at Abydos, where he himself addressed the observances and sacred plays in reward of the god at the fetes which were essential features of the religious round in Abydos.

The Statue of Neferhotep I

He was peculiarly referred to ensure that the sacred ceremonies come the correct form, as instructed by the gods at the start of time.

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·        Khert-neter

Khert-neter

This term (Khert-neter) transforms as that which is beneath a god and was practiced in ancient Egypt to denote a cemetery or necropolis. Most cemetery areas had close patrons, gods who resided on upper cliffs and surveyed the tombs set in the region. Meresger, a goddess of Thebes, is an exercise of such cliff-dwelling gods overlooking the khert-neter.

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·        Alexander Balas (150-146 BC)

Alexander Balas (150-146 BC)

Alexander Balas

Alexander Balas (Ephiphanes) (fl. second century B.C.E.) King of Syria and Pergamum, modern Turkey He asked Ptolemy VI Philometor (180-164/163-145 B.C.E.) to care him in strong the stays of the crumbled Macedonian Empire. Alexander Balas slew Demetrius I Soter, the heir of the Syrian Seleucid Dynasty. When Demetrius II Nicator, the son of Demetrius I, met Alexander Balas in conflict, he revenged his fathers death. Alexander Balas had kept Egyptian hold and the favourable reception of the Senate of Rome until the fateful battle that ended his life.

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Alexander Aetolus

Alexander Aetolus was the greek poet of Alexandria. Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285-246 B.C.E.) determined Alexander  Aetolus  as  an  official  of  the  extended Library of Alexandria. The library was an institution noted for its vast archives that involved centuries of world history and the cultural accomplishment of many peoples. His project was to list and catalogue the tragic dramas domiciliate in the library. Alexander Aetoluss compositions are lost, although the title of one of his plays, Astragalistae, or The Dice Throwers, has survived. Alexanders closer poetic works are noted in  modern times only by fragments that have gone over the centuries.

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·        Khepresh
·        Neferhotep

Neferhotep

Neferhotep (Twelfth Dynasty, Middle Kingdom, c. 1850 BC) was a harpist employed in the household of Iky, the Overseer of Priests at Abydos. He was grossly fat; in one of his two surviving stelae, which were let to be placed in Ikys cenotaph, he is shown reach forward, in gluttonous anticipation, for the important pile of fruits, meat and sweetmeats which have been provided for his afterlife.

He has a second stela which gives an penetration into the course of a small Egyptians life around the start of the second millenary BC. Neferhotep was provided with the stela, which calls on the gods to be merciful to him, by his idolized friend, the Carrier of Bricks, Nebsumenu. The stela itself has been carved, not especially skilfully, by The Draughtsman Rensonbs son Sonbau.

Neferhotep is shown playing for the pleasure of his employer and his wife on their funerary stela. The offerings piled before them must have been a sore temptation.

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·        Khepresh

Khepresh

The hieroglyphic
name of Khepresh

khepresh was an ancient Egyptian royal headdress. It is likewise noted as the blue crown or war crown. New Kingdom pharaohs are often drawn wearing it in battle, but it was also frequently worn in ceremonies. It practiced to be called a war crown by many, but modern historians refrain from defining it thus.

No khepresh has been saw. located on ancient artistic representations, some Egyptologists have pondered that the khepresh was made of leather or tightened cloth addressed with a precise arrangement of hundreds of sequins, discs, bosses, or rings. Another opening is that the khepresh was braided like a basket, as the deshret (red crown) is noted to have been, from plant fiber such as grass, straw, flax, ribbon leaf, or reed. The regular array of circles on near and sculpted depictions of the crown may be an artistic idea of the hexangular holes in an open triaxial weave.[citation needed] As with many other royal crowns, a uraeus (cobra) was hooked to the front of the khepresh.

Tthe blue crown
of Egypt (Khepresh)

The Blue Crown, or War Crown, was described in hieroglyphs. The earliest known mention of the khepresh is on the stela Cairo JE 59635 [CG 20799] which dates to the dominate of pharaoh Neferhotep III, during the Second Intermediate Period. In this and other instances from the same era, the word is written with a determining that represents the cap crown, a lower and less close typecast of crown. Pictures of the khepresh from the dominate of Ahmose I, first king of the New Kingdom and the Eighteenth Dynasty, show a headgear that is taller than the cap crown and more angular than later forms of the khepresh. This crown continued to produce during the early Eighteenth Dynasty, attaining its best-known form in the reigns of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III.

The Khepresh
of Tutankamun

Amenhotep III wearing
the khepresh crown

After Amenhotep III's prevail  and peculiarly during the 18th and 19th Dynasties it came into fashion and was even took by some pharaohs as a essential crown. The crown ceased to be showed in the Kushite Dynasty (747 to 656 BCE).

During the New Kingdom, pharaohs were established with this crown in military portions. However, some scholars think that the crown was likewise meant to evoke the divine power of the pharaoh, and was thereby worn to religiously situate kings as manifestations of gods on earth.

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Alexander IV (323-311 BC)

The hieroglyphic
name of Alexander IV

Alexander IV (323-311 BC) was the ruler of Egypt and son of Alexander the extended He was the son of Alexander III the important and Rox- anne and ruled Egypt from 316 B.C.E. until his death. Alexander IV took the throne name Haa-ibre Setep-en-Amun, translated as Ra Heart Rejoices, Chosen of Amun. Alexander IV was born after the death of his father in 323 B.C.E. His uncle Philip III Arrhidaeus, reportedly a somewhat disputed half brother of Alexander the extended,  ruled  from 323 to 316  B.C.E., when he was murdered.

Alexander IV in a Coin

Ptolemy I served as satrap or regulator of Egypt for both Philip and Alexander. Roxanne, as queen, belike held  the post of regent for her son. In 304 B.C.E., Cassander, the Macedonian General of Europe, gone Alexander and Roxanne. Queen Olympias, the mother of Alexander the great, fell to the collaborators of Cassander at the like time. The royal house of Macedonia had been destroyed.

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Khepesh

The hieroglyphic
name of the Khepesh

Khepesh, the hooked sword used by the Egyptians in military causes in the New Kingdom (1550-1070  B.C.E.), the arm was  Hyksos in origin, entered by the Asiatic invaders.

Khepesh as a cow's thigh

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Alexander III (the essential) (356-323 BC)

The hieroglyphic name
of Alexander III

Alexander III the essential (d. c. 323 B.C.E.) Conqueror of Egypt in 332 B.C.E. and the ruler of the known world in his era. He was the  3rd king named Alexander in Macedonia, the son of Philip of Macedonia and Queen Olympias of Epirus. Born in Philips capital, Pellas, in 356  B.C.E., Alexander was tutored for 3 years, from the age of 13 to 16, by Aristotle. The great philosopher was at Alexanders face when the young prince taken the Macedonian throne in 336  B.C.E. Alexander had likewise been trained in military arts, in holding with the Macedonian tradition.

Statue of Alexander III

Two years later, Alexander gone a campaign against the  Persian  Empire  and  in  November  333  B.C.E., the Macedonian king and his wondrously taken army attempted the Persians assistant King Darius III Codoman at Granicus and  Issus. The  Persians  should  have  gained  the  battle  of Issus,  but  Macedonian  resolve  and  Alexanders  military insightfulness  insured  the  victory  for  the  Greeks.  Darius  III tried to make peace, but Alexander denied and went to Phoenicia,  where  he  conquered  the  city  of  Tyre  in  332. His get of this key situation ended Persias might on the Mediterranean coast. Alexander then conquered Palestine and  introduced  the Nile Valley.  In  the  light  of  332  B.C.E., Alexander entered Egypt, taking the territory as a full and worthy  prize. The  Persian satrap on the Nile stood  for a time  but  then  surrendered Egypt to the young conqueror. Aware of the fact  that  the Egyptians attended upon him as just another foreign tyrant, Alexander  courted  them  by  practicing their own sacred mechanisms. He went to the famous Oasis of Siwa in the Libyan Desert, where he called the Oracle of Amun. This was a shrine  sacred  to  the god Amun, who spoke to believers and  gave  responses  to  interviews  about  religious and state things. Alexander was held the true ruler of Egypt at Siwa Oasis, and word of Amun's recognition spread quickly throughout the land.

He cemented this acclamation by going to Memphis, the ancient capital, to be royal in the traditional manner, including the seal of approving of the Souls of Pe and the Souls of Nekhen. Throughout Egypt rumors spread that Alexander was the son of Nectanebo II, the ruler of Egypt  from  360  to  343  B.C.E. Queen  Olympias  was described as having had an affair with Nectanebo II, with Alexander leaving from their love. Alexanders Egyptian can  name  was  Mery-amun-Setepenre,  translated  as idolized of Amun, Chosen by Ra.

Alexander likewise founded a new capital for the Land of the  Two  Kingdoms  at  the  situation  of  a  small  village  addressed Rakhotis,  on  the  shore  of  the  Mediterranean  Sea.  This city, Alexandria, would become one of the major cultural centers  of  the  world  during  the  Ptolemaic  and  Roman Periods. Alexandria was based in the western Nile Delta and was supplied with an offshore causeway, connected to a small island to offer safe harbor for trading ships. In the spring of 331 B.C.E., Alexander debouched of Egypt,  leaving  two  Greek  governors  in require, Ptolemy  and  Cleomenes.  Cleomenes of Naukratis, a Greek  resident  of  Egypt,  shortly  took  charge  of  functions, completing Alexandria. Ptolemy, the son of Lagus, abode his time but had his own dreams for Egypt, getting Ptolemy I Soter. As  they  consolidated  Macedonian  control  over  Egypt,  Alexander  met  Darius III  at Gaugamela and  defeated him  once  again.  Darius  fled but  was  executed  by a  gone  ally.  Alexander conquered Babylon,  Ecbatana,  Persepolis,  and  Susa,  the important  Persian cities, and then marched  on  Medea.  He took  the  title  of  Basileus, the  great King, and entered India in 326 B.C.E.

His death in Babylon in June  323  B.C.E. begun a titanic struggle for control of his vast empire. Ptolemy I taken  Egypt  for  himself.  In a bold take, he and a picked cohort of vets rode hard to the north to tap  the  massive  funeral  advancement of Alexanders rests. He had been embalmed in honey and placed in a large  mausoleum on wheels  so  that  his consistence  could  be saw  and  publicly  venerated  by the people of his conquered field as he progressed toward the royal burial reason  in  Macedonia. Ptolemy I and his men  seized the body and set off for Alexandria, where the vanquisher was  put  into a crystal  coffin.  Alexander  the  important  was then reportedly buried under the joint of the Canopic Mode and the street of the Soma in Alexandria city.

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