Mekhtemweskhet II

Mekhtemweskhet II was a royal woman of the 26th Dynasty. The  wife of Psamtik I (664-610  B.C.E.),  she was the girl of Harsiese, the high priest of Heliopolis, and was plausibly the mother of Necho II (610-595 B.C.E.), Psamtik I's inheritor. Mehtemweskhets girl was  Nitocris (2), the God's Wife Of Amun. Mekhtemweskhet was prestigious with a tomb chapel at Karnak, on with Nitocris.

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·        Amarna Letters
·        Mekhenet
·        Khuy
·        Amduat
·        Kites
·        Mekhtemweskhet I

Mekhtemweskhet I

Mekhtemweskhet I was a royal woman of the Twenty-first Dynasty. She was the wife of Shoshenq, a Libyan military commandant  at  Bubastis, and  the  mother  of  Osochor (984-978  B.C.E.),  Siamun (978-959  B.C.E.), and Shoshenq I (945-924 B.C.E.). She also had other son, Nimlot.  Mekhtemweskhet  was a Libyan noblewoman, a member of the strong class of the Meshwesh, the Libyan ranking clan.

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·        Amarna Letters
·        Mekhenet
·        Khuy
·        Amduat
·        Kites

Kites

Kites were Egyptian women who were hired or pressed into service during funerals to accompany and greet the coffins of the gone when they were taken to the necropolises. Professional mourners, the kites roared and evidenced their grief at each funeral. They are described in some renditions of the Book Of The Dead.

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·        Neferheteperes (Princess)
·        Meketre
·        Khusebek
·        Amarna Letters
·        Mekhenet
·        Khuy

Amduat

The hieroglyphic
of Amduat

Amduat or Amtuat was a mortuary text depicted on the walls in the tomb of Tuthmosis III (1479-1425 B.C.E.) in the Valley of the kings in Thebes, the  Amduat, Book of  that  which  is  in  the  Hell,  shows  the nightly journey of the god Ra, a epitome of the sojourn required of the gone.

1st and 2nd oclock
night in the Amduat

The time is 3,
from tomb (KV34)

The Amduat is divided into 12 segments, doing fields  or caverns, and traces  the pathway into the earth that  parts at  the gateway of  the west horizon. The text contains numerous adventures and rags but ends in spiritual repurchase and the attainment of heaven.

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·        Neferheteperes (Princess)
·        Meketre
·        Khusebek
·        Amarna Letters
·        Mekhenet
·        Khuy

Khuy

Khuy was the father-in-law of King Pepi I (2289-2255 B.C.E.). Khuy was a Nomarch and the father of Ankhnesmery-Re (1) and (2), who become Pepi I's checks and the mothers of the heritors. His son, Djau, answered as counsel and adviser for Pepi I and Pepi II.

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·        Meketre
·        Khusebek
·        Amarna Letters
·        Mekhenet

Mekhenet

Mekhenet was the Egyptian address of the solar bark of the God Ra, practiced during his sojourn direct the sky.

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·        Meketre
·        Khusebek
·        Amarna Letters

Amarna Letters

Amarna Letters

Amarna Letters, a collecting of agreement spanning the reigns  of  Amenhotep III (1391-1353  B.C.E.), Akhenaten (1353-1335 B.C.E.), and into the first year of Tutankhamuns rule (1333-1323  B.C.E.),  these were learned  in  the  ruins  of  Akhenaten's capital  of Amarna in  1887,  taken  from  a  site  described  the  Place  of the Letters of the Pharaohs. Some 382 cuneiform tablets constitute the body of the assembling, written in the old Babylonian accent of the Akkadians, the lingua franca of the  territory at  the  time.  This  adopted  language  used altered  Egyptian  and  Syrian  terms  as  well.  The  letters take  diplomatic  texts  that  reflect  the  switching  trade and military exploits of the era. They are actually representations of proportionateness between noted kingdoms, providing insights into commitments, protocol, pacts, vassal status,  and  the  ever-changing  lands  of  competing empires.

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·        Meketre
·        Khusebek

Khusebek

The Stele of Khusebek

Khusebek was a military  official  of the Twelfth Dynasty. He answered Senwosret III (1878-1841 B.C.E.) as a commander of troops. Khusebek kept company Senwosret III on  punitive  campaigns  in  Syria  and  in  Nubia (modern Sudan).  His  mortuary  Stela heralds  his  career  and honors, particularizations the military causes of his time. The stella was discovered at Abydos.

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·        Neferheteperes (Princess)
·        Meketre

Meketre

The hieroglyphic of Meketre

The Ancient Egyptian official Meketre was chancellor and high custodian during the rule of Mentuhotep II, Mentuhotep III and maybe Amenemhat I, in the Middle Kingdom.

Meketre is first genuine in a rock dedication in the Wadi Shatt el-Rigala. Here he bears the simple title sealer. The inscription is dated to year 41 of king Mentuhotep II. On rests from the mortuary temple of the very king in Deir el-Bahari Meketre takes the title of chancellor and was evidently advertised in the meantime, succeeding Kheti. The same title was learned on a statue in Meketre's tomb while on relief fragmentizes in the tomb he held the important title of high custodian. The tomb (TT280) is located in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, section of the Theban Necropolis, and lies next to a large, incomplete royal tomb which was originally ascribed to king Mentuhotep III and, afterward new researchs, to Amenemhat I. Therefore, Meketre most future died under the latter king.

Chancellor Méketre watch
the counting of his cattle

Meketre's tomb TT280 contained some wooden replicas, representing the daily activities and life in Ancient Egypt, together with statuettes of ships and cattle were, miniature edifices and gardens.

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·        Amara
·        Neferheteperes (Princess)

Neferheteperes (Princess)

Neferheteperes (c. 2566-2558 BC) princess (Queen?) of Fourth Dynasty, Old Kingdom. Neferheteperes was the girl of King Djedefre, the replacement of King Khnum-Khufu. It has been speculated that she was besides a queen, the mother of King Userkaf, the abandon of the Fifth Dynasty, whose mother bore the same name. If this were the face, she would be specially significant in the publicity of the solar religion, which gone markedly more important in the Fifth Dynasty under the influence of the priests of Heliopolis. A story, current in the late Old Kingdom, ascribed the fatherhood of the first pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty to the god Ra by a mortal woman, Radjedet. Part of a statue of Neferheteperes was learned at Abu Roash.

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·        Khunianupu
·        Amara

Amara

Stela at Amara

Amara was a fortified site about Wadi Halfa on the Nile in Nubia, modern  Sudan,  Amara  was  launched  by  Seti I (1306-1290 B.C.E.). There are two settlements involved in Amara,  on  the  eastern  and  western  relies  of  the  river. Amara West was a vast Fortress complex with introducing walls  and  defences. Amara  East dates to the Meroitic Period (c. 300 B.C.E.350 A.D.). The rests of a Ramessid temple, likely erected by Ramesses II (1290-1224 B.C.E.), and a necropolis were discovered here.

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·        Meketaten
·        Khons
·        Khunianupu

Khunianupu

Eloquent Peasant, the famous sage of the First Intermediate Period. Khunianupu knew in the rule of Khety II (2100 B.C.E.). accepting endured harsh intervention at the hands of an functionaries son, Khunianupu petitioned the Egyptian court system for correct, eventually  coming to the attention of Khety II. The Eloquent Peasant, as he was called, was invited to the court and observed as a sage. Khunianupu received a generous judgment and was asked to address his  associate  Egyptians. His  admonitions about honor and justice  were discovered in four New Kingdom (1550-1070 B.C.E.) papyri.

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·        Meketaten
·        Khons