Tutankhamun

Tutankhamun

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Nebkheperure Tutankhamun (alternately spelled with "Tutenkh-", "-amen", "-amon"), Egyptian ', was a Pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty (ruled 1333...

Philodemus

male
Philodemus of Gadara (in Greek) (Gadara, Coele-Syria, c. 110 BCE-probably Herculaneum c. 40/35 BCE) was an Epicurean philosopher and poet who...
Amenemhat III

Amenemhat III

male
Amenemhat III (c. 1860 BC-1814 BC) was a pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt. He ruled from 1860 BC to 1814 BC, and is regarded as the greatest...
Georg Ebers

Georg Ebers

male, deceased (1898)
Georg Moritz Ebers (Berlin, March 1, 1837 - Tutzing, Bavaria, August 7, 1898), German Egyptologist and novelist, discovered the Egyptian medical...

Ahmes

male
Ahmes (more accurately "Ahmose") was an Egyptian scribe who lived during the Second Intermediate Period. A surviving work of Ahmes is part of the...
Adolf Erman

Adolf Erman

male, deceased (1937)
Johann Peter Adolf Erman (October 31, 1854 - June 26, 1937) was a renowned Egyptologist and lexicographer; born in Berlin, the son of Georg Adolf...
Senusret III

Senusret III

male
Khakhaure Senusret III (also written as Senwosret III or Sesostris III) was a pharaoh of Egypt. He ruled from 1878 BC to 1839 BC, and was the fifth...
Cai Lun

Cai Lun

male, deceased (121)
Cai Lun (ca. AD 50-121), courtesy name Jingzhong (敬仲), was a Chinese eunuch, who is conventionally regarded as the inventor of paper and the pape...

Arthur Hunt

male, deceased (1934)
Arthur Surridge Hunt (1871-1934) was an English papyrologist. He spent many seasons in Egypt with Bernard Grenfell collecting papyri

Zenon

male
Zenon, son of "Agreophon", was a native of the Greek town of Caunus in lower Asia Minor. He moved to Philadelphia in Egypt and became a private...