Abu Ghurob
A New Kingdom site, situated in Middle Egypt at the edge of the Faiyum, 3.75 kilometers (about 2.5 miles) due west of the point where the Bahr Yussuf branch of ...
Abu Rowash
Located in the continuation of Gebel el-Ghigiga, the western fringe of the Nile Valley (30°2′N, 31°4′E). The archaeological area of Abu Rowash, which belongs to the very northern part of ...
Abusir
An archaeological locality on the western bank of the Nile River, approximately 25 kilometers (15 miles) southwest of Cairo (29°56′N, 31°13′E). Its name was derived from the Egyptian Per-Usire, in ...
Abydos
A site, ancient ʒbḏw, situated in the ancient Thinite nome (eighth Upper Egyptian nome) in southern Egypt (26°11′N 31°55′E). On the western side of the Nile, the site is on ...
Administration
This is a three-part article covering State Administration, Provincial Administration, and Temple Administration.Administration is the socioeconomic institution installed to control resources within ...
Administrative Texts
Result from a selective deployment of writing in control of resources on estates. Most surviving ancient Egyptian administrative texts derive from the two spheres of the state economy: royal domain ...
A-group
The archaeological designation for an indigenous Nubian culture; the term “A-Group” was introduced by George A. Reisner (1910) in his chronological model of the Nubian cultures, but it came into ...
Ahmose-Nefertari
Wife of the founder of the eighteenth dynasty, New Kingdom, Ahmose (r.1569–1545bce), and the mother of his son and successor, Amenhotpe I (r.1545–1525bce). She died at some point during the ...
Akh
(Eg., ʒḫ),a term that occurs regularly throughout ancient Egyptian secular and religious texts, represented by the crested ibis hieroglyph. The akh-concept appears to have no intrinsic relation to ...
Amenemhat of Beni Hasan
(fl. 1950 bce).Amenemhat, the short form of whose name was Ameni, was the “Great Overlord of the Oryx nome” (the sixteenth Egyptian nome [province]) and the owner of tomb ...
