Queen Neithhotep lived during the final phase of Egypt’s Predynastic age and was presumably the wife of King Narmer, the unifier of the “Two Lands”, which may have taken place in the thirtieth century BCE.
…
Nemausus (Νέμαυσος): Roman city in southern France, modern Nîmes.Origin
Coin from Nîmes: the crocodile stands for Egypt, where Augustus' soldiers had been…
Neo-Hittites or Syro-Hittites: modern name for the successor states of the Hittite Empire, which had desintegrated in the early twelfth century BCE.Demise of the Hittite Empire
…
Nepherites (Egyptian Nef'aurud): first pharaoh of the twenty-ninth, Mendesian dynasty (398-392/391).
Map of Lower Egypt (fifth-fourth centuries BCE)
In the fifth century…
Nepherites (Egyptian Nef'aurud): last pharaoh of the twenty-ninth, Mendesian dynasty, briefly ruling in 379/378 BCE.
Map of Lower Egypt (fifth-fourth centuries…
In 318, the Second Diadoch War broke out, in which the supporters of the two Macedonian kings (Philip Arridaeus and Alexander IV) were attacked by those commanders who wanted to become independent rulers: Cassander, Ptolemy of Egypt, and Antigonus Monophthalmus.…
Neriglissar: king of ancient Babylonia, ruled 559-556.The Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar died in 562 and was succeeded in by his son Amel-Marduk, who was almost immediately murdered and replaced by his brother-in-law Neriglissar, who is probably identical to an officer of Nebuchadnezzar…
Nero: emperor of the Roman world (r. 54-68).
Nero
Names:
15 December 37: Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus
25 February 50: Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus
13…
Nerva: emperor of the Roman world (96-98).
Nerva
Names:
30 November 30: Marcus Cocceius Nerva
18 September 96: Imperator Nerva Caesar Augustus
97: Imperator Nerva…
Nesactium: Histrian hillfort, Roman town, modern Vizače in Croatia.
Nesactium, Capitol
Although the hillfort of Nesactium has been inhabited since the Neolithic, the first…
Paphos (Greek Πάφος): name of two cities in the southwest of Cyprus, the Archaic and Classical town (also known as Kouklia) and the Hellenistic and Roman city (which is still called Paphos).
…
Nicaea (c.335- after 300): Macedonian lady, wife of Lysimachus.Relatives
Father: Antipater
Husband:Lysimachus
Children: Agathocles, Eurydice, Arsinoe I
Main deeds
c.335: Born as daughter of Antipater, the governor of Macedonia during the reign of Alexander the Great.
11 June 323: Death of Alexander in Babylon (text); outbreak of…