History

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Wahibra-Emakhet

Wahibra-Emakhet: Egyptian name of a Greek who lived in Egypt during the reign of the twenty-sixth ("Saite") dynasty. His sarcophagus is now in the Rijksmuseumn van Oudheden in Leiden, the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities. …

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Waldgirmes

Waldgirmes: village in Germany, site of an ancient Roman city. Model of Waldgirmes West of Waldgirmes, a small town in Germany, archaeologists…

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Wedjahor-Resne

Wedjahor-Resne (died c. 515 BCE): Egyptian admiral, instrumental to the Achaemenid conquest of Egypt. The naophorus of Wedjahor-Resne The following Egyptian inscription…

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Wen-Amun

Wen-Amun: Egyptian diplomat, famous for his misadventurous voyage to Byblos in the early eleventh century BCE. A king of the Twentieth Dynasty…

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Xenophon

Xenophon (c.430-c.354): Athenian soldier and historian, author of the Anabasis and Hellenica. He is one of the best-known and most widely read of all Greek authors. …

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