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Also Known As Neferneferuaten-Nefertiti
Flourished c.1400 BCE - c.1301 BCE

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bust of Nefertiti
Akhenaton and Nefertiti under the sun god Aton
Nefertiti
Nefertiti
Limestone statue of King Akhenaton and Queen Nefertiti of Egypt, standing side by side and holding hands, both wearing crowns and detailed pleated garments.
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Peribsen
king of Egypt
Sculpted head of Akhenaten, ancient Egyptian pharaoh, with elongated facial features and a tall, ornate headdress, displayed at the Alexandria National Museum.
Akhenaten
king of Egypt
Horemheb
Horemheb
king of Egypt
Ṣaqqārah: pyramid of Userkaf
Userkaf
king of Egypt
Ramses II
Ramses II
king of Egypt
Hatshepsut
Hatshepsut
ruler of Egypt
blunted pyramid
Snefru
king of Egypt
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Imhotep
Egyptian architect, physician, and statesman
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Ramses IV
king of Egypt
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Neuserre
king of Egypt
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Amenemope
Egyptian author
Ptahhotep on a palanquin, relief from his tomb.
Ptahhotep
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Ipuwer
Egyptian sage
Sir Flinders Petrie, detail of an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1900; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Flinders Petrie
British archaeologist
Ramakrishna
Ramakrishna
Hindu religious leader
Chaitanya
Chaitanya
Hindu mystic
Richard Lepsius.
Richard Lepsius
German Egyptologist
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Li Shaojun
Chinese Daoist
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Hui-yüan
Chinese Buddhist priest
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Nicholas Cabasilas
Greek theologian

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