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Hiarbas

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Algeria

c. 120 BCE – 81 BCE (~39 years old)

Numidian King who allied with the Roman Marian faction against Sulla, ruling Numidia until defeated and captured by young general Pompey the Great in 81 BCE.

Bulla Regia, Tunisia

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Massiva

ⵎⵙⵉⴼⴰ

Algeria

c. 140 BCE – 110 BCE (~30 years old)

Numidian prince, grandson of Masinissa, whose assassination on the streets of Rome by Jugurtha's agents caused Roman fury and triggered the Jugurthine War.

Cirta (Constantine), Algeria

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Mastanabal

ⵎⵙⵜⵏⴱⵍ

Algeria

c. 190 BCE – 140 BCE (~50 years old)

Cultured King of Numidia and son of Masinissa, father of Jugurtha and Gauda, celebrated for winning the Panathenaic games in Athens and patronizing Greek philosophy and law.

El Khroub (Constantine), Algeria

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Georgios I of Makuria

Γεώργιος

Sudan

c. 815 CE – c. 887 CE (~72 years old)

9th-century King of the Christian Nubian kingdom of Makuria who unified Nubia, patronized magnificent cathedral frescoes, and personally traveled on a historic diplomatic mission to Abbasid Baghdad in 836 CE.

Old Dongola, Sudan

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Silko of Nobatia

Σιλκω

Sudan

c. 510 CE – c. 560 CE (~50 years old)

5th-century Christian King of the Nobatae who established the medieval Kingdom of Nobatia and inscribed his legendary Greek triumphal inscription at the Temple of Kalabsha.

Faras Region, Sudan

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Tantamani

𓏏𓈖𓍿𓌳𓈖𓇋

Sudan

c. 690 BCE – 653 BCE (~37 years old)

Last Nubian Pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt who marched north from Napata to reclaim Memphis from the Assyrian Empire in 664 BCE, immortalized in the Dream Stele.

El-Kurru, Sudan

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Ascalis

ⴰⵙⴽⴰⵍⵉⵙ

Morocco

c. 120 BCE – c. 80 BCE (~40 years old)

King of northern Mauretania based at Tingis (Tangier), besieged and overthrown around 81 BCE during the intervention of Roman general Quintus Sertorius.

Tangier, Morocco

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Aflah ibn Abd al-Wahhab

أفلح بن عبد الوهاب

Algeria

c. 790 – c. 871 (~81 years old)

Enlightened third Imam of the Rustamid state in Tahert (Tiaret) whose fifty-year reign marked the golden age of scientific inquiry, trans-Saharan commerce, and religious tolerance in medieval Algeria.

Tiaret, Algeria

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Arsinoe II

Ἀρσινόη

Egypt

c. 316 BCE – c. 270 BCE (~46 years old)

Astute and formidable Ptolemaic queen who ruled first as Queen of Thrace and Macedonia, and later as co-ruler and Pharaoh of Egypt alongside her brother Ptolemy II Philadelphus, deified as a living goddess across the Mediterranean.

Alexandria, Egypt

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Ptolemy I Soter

Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ

Macedonia

c. 367 BCE – c. 282 BCE (~85 years old)

Macedonian general and companion of Alexander the Great who founded the Ptolemaic Dynasty of Egypt, establishing Alexandria as the radiant intellectual capital of the Mediterranean and initiating the Mouseion and Great Library.

Alexandria, Egypt

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Nectanebo II

Senedjemibre Nakhthorhebyt

Egypt

c. 380 BCE – c. 342 BCE (~38 years old)

Third and final Pharaoh of the Thirtieth Dynasty who holds the historic distinction of being the last native Egyptian to rule Egypt as pharaoh, renowned for his lavish devotion to the gods and temple construction from Delta to Philae.

Sebennytos, Egypt

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Amasis II

Khnemibre Ahmose

Egypt

c. 600 BCE – c. 526 BCE (~74 years old)

Wise and charismatic Pharaoh of the Twenty-Sixth (Saite) Dynasty whose forty-four-year reign witnessed the final flourishing of native Egyptian economic prosperity, artistic renaissance, and deep diplomatic alliances with Greek states.

Sa el-Hagar, Egypt

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Merneptah

Baenre Merynetjeru Merneptah

Egypt

c. 1273 BCE – c. 1203 BCE (~70 years old)

Fourth Pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty and thirteenth son of Ramesses the Great who successfully defended Egypt against a massive Libyan coalition and erected the renowned Merneptah Stele containing the earliest historical mention of Israel.

Luxor, Egypt

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Ramesses III

Usermaatre Meryamun Ramesses

Egypt

c. 1217 BCE – c. 1155 BCE (~62 years old)

Second Pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty and the last great warrior-monarch of the New Kingdom who saved Egypt from catastrophic annihilation by repelling massive invasions of the Sea Peoples by land and sea.

Luxor, Egypt

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Seti I

Menmaatre Seti

Egypt

c. 1323 BCE – c. 1279 BCE (~44 years old)

Distinguished Nineteenth Dynasty warrior-pharaoh and master builder who restored Egypt's imperial prestige across Syria and Canaan and commissioned the sublime Hypostyle Hall at Karnak and the Mortuary Temple at Abydos.

Luxor, Egypt

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Ahmose I

Nebpehtyre Ahmose

Egypt

c. 1560 BCE – c. 1525 BCE (~35 years old)

Heroic Pharaoh of Egypt and founder of the Eighteenth Dynasty who liberated the homeland from more than a century of foreign Hyksos occupation, inaugurating Egypt's imperial golden age: the New Kingdom.

Thebes, Luxor, Egypt

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Senusret III

Khakaure Senusret

Egypt

c. 1878 BCE – c. 1839 BCE (~39 years old)

Mighty Twelfth Dynasty pharaoh and brilliant military strategist who transformed the Egyptian state by curbing the hereditary power of local nomarchs and fortifying the southern borders with colossal Nile river fortresses.

Dahshur, Egypt

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Senusret I

Kheperkare Senusret

Egypt

c. 1971 BCE – c. 1926 BCE (~45 years old)

Second Pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty whose exceptionally prosperous forty-five-year reign fostered a golden age of Middle Kingdom classical literature, monumental temple building, and territorial expansion into Nubia.

el-Lisht, Egypt

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