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Porus was a king in the Indian subcontinent who fought Alexander the Great.

Saul was the first king of the United monarchy.

Nabonidus was a king of Babylonia.

Babylonian King Nabopolassar was the father of Nebuchadnezzar.

Naram-Sin was a king of Akkad.

Nebuchadnezzar I was a 12th century king of Babylonia.

 

Nestor is an old mythological king of Pylos, who appears in the Iliad and Odyssey.

Identification of the ancient leader Nimrod.

Abou the Roman Emperor Numerian.

Guest bio of Pelopidas, by Bingley.

Pepy I, son of Teti (r. 2374-2354 B.C.) and Queen Ipout, was a long ruling pharaoh (r. c.2354-2310 B.C.) of the 6th dynasty in ancient Egypt

About Alexander the Great's father, King Phillip II of Macedon.

Philip the Arab was a Roman emperor from 244-249 A.D.

Porus, king of the area between the Hydaspes and the Acesines rivers, in India, met Alexander the Great at the Battle of the Hydaspes River in June 326 B.C.

King of Epirus whose name is memorialized in the expression Pyrrhic Victory.

The Queen of Sheba lived around 1000 B.C. and has been the source of legend ever since. She is written about in the Bible for her encounter with King Solomon.

Romulus Augustulus was a boy when he became the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire.

Scipio Africanus won the Hannibalic War or Second Punic War for Rome by defeating Hannibal at Zama in 202 B.C.

Shamshi-Adad was a king in Mesopotamia.

Servius Tullius, the sixth king of Rome was a reformer and builder. Here are some of what are considered his main contributions to ancient Rome.

Glossary entry on Solomon.

Pyrrhus was a king of Epirus who fought against Rome.