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- Hadrian's VillaArchaeological complex in Tivoli, Italy
- Hadrian's WallDefensive fortification in Roman Britain
- HafirA hafir, or haffir, is an artificially constructed water catchment basin with a circular e
- HalieiaAncient Rhodian festival in honor of Helios
- HaloaFestival in honour of Demeter / Persephone
- Haloa japonicaHaloa japonica, common name the Japanese bubble snail, is a species of sea snail or bubble
- Han dynastyImperial dynasty in China (202 BC – 220 AD)
- Hapi (Nile god)Ancient Egyptian god of the annual flooding of the Nile
- HarmoniaAncient Greek goddess of harmony and concord
- Harmony SocietyThe Harmony Society was a Christian theosophy and pietist society founded in Iptingen, Ger
- HarpocratesGod-child of Greek and Egyptian mythology
- HarsomtusEgyptian god
- HastatiHastati (sg.: hastatus) were a class of infantry employed in the armies of the early Roman
- HatmehitAncient Egyptian fish goddess
- HatraArchaeological site in Iraq
- HauronUgaritic, Canaanite and Egyptian deity
- Head of NefertemWooden bust of Tutankhamun
- Heavy infantryHeavily armed and armoured soldiers
- Hebe (mythology)Ancient Greek goddess of youth
- HecamedeIn the Iliad, Hecamede (Ancient Greek: Ἑκαμήδη), daughter of Arsinoos, was captured from t
- HecateGreek goddess of magic and transitions
- HecatomnidsThe Hecatomnid dynasty or Hecatomnids were the rulers of Caria and surrounding areas c. 39
- HectorTrojan hero in Greek mythology
- HecubaSpouse of king Priam in Greek mythology
- HedjetWhite Crown of Upper Egypt
- HedjhotepAncient Egyptian deity
- Heh (god)Ancient Egyptian personification of infinity or eternity
- Heka (god)Ancient Egyptian deity
- Helen of TroyMost beautiful woman in Greek mythology
- Helenus (son of Priam)Mythical Trojan prince and seer
- HelepolisSiege tower
- HeliosGreek god and personification of the Sun
- Hellenic historiographyScience of Greek historical writing
- Hellenic orogenyThe Hellenic orogeny is a collective noun referring to multiple mountain building events t
- Hellenic State (1941–1944)1941–1944 puppet state of the Italy and Nazi Germany
- Hellenistic armiesArmies of the Hellenistic kingdoms
- Hellenistic GreeceHistorical period of Greece following Classical Greece
- Hellenistic JudaismForm of Judaism in classical antiquity
- Hellenistic philosophyPeriod of Western philosophy
- Hellenistic religionLate form of ancient Greek religion
- HellenizationSpread of Greek language and culture
- HelotsSubjugated population in ancient Sparta
- HemenAncient Egyptian god
- HemeraAncient Greek goddess of the day
- Hemhem crownAncient Egyptian ceremonial headgear
- HenhenetHenhenet was an ancient Egyptian queen consort, a lower ranking wife of Pharaoh Mentuhotep
- Henri FrankfortDutch archaeologist and historian
- HenutmireHenutmire was an ancient Egyptian princess and queen. She was one of the eight Great Royal
- HenutsenHenutsen is the name of an ancient Egyptian queen consort who lived during the 4th dynasty
- HephaestusGreek god of blacksmiths
- HeqaibEgyptian nomarch
- HeqetAncient Egyptian goddess of fertility
- Heracleopolis MagnaArchaeological site in Egypt
- Herbert Eustis WinlockAmerican Egyptologist
- HerculaneumRoman town destroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius
- HerculesRoman adaptation of the Greek divine hero Heracles
- HerihorEgyptian high priest
- HermanubisClassical-era Greco-Egyptian syncretic God
- Hermes TrismegistusLegendary author of the Hermetica
- Herod Antipas1st-century AD tetrarch of Galilee and Perea (r. 1–39)
- Heroic coupletRhyming pair of lines in iambic pentameter
- Heroninos ArchiveThe Heroninos Archive is a collection of around a thousand papyrus documents, dating to th
- HerostratusArsonist who destroyed the Temple of Artemis (fl. 356 BCE)
- HeryshafAncient Egyptian deity
- HesperusPlanet Venus in the evening
- HestiaGreek goddess of the hearth
- Hiera OrgasSite of ancient Greek conflicts
- HierakonpolisReligious and political capital of Upper Egypt in Ancient Egypt
- HieraticCursive writing system used in ancient Egyptian
- HiereiaAncient Greek female priestess title
- High Priest of AmunPriestly title in ancient Egypt
- High Priest of RaPriestly title in ancient Egypt
- Hill-country (hieroglyph)Egyptian hieroglyph
- Himilco (general)Himilco (died 396 BC) was a member of the Magonids, a Carthaginian family of hereditary ge
- Hippos (ancient site)Archaeological site
- HirpiniThe Hirpini (Latin: Hirpini) were an ancient Samnite tribe of Southern Italy. While genera
- Historicity of the IliadDebate on the factuality of the Homeric canon
- Historiography of Alexander the GreatArea of study on military commander and king
- Historiography of the fall of the Western Roman EmpireThe causes and mechanisms of the fall of the Western Roman Empire are a historical theme t
- History of GreekGreek is an Indo-European language, the sole surviving descendant of the Hellenic sub-fami
- History of Macedonia (ancient kingdom)The kingdom of Macedonia was an ancient state on the periphery of Archaic Greece and Class
- History of SpartaThe history of Sparta describes the history of the ancient Doric Greek city-state known as
- History of the Constitution of the Roman RepublicThe history of the Constitution of the Roman Republic is a study of the ancient Roman Repu
- History of the Greek alphabetThe history of the Greek alphabet began with the adoption of Phoenician letter forms in th
- History of the Jews in the Roman EmpireThe history of the Jews in the Roman Empire traces the interaction of Jews and Romans duri
- History of the later Roman EmpireThe history of the Later Roman Empire covers the history of the Roman Empire from the begi
- History of the Roman ConstitutionThe History of the Roman Constitution is a study of ancient Rome that traces the progressi
- History of Western civilization before AD 500Western civilization describes the development of human civilization beginning in Ancient
- Histria (ancient city)Greek colony on the Black Sea (est. 7th Century BC)
- Holy day of obligationIn the Catholic Church, holy days of obligation or days of precept are days on which Catho
- Holy MondayDay in Holy Week
- Holy SaturdaySaturday before Easter Sunday
- Holy TuesdayDay of Holy Week in Christianity
- Holy WednesdayChristian commemoration
- Homeric GreekForm of the Greek language found in Homer
- Homeric HymnsAncient Greek poems composed between c. 800 BCE and c. 500 CE
- HomilyCommentary that follows a reading of scripture
- Homoerotic themes in Greek and Roman mythologyHomoeroticism is a prominent theme in Greco-Roman mythology, with many myths depicting int
- HomoiōmaHomoiōma (ὁμοίωμα) is a Greek neuter noun for "likeness" which is particularly common in J
- HomoousionChristian theological term and concept
- HonoriusWestern Roman emperor from 393 to 423
- HopliteAncient Greek soldier in a phalanx
- HoplitodromosThe hoplitodromos or hoplitodromia (Greek: ὁπλιτόδρομος, ὁπλιτοδρομία, English translation
- Hor-AhaEgyptian pharaoh (First Dynasty)
- HoremhebFinal Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt
- Horus nameOldest known crest of ancient Egyptian rulers
- Horus on the CrocodilesGroup of ancient Egyptian amulets
- House of AugustusAncient domus in Rome
- House of MihranPersian noble family
- House of the Tragic PoetThe House of the Tragic Poet (also called The Homeric House or The Iliadic House) is a Rom
- Howard CarterBritish archaeologist and Egyptologist (1874–1939)
- Howard VyseBritish soldier and Egyptologist
- Humiliation of ChristProtestant Christian doctrine
- Hutena and HutelluraHutena and Hutellura (also spelled Hudena and Hudellura; ḫdn ḫdlr in alphabetic Ugaritic t
- HypaspistsAncient Macedonian military unit also known as a shield-bearer
- HypocephalusAncient Egyptian small disk-shaped drawing