The term máchimoi (Greek: μάχιμοι, plural of μάχιμος, máchimos, meaning "pugnacious") commonly refers to a broad category of ancient Egyptian low-ranked...

nephew Nakhthorheb as the leader of the machimoi (Diodorus Siculus, certainly exaggerating, claimed that the machimoi were 80,000 in number). Teos placed...

of which became increasingly common. Members of the army, such as the machimoi (low ranking native soldiers) were sometimes recruited as guards for officials...

drilled local natives as hoplites or rather Macedonian phalanx, like the Machimoi of the Ptolemaic army. The Greek armies of the Hellenistic period mostly...

II accompanied his uncle Teos in that campaign and was in charge of the machimoi. In an attempt to quickly raise finances for the war, Teos imposed taxes...

his own son Nakhthorheb, who was serving Teos as the commander of the machimoi, to rebel against him and to rise as pharaoh himself. His plan was successful:...

allowing the native Egyptian warrior class, the Machimoi, into the phalanx. Up until that point the Machimoi had only performed auxiliary duties such as archery...

Egyptians to serve in the phalanx. These 30,000 picked Egyptians, known as the Machimoi Epilektoi, fought well in the battle, but caused problems later on. The...

misspelled the name, he emended Madrimosaurus to Machimosaurus, from the Greek machimoi, ancient Egyptian troops deployed during the Ptolemaic Dynasty plus the...

Maa Kheru Maathorneferure Maatkare B Maatkare Mutemhat MacGregor plaque Machimoi Mafdet Magas of Cyrene Mahat chapel of Mentuhotep II Mahu (noble) Mahu...