Medjay (also Medjai, Mazoi, Madjai, Mejay, Egyptian mḏꜣ.j, a nisba of mḏꜣ) was a demonym used in various ways throughout ancient Egyptian history to refer...

are another Cushitic speaking tribe, or more likely a subdivision of the Medjay/Beja people, which is attested in Napatan and Egyptian texts from the 6th...

Hills as far back as the Early Holocene. Based on onomastic evidence, the Medjay and the Blemmyes of northern Nubia are believed to have spoken Cushitic...

Eastern Desert from c.1850 BCE - 1600 BCE. They were once confused with the Medjay of the Egyptian textual tradition. Some may have worked as mercenaries during...

Leiterband pottery to speakers of a Cushitic language improbable. The nomadic Medjay and the Blemmyes—the latter possibly a subgroup of the former—are believed...

ensuring the security and welfare of the Egyptian people as the last of the Medjay, a title he inherited from his father. In Origins, Bayek fights against...

police force, to prevent their fellow Medjay tribespeople from further attacking Egyptian assets in the region. The Medjay were often used to protect valuable...

1917 and Persia in 1906 and again in 1953. Mesedi, in the Hittite Empire Medjay, since the old kingdom of Egypt until the Ptolemaic dynasty Somatophylakes...

and Ta Nehesi or Ta Seti by Ancient Egyptians named for the Nubian and Medjay archers or bowmen. Since 2011, Sudan is also sometimes referred to as North...

near the end of the Ptolemaic period from 49 to 38 BC, the story follows a Medjay named Bayek of Siwa and his wife Aya as they seek revenge for the murder...