Dr Tyldesley said: “Though most people and many Egyptologists believe Nefertiti was an unusually powerful royal woman, and possibly even a pharaoh, I believe this was not the case. “He husband ...
She was the second woman known to have assumed the throne, and wins a spot in our top trumps of formidable queens. The only female pharaoh before her was Sobekneferu, who ruled for four years ...
In the 15th century B.C., the Egyptian pharaoh Hatshepsut, a woman who ruled as a king, launched a fabled expedition to a far-away land known as Punt, later recording the journey in a stone bas ...
Pharaoh’s comrades, unlike Ephron’s, do not flatter the likes of Abram. Pharaoh, unlike Ephron, does not speak in circles and circumlocutions. Pharaoh hardly speaks at all. His currency is violence.