Wonder Egypt

Illustrated Stories of Ancient Egypt

Wonder Egypt is one of the libraries of WonderBooks — illustrated stories of ancient egypt, each told in ~10 illustrated pages with narration. There's a free library you can read without paying.

All 15 Wonder Egypt stories

• Sobekneferu
  Sobekneferu took the full titles of a king — not a queen regent, not a consort — and had herself shown in a royal kilt over a woman's dress, refusing to pretend
• Akhenaten
  Akhenaten shut down the worship of every god but the sun-disc, moved the entire capital to virgin ground at Amarna, and let his artists show the royal family as
• Amenhotep III
  Amenhotep III inherited an empire already won and spent thirty-eight years spending its income. He built a palace city at Malkata, a mortuary temple bigger than
• Cleopatra VII
  Cleopatra VII inherited a kingdom Rome had already decided to swallow and kept it independent for two decades by being better informed and better prepared than
• Hatshepsut
  Hatshepsut was regent for a small stepson and simply did not stop — she took the throne, the titles and the false beard, and gave Egypt two decades without a wa
• Khufu
  Khufu commanded the largest building project any human being had ever attempted, and it worked: two and a half million blocks, aligned to true north within a fr
• Narmer
  Before Narmer there were two Egypts: a southern kingdom along the upper Nile and a delta kingdom at its mouth. He joined them, wore both crowns, and founded the
• Nefertari
  Great Royal Wife to Ramesses II, Nefertari was carved at the same height as her husband on the front of her own temple at Abu Simbel — something no Egyptian que
• Ptolemy II
  Ptolemy II finished the Pharos lighthouse and funded the Library and Museum until Alexandria held, by its own claim, a copy of every book that existed. He paid
• Ramesses II
  Ramesses II fought the Hittites to a draw at Kadesh and told Egypt he had won it single-handed, on every wall he could reach. Sixteen years later he signed the
• Ramesses III
  Ramesses III stopped the Sea Peoples — the migration that broke every other Bronze Age power — in a river battle in the Delta, and carved the whole campaign on
• Seti I
  Seti I took back the territory the Amarna years had lost and then spent his reign on craftsmanship. The reliefs in his temple at Abydos are the high-water mark
• Taharqa
  Taharqa was a Nubian king of Kush who ruled Egypt as pharaoh, and he built more than any Egyptian had for five hundred years — at Karnak, at Memphis, and at Nap
• Thutmose III
  Kept off the throne for twenty years by his stepmother, Thutmose III spent the next thirty proving what he had been waiting to do. Seventeen campaigns took Egyp
• Tutankhamun
  He came to the throne at about nine, reversed his father's religion, and was dead before twenty — a minor king by every measure that mattered to Egypt. Then in

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