Pharaohs — stories and articles

Everything on WonderBooks tagged Pharaohs: 6 articles and 50 illustrated stories, free to read with audio narration.

Articles

• Unearthing Abydos: More Than Just a Temple
• Who Were the 10 Greatest Pharaohs in Ancient Egypt?
• Who were the pharaohs of Egypt in order?
• Akhenaten: A Pharaoh Who Changed Everything?
• Akhenaten: Pharaoh or Heretic? Examining an Ancient Controversy
• Ramses II: A Legacy of Power and Propaganda

Illustrated stories

• Ancient Egypt (3100–30 BC)
  The Rise and Fall of the Pharaohs
• Cleopatra's Kitten and the Nile
• Djoser
• Hatshepsut: The Woman Who Became Pharaoh
  The Woman Who Became Pharaoh • Ancient Egypt
• Khafre
• Menkaure
• Sneferu
• Sobekneferu
  The first woman confirmed to have ruled Egypt as king, and the last of her dynasty
• The Battle of Kadesh
• The Boy King Tutankhamun
  Ancient Egypt
• The Young Pharaoh
• Tiye: Power Behind the Throne
  Power Behind the Throne • Ancient Egypt
• The Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb
• Abu Simbel, Cut Up and Moved
• Akhenaten
  Closed Egypt's temples for a single god, built a capital in empty desert, and was erased for it
• Amenhotep III
  Ruled the richest, most peaceful years Egypt would ever know, and built on a scale nobody matched
• Cleopatra VII: The Last Pharaoh
  The last pharaoh Egypt ever had, who held Rome off for twenty-one years with everything she knew
• Hatshepsut and the Voyage to Punt
  Ruled as king for twenty years and sent a fleet to Punt, then had her name chiselled out
• How a Hieroglyph Actually Works
• How the Blocks Were Moved
• Karnak, the Temple That Was Never Finished
• Khufu
  Built the Great Pyramid — the only wonder of the ancient world still standing
• Narmer
  The king who bound Upper and Lower Egypt into one kingdom, and began three thousand years of pharaohs
• Nefertari: A Temple of Her Own
  A queen given a temple of her own and the most beautiful painted tomb in Egypt
• Ptolemy II
  Built the Lighthouse and the Library, and made Alexandria the mind of the ancient world
• Ramesses II
  Reigned sixty-six years, signed the first peace treaty on record, and carved his name on everything
• Ramesses III
  The last pharaoh to win a great war, and the first known to face a strike by his own workmen
• Seti I
  Restored Egypt's empire and left the finest carved reliefs ever cut in Egyptian stone
• Taharqa
  Built across two kingdoms and fought Assyria for Egypt, and lost it
• The Amarna Letters
  three hundred clay tablets of royal correspondence, in the wrong language, from the wrong country
• The Assyrian Sack of Thebes
• The Battle of Megiddo
• The Colossi of Memnon
  two ruined giants that once guarded a vanished temple, and the singing that stopped in AD 199
• The Conspiracy Against Ramesses III
• The Curse, and Who It Was For
• The Great Pyramid, With Its Casing On
• The Karnak Cachette
  a pit under a courtyard holding eight hundred statues, and why they were buried rather than broken
• The Linen Makers
• The Mask of Tutankhamun
  eleven kilograms of gold, the nested coffins it sat inside, and the throne that came out of the same room
• The Nile Year
• The Restoration of the Gods
• The Shipwrecked Sailor
• The Strike at Deir el-Medina
• The War of the Sea Peoples
• The Writing Nobody Photographs
• The Year Egypt Had One God
• Thutmose III
  Fought seventeen campaigns and built the largest empire Egypt ever held
• Tutankhamun: The Tomb the Robbers Missed
  A boy king who undid his father's revolution, and whose intact tomb made him the most famous of them all
• What Killed Tutankhamun
• Where Nefertiti Went