Pharaohs & Rulers — stories and articles

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Illustrated stories

• Sobekneferu
  The first woman confirmed to have ruled Egypt as king, and the last of her dynasty
• 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
• 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
• 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