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unusual facts about pharaohs



Asiris Nuna

The pyramids at Giza are shown to look the same during the days of the pharaohs as they do now.

Deir el-Bahari

In a separate room were found Twenty-first dynasty High Priests and pharaohs Pinedjem I, Pinedjem II, and Siamun.

Dendera Temple complex

But the earliest extant building in the compound today is the Mammisi raised by Nectanebo II – last of the native pharaohs (360–343 BC).

Diplomacy

Some of the earliest known diplomatic records are the Amarna letters written between the pharaohs of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt and the Amurru rulers of Canaan during the 14th century BC.

Eretz Israel Museum

In the 14th century BCE, the Egyptian pharaohs dispatched mining expeditions to Timna.

False door

During the nearly one hundred and fifty years spanning the reigns of the sixth dynasty pharaohs Pepi I, Merenre, and Pepi II, the false door motif went through a sequential series of changes affecting the layout of the panels, allowing historians to date tombs based on which style of false door was used.

Henry Danby Seymour

In 1856 Henry donated fragments of the Tomb of Sobekhotep, Thebes, to the British Museum, and was co-author of A History of Egypt Under the Pharaohs.

Land of the Pharaohs

Land of the Pharaohs is a 1955 American epic film in Cinemascope, directed and produced by Howard Hawks and starring the two British actors Jack Hawkins and Joan Collins as Pharaoh Khufu (also known as Cheops) and his second wife Nellifer, in fictional account of the building of the Great Pyramid.

Pakhet

Hatshepsut and her daughter Neferure have been identified as the builders of a smaller temple dedicated to Pakhet nearby, which was defaced by subsequent pharaohs.

Psammetichus

Psammetichus or Psamtik was the name of three Egyptian pharaohs of the 26th Saite Dynasty.

Raleigh-Egypt High School

Picking up on the latter name, the school's athletic teams are called The Pharaohs, the mascot is a Pharaoh, the yearbook is The Sphinx, and the student newspaper is The Scroll.

Ramose

A variant of the name is Ramesses; Egyptologists usually use the Ramesses variant for pharaohs and Ramose for non-royals.

Scorpion goddess

Serket - patron goddess of the Pharaohs and deification of the scorpion

The Pharaohs

Many of the Afro-Sheen commercials from this period featured music of the Pharaohs.

Thutmose III

He was interred along with those of other eighteenth and nineteenth dynasty leaders Ahmose I, Amenhotep I, Thutmose I, Thutmose II, Ramesses I, Seti I, Ramesses II, and Ramesses IX, as well as the twenty-first dynasty pharaohs Pinedjem I, Pinedjem II, and Siamun.


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