pharaohs

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A day in the life of a Pharaoh

2008
Describes the activities in a day in the life of a pharaoh, including getting dressed, making offerings, judging, hunting, and visiting his future tomb, and features "fact or fiction" questions throughout.

Pharaoh's Egypt

2005
Examines the world of the ancient Egyptians using a fictional story about a royal scribe as framework.

The murder of Tutankhamen

a true story
1998
Examines artifacts, documents, tombs, and x-rays of ancient mummies to support the author's claim that young Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen was murdered.

Ahmose

liberator of Egypt
2003
A biography of the pharaoh Ahmose, first pharaoh of Egypt's eighteenth dynasty and also the first pharaoh of the New Kingdom.

Rameses II

pharaoh of the new kingdom
2003
Examines the life and times of the man who ruled Egypt from 1279 to 1213 B.C., in the period when that kingdom was at its most powerful, and who built more monuments throughout Egypt than any other pharaoh.

Hatshepsut

the first woman pharaoh
2003
Examines the life and times of the first woman pharaoh of ancient Egypt.

Snefru

the pyramid builder
2003
A biography of the pharaoh Snefru, first pharaoh of Egypt's fourth dynasty and builder of some of its greatest pyramids.

Akhenaten and Tutankhamen

the religious revolution
2003
A biography of the pharaoh Akhenaten, a pharaoh from the middle of the eighteenth dynasty, who tried to change the primary god of Egypt to Aten. With a chapter about his son Tutankhamen, who returned to worshiping Amen.

Egyptian kings and queens and classical deities

1998
Introduces a dozen kings and queens of ancient Egypt and relates the often amazing exploits of other figures from the classical age of Greek and Roman mythology.

I wish I could be a Pharaoh

2005
Pop-up book describing how a boy prince becomes pharaoh.

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