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a god-king who literally wore his country's two crowns to flex unified power.
means A pharaoh was a ruler of ancient Egypt, regarded not merely as a king but as a living divine figure central to the state and its religion.
from The word travels a long road: Egyptians called the royal palace per-aa, literally "great house." Over time the name of the house came to stand for the person living in it — much as we say "the White House" to mean a president. Hebrew scripture borrowed the term as par'oh, Greek reshaped it into pharaō, and through the Greek Bible it reached Latin and eventually English. So the title that now means "god-king" began, humbly, as a building.
- word origin
- means great house, originally the palace not the person
- fake beard
- strapped-on beards signaled divinity, even female pharaohs
- Hatshepsut
- ruled as king, depicted herself with a beard
- longest reign
- Pepi II possibly ruled over 90 years
- toe trouble
- a pharaoh wore the world's oldest known prosthetic
ramesses ii — ruled egypt for 66 years (1279-1213 bc), fathered over 100 children, built abu simbel
cleopatra vii — last pharaoh of ptolemaic egypt (51-30 bc), allied with julius caesar and mark antony
khufu — built the great pyramid of giza around 2589 bc, one of seven wonders of the ancient world