When he died, she ordered a replica from the same breeder and named him Pharaoh.
Hard or soft, commodities have fuelled desire, greed and war since the days of Pharaoh.
After the baby Moses is handed to Pharaoh's daughter, the adult Moses receives the Ten Commandments.
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Egyptian pharaoh, could hardly have foreseen the problems he would cause 3, 300 years after his death.
How did the pharaoh, known for keeping his enemies at bay, get into such a scrape?
With the pharaoh powerless to prevent the resulting famine, regional governors seized control.
Besides the infrared proof, one other explorer could also help reveal what is hidden in pharaoh Khufu's eternal resting place.
In the otherwise riveting Cigars of the Pharaoh, the brave reporter crashes his small plane in the jungles of India.
The Pyramid of Chefren is the second largest at Giza and the tomb of the Pharaoh Khafre from ancient Egypt's fourth dynasty.
In some sketches, he has portrayed Mr Morsi as a pharaoh, calling him "Super Morsi" for holding on to executive and legislative powers.
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About 5, 200 years ago, the first pharaoh managed to unify Upper and Lower Egypt into a single state with Memphis as its capital.
It's only fitting then, that the latter have been used to help bring the mummy case of Pharaoh Hor back from obscurity.
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There was something subversive about a land that exported a female goddess the Isis temples in Rome were notorious spots for assignations and a female pharaoh.
This includes the 3, 500-year-old bust of Queen Nefertiti, wife of the famous Pharaoh Akhenaten, on show at the newly re-opened Neues Museum in Berlin, Germany.
The step pyramid was built above the tomb of pharaoh Djoser, a warrior who reigned in the Old Kingdom in the third dynasty for 19 years.
The boy-pharaoh's tomb was discovered in 1922 by Howard Carter.
The four colossal statues of the pharaoh fronting the temple were like gigantic sentinels watching over the incoming traffic from the south, undoubtedly designed as a warning to the strength of the pharaoh.
As Egyptians rose up against Mubarak in January 2011, the man who had led the country so long he was nicknamed "Pharaoh" shuffled his government ministers one last time, promoting Shafik from civil aviation minister to prime minister.
More than 3, 000 years ago, between the first and second cataracts on the West Bank and the Nil, the Egyptian Pharaoh commanded a colossal temple, and a smaller one along with it, to be carved out of the rock.
Mr. Knecht breaks up the story of Lucky Linda's construction by salting in some rather fun history of yachting though the ages, beginning with Pharaoh Ptolemy IV, who ruled Egypt 200 years before Christ and built a 400-foot vessel powered by several hundred oarsmen.
The Great Temple was first carved out of the mountain on the west bank of the Nile between 1274 and 1244BC, Ramses II's imposing temple was as much dedicated to the deified pharaoh himself as to the primeval Egyptian gods Ra-Horakhty, Amun and Ptah.
But sketches in which he portrayed Mr Morsi as a pharaoh, calling him "Super Morsi" for holding on to executive and legislative powers, and, separately, putting the president's image on a pillow and parodying his speeches have angered one Islamist lawyer, whose formal complaint has resulted in the investigation.
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