Pharaohs of the Sun: Radio 4 Book of the Week, How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty

by Guy de la Bedoyere

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For more than two centuries Egypt was ruled by the most powerful, successful, and richest dynasty of kings in its long end epic history. They included the female king Hatshepsut, the warrior kings Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, the religious radical Akhenaten and his queen Nefertiti, and most famously of all for the wealth of his tomb the short-lived boy king Tutankhamun. The power and riches of the Pharaohs of the 18th Dynasty came at enormous cost to Egypt's enemies and most of its people. This was an age of ruthless absolutism, exploitation, extravagance, brutality, and oppression in a...

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  • ISBN10 1408714256
  • ISBN13 9781408714256
  • Publish Date 7 July 2022
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Little, Brown Book Group
  • Imprint Little, Brown
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 576
  • Language English