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The pharaohs were also the High Priests and made daily offerings to the gods. Only the kings and priests were allowed to enter the temples which were believed to house the gods whose spirits resided in their statues.
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The king of Egypt was also the commander-in-chief of the armed forces and often led the Egyptian armies and participated in the fighting. The Khepresh was the name of blue crown that was worn by Pharaohs in battle.
Fact 23 on Pharaoh Facts:
Pharaohs were entitled to employ as many of their subjects as they wanted in forced labor to work on constructing the pyramids, temples and tombs in ancient Egypt without pay.
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The pharaohs and their royal regalia were untouchable to ordinary men who had to pay due homage to the king by prostrating themselves before him.
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The pharaohs, together with the Nile god Hapi were believed to control the annual flooding of the Nile River and took this responsibility extremely seriously, making due offerings to the gods to try to ensure a 'good flood'.
Fact 26 on Pharaoh Facts:
The pharaohs was considered to be the incarnation of the god Horus (the son of Osiris) and from the 5th Dynasty the king was also considered to be the son of Ra, the sun god.
Fact 27 on Pharaoh Facts:
The first Egyptian pyramid was built by Imhotep. It was the Step Pyramid at Saqqara for King Djoser.
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The great pyramids of Giza were built for pharaohs Khufu, Khafre aka Chephren and Menkaure - refer to Great Pyramid of Cheops at Giza.
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King Thutmose III increased the empire Egypt through his military campaigns and conquests in Syria and Nubia.
Fact 30 on Pharaoh Facts:
King Akhenaten, with his wife Nefertiti, instigated a religious revolution based at Amarna. Akhenaten is referred to as the 'heretic pharaoh'
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King Ramses II was a prolific builder and initiated the building of the Ramesseum in Thebes and the massive rock temples of Abu Simbel.
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When pharaohs died they became fully deified and many mortuary temples were dedicated to the worship of the deceased king as a god.
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King Ahmose I expelled the Hyksos 'foreign rulers' who had introduced the horse and the chariot to ancient Egypt. King Ahmose I founded the 18th dynasty.
Fact 34 on Pharaoh Facts:
King Thutmose III, was one of the greatest pharaohs, and created the largest empire Egypt had ever known through his military campaigns in Canaan, Syria and Nubia.
Fact 35 on Pharaoh Facts:
King Seti I launched military campaigns against the Hittites and succeeded in gaining new lands providing lucrative trade routes to Mesopotamia.
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The great King Ramses II was renown for his military prowess that resulted in the suppression of threats from the Nubians, the Libyans and Hittites.
Fact 37 on Pharaoh Facts:
Amyrtaeus was a disgraced king of the 28th Dynasty who was dethroned and publicly executed at Memphis.
Fact 38 on Pharaoh Facts:
The 25th Dynasty is known as the Nubian Dynasty in which the Pharaohs were of Nubian descent.
Fact 39 on Pharaoh Facts:
The title of a female ruler was the same as a man - King or Pharaoh. The most famous of all the female rulers was the legendary Queen Cleopatra and a female pharaoh of the 18th dynasty called Queen Hatshepsut .
Fact 40 on Pharaoh Facts:
Queen Cleopatra was the last pharaoh of Egypt Following the death of Cleopatra, Egypt became a province of Rome. There were no more Egyptian Pharaohs and the Ancient Egyptian civilisation, that had survived for over 3000 years, was no more...