This beautifully illustrated, authoritative and entertaining book provides comprehensive insight into Egyptian pharaohs and their world, from mornings in the palace to evenings banqueting, revealing the king’s role as husband, lawmaker, judge, priest, builder and warrior.
The most important ceremonies are compellingly described, including the coronation and the royal funeral, as well as the rigid protocol of an audience before the monarch. Pharaohs were great warriors and builders too, leaving their mark in the form ?of massive tombs, temples, palaces and even entire cities.

• How did someone become pharaoh?
• What did a pharaoh do each day?
• Did the pharaoh personally lead his army into battle?
• How influential was the Great Royal Wife?
• How was a pharaoh embalmed and buried?
• Who was the last pharaoh (and it wasn’t Cleopatra)?

Includes box features, from the internal decoration of pyramids and the women who became pharaoh to pharaonic pets, tables and quotations from contemporary sources.
The full reference section includes brief biographies of the key rulers.