1. Menes (aka Narmer) First to unite Upper & Lower Egypt Established capital city of Memphis between them

2. Djoser

3. Sneferu’s Bent Pyramid

4. Sneferu’s Red Pyramid

5. Khufu’s ivory statue – only 3 inches

6. Khufu’s Great Pyramid had changes to try to prevent robbery – failed !

7. Khafre

8. Khafre’s pyramid and Sphinx

9. Ahmose I

10. Ahmose I fighting Hyksos

11. Ahmose I battle ax with bronze blade

12. Ahmose I mummy

13. Thutmose III

14. Thutmose III mummy – Did he get the last laugh on his step-mom Hatshepsut?

15. Hatshepsut – first a regent; then the only female pharaoh!

16. Hatshepsut’s temple – Who really scratched off her name?

17. Hatshepsut’s mummy – identified by DNA from a missing tooth found separately

18. Akhenaton
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19. Akhenaton & Queen Nefertiti holding their 2 daughters under Aton

20. Akhenaton’s One God - Aton

21. Tutankhamen - too young to do great deeds as a pharaoh so why so famous?

22. Tut’s tomb in Valley of the Kings was hidden by rubble from a tomb above it

23. Looking inside chambers of Tut’s tomb Howard Carter saw “wonderful things.”

24. Three layers of coffins & a mask

25. Tut’s internal organs were well protected

26. More Tut treasures

27. Tut jewelry

28. Tut thrones

29. Tut loved to hunt & maybe fight

30. Ramses II – more monuments than any other pharaoh (supposedly because he put his name on other pharaohs’ monuments too)

31. Ramses II mummy

32. Ramses II’s Abu Simbel- Statues were larger than life to reinforce pharaoh’s status

33. Abu Simbel in pieces

34. Abu Simbel in danger

35. Abu Simbel inside

36. Abu Simbel – sunlight reaches the gods in the back only twice a year

37. Abu Simbel reassembled

38. Cleopatra VII In the movies In reality

39. Julius Caesar and Cleopatra

40. Marc Antony and Cleopatra