He is often regarded as the greatest, most celebrated, and most powerful pharaoh of the Egyptian Empire. His successors and later Egyptians called him the "Great Ancestor". Ramesses II led several military expeditions into the Levant, reasserting Egyptian control over Canaan. read more
Tutankhamun was a pharaoh from the 18th Dynasty, during the New Kingdom, and he is the best known pharaoh today. He was the son of Akhenaten and became pharaoh at the age of nine. During the first year of his reign, Tutankhamun abandoned Amarna and restored the cults of the old gods. read more
The Greatest Pharaohs is a 1997 American educational documentary film about Ancient Egypt distributed by A&E and narrated by Frank Langella with commentary by experts in the field. It is 200 minutes long and split into four parts, with each part explaining the lives of four Egyptian pharaohs. read more
Rated 4 out of 5 by Canadian from Pharaohs' Biographies In “Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt,” Dr. Bob Brier devoted single lectures to Narmer, Sneferu, the female pharaoh Hatshepsut, Akhenaten, Alexander, the female pharaoh Cleopatra VII, the Nubian pharaohs as a group, and the Ptolemaic pharaohs as a group. read more