pharaoh
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But we know what narrator Ramin Karimloo means: The last significant pharaoh continues to occupy the dreams of Egyptologists scouring the dust for traces of his history.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026
Glass had chosen the pharaoh because he is thought to have been the first monotheistic ruler.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 5, 2026
Stasevska was born in 1984, the same year that Glass’ hypnotic, ritualistic opera, about an Egyptian pharaoh who dared to push monotheism onto his polytheistic culture, debuted in Stuttgart, Germany.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
At the centre of the main atrium stands an 83-tonne statue of Ramses II, the pharaoh who ruled Egypt for 66 years and presided over its golden age.
From Barron's • Nov. 1, 2025
“The pharaoh wants to meet me? There must be some mistake.”
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
Vocabulary lists containing pharaoh
Commonly Misspelled Words, List 4
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Ancient Egypt and Kush, Lessons 1–3
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