“The pharaoh was a sacrosanct monarch who served as the intermediary between the gods and man.”

“Many provincial nomarchs built extravagant temples, trying to connect their power to the pharaoh.”

“It created a fascination for Egyptology and for a pharaoh who died as a teenager.”

“The Pharao Collection is crystalline glass with a precious platinum banding.”

“Both Freddy and Pharaon are, on several occasions, overwhelmed by swells of inarticulate rage.”

“As to the sailors of the Pharaon, they must have found snug berths elsewhere, for they also had disappeared.”

“But this vessel which, like the Pharaon, came from Calcutta, had been in for a fortnight, while no intelligence had been received of the Pharaon.”

“The ancient Egyptians used the pyramids as tombs for the pharaohs and temples for their gods.”

“In Egypt, the twelfth-century BC pharaohs had to appoint a commission to inquire into the wholesale plundering of tombs in the Theban valley.”

“Eastern Sudan has been the homeland of the Beja since the days of the pharaohs 4,000 years ago.”

“These passages could be seen in the socio-political sweep of their emperors, Caesars, and pharaons as case studies in forced labor and territorial control.”