Forget the golden masks and Hollywood drama for a second. The Egyptian pharaohs were not just kings with fancy hats. They were the glue holding together one of the most...

Most people picture a pharaoh as a guy with a golden mask sitting on a throne, half god, half king, bossing around slaves to build pyramids. That image isn’t wrong,...

Most people picture a pharaoh as a guy with a fancy beard and a golden mask. That’s the Hollywood version. The real Egyptian pharaohs were something far stranger: a political...