9 sentences with 'pharaohs'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pharaohs and other words derived from it.
• « Almost as mysterious as the pharaohs who rest in their entrails, the Egyptian pyramids represent an enigma that has not yet been fully unravelled. »
• « It was also when the Egyptian kings began to call themselves pharaohs, meaning "great house", lord of all things. »
• « The pharaohs sent communities of Egyptians to colonise the conquered lands, both to pacify those lands and to exploit the natural resources in order to increase royal revenues. »
• « The pharaohs of the New Kingdom recruited the leaders of the lands they had conquered as puppet kings, surrounded by Egyptian advisors. »
• « The pharaohs of the New Kingdom communicated with the kings and queens of the Hittite Empire and the rulers of the Kassites and Assyrians; it was normal for rulers to refer to each other as 'brother' or 'sister'. »
• « Egypt recovered and new dynasties of pharaohs were sometimes able to recapture some of the glory of the ancient Egyptian kingdoms in their building projects and in the power of their armies, but in the long term Egypt proved vulnerable to foreign invasion thereafter. »
• « Once they consolidated their control, the Ptolemies were able to act simply as pharaohs, despite remaining ethnically and linguistically Macedonian. »
• « All history, according to Marx, is the history of class struggle. From the ancient pharaohs to the feudal kings and their nobles, the classes of the rich and powerful had always abused and exploited the classes of the poor and weak. »
• « Descendants of the first Egyptian pharaohs ("gypsy" comes from "Egyptian", as is well known), no one advocated for them in the entire Universal History of Infamy. Nor do they do so now, however much they deserve equal treatment. »