Monarchs of Egypt
5 monarchs
Ramesses II
1279-1213 BCRamesses the Great ruled 66 years, outliving a dozen crown princes. Kadesh against the Hittites, the earliest documented battle, a...
Hatshepsut
1479-1458 BCRegent for Thutmose III, she took the full kingship, depicted in the false beard. The Punt expedition, myrrh trees transported, ob...
Cleopatra VII
51-30 BCGreek Macedonian dynasty, she was the first Ptolemy to learn Egyptian. Caesar in Alexandria, Caesarion born, civil war after Ides....
Akhenaten
c. 1353-1336 BCBorn Amenhotep IV, he changed his name to honor the sun disk Aten and raised it above the traditional gods in a religious revoluti...
Thutmose III
1479-1425 BCThutmose came to the throne as a child, with Hatshepsut acting as regent and then ruling as king. After her death he led around se...