Question

What can you infer about how pharaohs were viewed and valued in Ancient Egyptian culture? Give two specific examples from the text to support your inference.

Answer 1

Answer:

In the temples they were adorned with multiple reliefs where the reigning pharaoh was battling against Asian or Nubian enemies.They also built large palaces for the comfort of the pharaoh, but earthly life was less important than the afterlife, so they were not made of stone and they have not had the same duration as tombs and temples.

Pharaohs were considered almost divine beings during the first dynasties and were identified with the god Horus. From Dynasty V they were also (sons of the god Ra). They were not normally deified in life. It was after his death that the pharaoh merged with the deity Osiris and acquired immortality and a divine category, being then venerated as another god in the temples.

Explanation:

However, the title "Pharaoh", with its Egyptian term meaning "big house", should only be used in purity, when Egypt truly became it, extending its power beyond its original territory, which was produced only from of the New Kingdom, more specifically, in the middle of the Eighteenth Dynasty, after the reign of Hatshepsut.

The succession of pharaohs and the history of Egypt itself come inextricably linked and are so complementary to each other that it is impossible to ignore one of them and be an expert in the other. So much so that even in the most critical periods, when anarchy reigned in many areas of the country, there was always, at least, one pharaoh who claimed to be the legitimate ruler of the chaotic nation as a whole.