The pharaohs / Joyce Tyldesley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue ; Finding the pharaohs -- The first pharaohs: A tale of two lands : The valley and the delta / C.5300-3050 BC ; The Horus Kings : Menes and Narmer / C.3050-3000 BC : The evidence from Abydos ; Egypt's first royal cemetary / C.3000-2686 BC -- Pharaohs and pyramids: Stairways to the stars : The step pyramids / C.2686-2613 BC ; The great builders ; Snefru and his family / C.2613-2494 BC ; The children of Re : From Userkaf to Unas / C.2494-2345 BC ; Decentralization and drought : The end of the old kingdom / C.2345-2181 BC -- Pharaohs reinvented: Local rule : The first intermediate period / C.2181-2055 BC ; Reunited : The warriors of Thebes / C.2125-1985 BC ; Peace and prosperity : Amenemhat and his descendants / C.1985-1773 ; Decline : The end of the middle kingdom / C.1773-1650 BC ; Invasion and expulsion : The second intermediate period / C.1650-1550 BC -- The fighting pharaohs: Egypt restored : The expulsion of the Hyksos / C.1550-1504 BC ; Valley of the kings : Housing the royal dead ; Developing the empire : The Tuthmoside Kings / C.1504-1427 BC -- Pharaohs of the sun: Sunrise : Amenhotep II and Tuthmosis IV ; C.1427-1390 BC ; The dazzling sun disk : Amenhotep III / C.1390-1352 BC ; High Noon : Amenhotep IV, Akhenaten and the Amarna Period / C.1352-1336 BC ; Sunset : The experiment fails / C.1338-1295 BC -- The Ramesside Pharaohs: A new beginning : General Ramesses and his son / C.1295-1279 BC ; Master of propaganda : Ramesses II / C.1279-1213 BC ; An inextricable decline : From Merenptah to Tawosret / C.1213-1186 BC ; Rise and fall : Eight kings named Ramesses C.1186-1069 BC -- Pharaohs and foreigners: Divided rule : Tanis and Thebes / C.1069-945 BC ; Chaos and confusion : The Libyan Pharaohs / C.945-715 BC ; Brief stability : The Nubian Pharaohs / C.747-656 BC ; A backwards glance : The Saite Pharaohs / C.664-525 BC ; A hated overlord : Two Persian invasions / C.525-332 BC -- The final pharaohs: Salvation : The Macedonian Pharaohs / 332-305 BC ; A new empire : Ptolemy I to Ptolemy III / 304-221 BC ; Change : The beginning of the end / 221-51 BC ; The last pharaohs : The fall of the House of Ptolemy / 51-30 BC -- Epilogue: After the pharaohs.

An illustrated history of Egyptian pharaohs that profiles three-thousand years of rulers in Egypt, which includes Khufu, Montuhotep II, Hatshepsut, Tutankhamen, and others.