as in dictator
a person who uses power or authority in a cruel, unjust, or harmful way
like some pharaoh of a third-world country, more interested in building monuments to himself than in creating a future for his people
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Archaeologists have found a pharaoh’s tomb in an Egyptian valley west of Luxor, Egypt’s ministry of antiquities announced this week, in what officials called the first excavation of a royal tomb since Tutankhamen’s burial chamber was unearthed over a century ago.
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Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a pharaoh’s tomb, the first excavation of a royal burial chamber there since the discovery of Tutankhamen’s in 1922.
—Melissa Kirsch, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
One of my favorite vacations of all time, there’s nothing quite like seeing the ancient pyramids and pharaohs’ tombs in the Valley of the Kings in person.
—Hannah Freedman, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2025
The city and temple were established by the pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus between 280 and 270 B.C.E. in honor of the god.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan. 2025
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Alan Yuhas, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
Archaeologists in Egypt have uncovered a pharaoh’s tomb, the first excavation of a royal burial chamber there since the discovery of Tutankhamen’s in 1922.
—Melissa Kirsch, New York Times, 22 Feb. 2025
One of my favorite vacations of all time, there’s nothing quite like seeing the ancient pyramids and pharaohs’ tombs in the Valley of the Kings in person.
—Hannah Freedman, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2025
The city and temple were established by the pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus between 280 and 270 B.C.E. in honor of the god.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Jan. 2025
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“Pharaoh.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pharaoh. Accessed 27 Mar. 2025.
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