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* And there is Music/GiuseppeVerdi's 19th century opera set in ancient Egypt, ''Theatre/{{Aida|Verdi}}''.
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* ''Aida'' (Verdi's opera) and ''Aida'' (the [[{{Disneyfication}} Disneyfied]] Broadway musical).
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* ''Aida'' (Verdi's opera) Music/GiuseppeVerdi's 19th century opera set in ancient Egypt, ''Theatre/{{Aida|Verdi}}''. It was adapted by Music/EltonJohn and ''Aida'' (the [[{{Disneyfication}} Disneyfied]] Creator/TimRice into the Broadway musical).musical ''Theatre/{{Aida|JohnRice}}''.
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* AnachronismStew: The first contemporary use of the term "Pharaoh" was either used for Thutmose III or his twice-great-grandson Akhenaten. Despite this, some works feature monarchs before them being referred to as Pharaoh.
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* AnachronismStew: The first contemporary use of the term "Pharaoh" was either to refer to the monarch seems to have first been used for during the reign of Hatshepsut, of the New Kingdom Eighteenth Dynasty; the word (which literally means "palace") seems to have been used by patriarchal royal officials to talk around the fact that His Majesty (yes, ''[[SheIsTheKing His]]'' Majesty) was a woman. (Or maybe it was just changing fashions, who knows.) Either way, the usage persisted through the reign of her nephew Thutmose III or and became common by the reign of his twice-great-grandson great-great-grandson Akhenaten. Despite this, some works feature monarchs before them being referred to as Pharaoh.
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* ''Film/FallOfTheHouseOfUsher'': The series contains many Ancient Egyptian imagery and allusions. With two of the main characters collecting many Egyptian artifacts and one of the deaths of the series being inspired by the embalming practice of dead Pharoah's.
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* ''Film/FallOfTheHouseOfUsher'': ''Series/TheFallOfTheHouseOfUsher2023'': The series contains many Ancient Egyptian imagery and allusions. With two of the main characters collecting many Egyptian artifacts and one of the deaths of the series being inspired by the embalming practice of dead Pharoah's.
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* Creator/DavidGemmell's ''Literature/TroySaga'', one of the main character is an exiled prince on the run from Ramses. Egypt in general plays an indirect in the events of the series, primarily in the first book when it's believed Hector fell in battle in the real-life Battle of Kadesh fighting the Egyptians.
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* ''Film/FallOfTheHouseOfUsher'': The series contains many Ancient Egyptian imagery and allusions. With two of the main characters collecting many Egyptian artifacts and one of the deaths of the series being inspired by the embalming practice of dead Pharoah's.
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* ''Film/FallOfTheHouseOfUsher'': The series contains many Ancient Egyptian imagery and allusions. With two of the main characters collecting many Egyptian artifacts and one of the deaths of the series being inspired by the embalming practice of dead Pharoah's.
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* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: The royal palaces are uniformly portrayed as being built out of stone in fiction, making them look like temples. In reality, ancient Egyptian palaces were made of mud-bricks just like commoners' houses were; stone was reserved exclusively for temples and statues, which were built to last forever as monuments to the gods. The Pharaoh's seat of power could change at any time, depending on where the current state clergy resided and where the capital was, and using mud-bricks was the quickest, most efficient way to build places for the Pharaoh's household to live. Expect this to be ignored in most works because of the RuleOfGlamorous.
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* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: The Ancient Egyptian royal palaces are uniformly portrayed as being built out of stone in fiction, making them look like temples. In reality, ancient Egyptian the palaces were made of mud-bricks just like commoners' houses were; stone was reserved exclusively for temples and statues, which were built to last forever as monuments to the gods. The Pharaoh's seat of power could change at any time, depending on where the current state clergy resided and where the capital was, and using mud-bricks was the quickest, most efficient way to build places for the Pharaoh's household to live. Expect this to be ignored in most works because of the RuleOfGlamorous.
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Venturing through this country, O Bold Troper, you will likely find [[IntrepidMerchant merchants from faraway lands]], wily thieves, ill-tempered camels, and [[AmbiguouslyBrown olive-skinned]] topless seductresses with braided wigs and ''kohl''-painted eyes. Also home to fanatical bald priests in lapis collars and leopard-skin robes, who usually wind up being turned into mummies after calling down the wrath of the gods upon their heads (usually for getting involved with the aforementioned beautiful olive-skinned ''kohl''-painted seductresses in some way). Wretched loincloth-wearing slaves labour to build pyramids in the scorching sun beneath the whips of merciless overseers... despite the fact that the great monuments were actually built by paid labourers with their own guilds.
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Venturing through this country, O Bold Troper, you will likely find [[IntrepidMerchant merchants from faraway lands]], wily thieves, ill-tempered camels, and [[AmbiguouslyBrown olive-skinned]] topless seductresses with braided wigs and ''kohl''-painted eyes. Also home to fanatical bald priests in lapis collars and leopard-skin robes, who usually wind up being turned into mummies after calling down the wrath of the gods upon their heads (usually for getting involved with the aforementioned beautiful olive-skinned ''kohl''-painted seductresses in some way). Wretched loincloth-wearing slaves labour to build pyramids in the scorching sun beneath the whips of merciless overseers... despite the fact that the great monuments were actually built by paid labourers with their own guilds.
* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: The royal palaces are uniformly portrayed as being built out of stone in fiction, making them look like temples. In reality, ancient Egyptian palaces were made of mud-bricks just like commoners' houses were; stone was reserved exclusively for temples and statues, which were built to last forever as monuments to the gods. The Pharaoh's seat of power could change at any time, depending on where the current state clergy resided and where the capital was, and using mud-bricks was the quickest, most efficient way to build places for the Pharaoh's household to live. Expect this to be ignored in most works because of the RuleOfGlamorous.
** To start with, there was the official crown of the Two Kingdoms (which the Greeks called the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pschent Pschent]]'' after mishearing the Egyptian word "Sekhmety"), which combined the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deshret Deshret]]'', the conical Red Crown of Lower Egypt, with the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedjet Hedjet]]'', the tall, ninepin-shaped White Crown of Upper Egypt. Certain texts describing/depicting the [[AwesomeMomentOfCrowning actual coronation of the monarch]] suggest that the ''Pschent'' was never actually a single crown but was literally created by placing the ''Hedjet'' inside the ''Deshret'' on the new king's head. In the New Kingdom[[note]]And possibly the Middle Kingdom, records are sketchy.[[/note]] this was given added significance because the ''Deshret'' was carried into the ceremony and placed on the king's head by the chief priest of the cult of Ra (a cult based at the Lower Egyptian city of Iunu/Heliopolis) and the ''Hedjet'' by the chief priest of the cult of Amun (a cult based at the Upper Egyptian city of Thebes), thereby symbolizing the political and religious unity of the Two Lands that made up Egypt.
** If the king wanted a less formal look, he went with the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khepresh Khepresh]]'' or Blue Crown, which was a [[BlingOfWar Pimped Out Helmet]]: a tall rounded hat sometimes covered with gold sequins and frequently decorated with a golden uraeus cobra. The Blue Crown was a particular favorite of UsefulNotes/RamsesII, to emphasize his YoungConqueror image.
** Best of all was the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atef Atef]]'' crown. In its simplest incarnation this consisted of a pair of rams' horns surmounted by a shape like the white crown but in reeds flanked by ostrich plumes and topped off by a sun disk. This usually wasn't worn by Egyptian kings, being a specific symbol of [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Osiris]], the Lord of the Dead and god of fertility (and one of several royal deities associated with the concept of kingship).
** A fancier version of the ''Atef'', the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemhem_crown Hemhem]]'', multiplied the reed thingies and sun disks and hung cobras all over it. The ''Hemhem'' was so cool that their neighbors noticed and adopted it for their own; one of the most famous depictions of UsefulNotes/CyrusTheGreat, a relief at Pasargadae (in modern Iran), shows him with a ''Hemhem'' even though he never ruled Egypt. (Persia did conquer Egypt, but only under Cyrus's son, Cambyses II, about five years after his death.)
** What these crowns were made of and how they were kept on is mostly unknown to science; it's likely that they were at least sometimes made at least partly of cloth or dyed leather. Interestingly, some texts suggest the crowns (as in the physical hats) were passed on from generation to generation like the crowns of today's monarchies. It is possible that some of the more elaborate structures were mere artistic convention never worn in Real Life.
** The queens were no slouches either, having the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_crown vulture crown]] as their headdress of choice. It originated in art as an accessory in depictions of the vulture goddess Nekhbet, but became a real head adornment for Pharaohs' wives and high-ranked priestesses to wear from the Fifth Dynasty and onwards. It was sometimes combined with horns or the sun disc, and the vulture's head on it was occasionally replaced with the uraeus cobra.
** If the king wanted a less formal look, he went with the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khepresh Khepresh]]'' or Blue Crown, which was a [[BlingOfWar Pimped Out Helmet]]: a tall rounded hat sometimes covered with gold sequins and frequently decorated with a golden uraeus cobra. The Blue Crown was a particular favorite of UsefulNotes/RamsesII, to emphasize his YoungConqueror image.
** Best of all was the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atef Atef]]'' crown. In its simplest incarnation this consisted of a pair of rams' horns surmounted by a shape like the white crown but in reeds flanked by ostrich plumes and topped off by a sun disk. This usually wasn't worn by Egyptian kings, being a specific symbol of [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Osiris]], the Lord of the Dead and god of fertility (and one of several royal deities associated with the concept of kingship).
** A fancier version of the ''Atef'', the ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemhem_crown Hemhem]]'', multiplied the reed thingies and sun disks and hung cobras all over it. The ''Hemhem'' was so cool that their neighbors noticed and adopted it for their own; one of the most famous depictions of UsefulNotes/CyrusTheGreat, a relief at Pasargadae (in modern Iran), shows him with a ''Hemhem'' even though he never ruled Egypt. (Persia did conquer Egypt, but only under Cyrus's son, Cambyses II, about five years after his death.)
** What these crowns were made of and how they were kept on is mostly unknown to science; it's likely that they were at least sometimes made at least partly of cloth or dyed leather. Interestingly, some texts suggest the crowns (as in the physical hats) were passed on from generation to generation like the crowns of today's monarchies. It is possible that some of the more elaborate structures were mere artistic convention never worn in Real Life.
** The queens were no slouches either, having the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_crown vulture crown]] as their headdress of choice. It originated in art as an accessory in depictions of the vulture goddess Nekhbet, but became a real head adornment for Pharaohs' wives and high-ranked priestesses to wear from the Fifth Dynasty and onwards. It was sometimes combined with horns or the sun disc, and the vulture's head on it was occasionally replaced with the uraeus cobra.
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