The pharaohs in Egypt were treated like gods. They were the rulers of one of the first great civilizations, living in absolute luxury and ruling over an empire the likes of which the world had never seen. They ate milk and honey while thousands of people died during the construction of huge statues in their honor. And when their own lives came to an end, the pharaohs were buried so that their bodies were preserved for more than 4,000 years. They had absolute power, they enjoyed life like no one else at that time, but sometimes they clearly went too far.
1Giant Genital Monuments 
Giant monuments with the genitals of Sesostris.
Sesostris was one of the greatest military leaders in the history of Egypt. He sent warships and troops to every corner of the known world and expanded his kingdom more than anyone in Egyptian history. And after each battle, he celebrated his success by setting up a large column with the image of the genitals. Sesostris left such pillars at the site of each battle.
Moreover, Sesostris did it quite funny: if the army opposing him fought valiantly, then he ordered to engrave the image of the penis on the column. But if the enemy was defeated without the slightest problem, then an image of the vagina was cut out on the column.
2. Washing with urine 
Washing with the urine of Feros.
The son of Sesostris, Feros was blind. It was most likely some kind of congenital disease that he inherited from his father, but the official Egyptian history was that he was cursed by offending the gods. Ten years after Feros went blind, an oracle told him that he could regain his sight. All Feros had to do was rinse her eyes with the urine of a woman who had never slept with anyone other than her husband.
Feros tried to do the same with his wife, but it didn't work. He was still blind, and a number of questions arose for his wife. After that, Feros made all the women in the city take turns urinating into a pot and throwing urine into his eyes. After many dozens of women, a miracle happened - vision returned. As a result, Feros immediately married this woman, and ordered the previous wife to be burned.
3. A city built on broken backs 
Akhenaten's city built on broken backs.
Akhenaten completely changed Egypt. Before he came to the throne, the Egyptians had many gods, but Akhenaten forbade belief in all gods except one: Aten, the god of the sun. He also built a whole new city, Amarna, in honor of his god. 20,000 people were involved in the construction of the city.
Based on the bones found at the local city cemetery, scientists determined that more than two-thirds of these workers broke at least one bone during construction, and a third of the people had a spinal fracture. And all this was in vain. As soon as Akhenaten died, everything he did was destroyed, and his name was erased from the history of Egypt.
4. Fake beard 
Fake beard of Hatshepsut.
Hatshepsut was one of the few women who ruled Egypt. Hatshepsut became famous for having built some of Egypt's greatest wonders, but it wasn't easy for her. Egypt may have been a little more progressive than other countries around it, but women were still not treated as equals in that country. Therefore, it was very difficult for a woman to rule Egypt. Not surprisingly, Hatshepsut ordered her men to portray her as a man.
In all the paintings, she was painted with prominent muscles and a bushy beard. She called herself "the son of Ra" and (according to some historians) wore a fake beard in real life. As a result, her son ended up doing everything to "erase" the memory of Hapsheesut from history in order to hide that the woman was a pharaoh. He did it so well that no one knew of its existence until 1903.
5. Stinky diplomacy 
The stinking diplomacy of Amasis.
Amasis was clearly not the most polite pharaoh who ever sat on the throne of Egypt. He was an alcoholic and kleptomaniac who stole his friends' things, brought them into his house, and then tried to convince his friends that those things had always belonged to him. He got the throne by force. The previous ruler sent Amasis to crush the rebellion, but when he came to the rebels, he realized that they had a pretty good chance of winning. Therefore, instead of crushing the rebellion, he decided to lead it.
Amasis sent the Pharaoh a declaration of war in a very extravagant way, raising his leg, peeing and telling the messenger: "Give Pharaoh everything that is behind me." During his reign, Amasis continued to steal things from those close to him, but now he sent for oracles to tell them whether he was guilty or not. If the oracle said that the pharaoh was innocent, then he was executed as a swindler.
6. City of Noseless Criminals 
The city of the noseless criminals of Aktisanes.
Amasis did not stay long on the throne. He was an unnecessarily harsh ruler, and he was soon overthrown. This time the revolution was led by a Nubian named Aktisanes. When he came to power, Actisanes began to fight criminals, and in a very original way. Every person who committed a crime during his reign had his nose cut off.
After that, they were exiled to the city of Rinokolura, whose name literally translated as "the city of cut off noses." It was a very strange city. It was inhabited exclusively by noseless criminals, forced to exist in some of the harshest climatic conditions in the country. The water here was polluted, and people lived in houses that they themselves built from pieces of rubble scattered everywhere.
7. 100 children from nine wives 
100 children of Ramses II.
Ramses II lived so long that people began to seriously worry that he would never die. At a time when most rulers were killed during the first few years of their reign, Ramses II lived to be 91 years old. During his lifetime, he built more statues and monuments than any of the Egyptian pharaohs.
Also, naturally, he had more women than anyone. By the time of his death, Ramses II had at least 100 children from 9 wives. When he invaded the Hittite kingdom, he refused to sign a peace treaty unless the eldest daughter of the ruler was given to him as a wife. He also did not "disdain" his daughters, marrying at least three of them.
8. Animal hatred 
Cambyses' hatred of animals.
Cambyses was not actually an Egyptian, he was a Persian and the son of Cyrus the Great. After his people conquered Egypt, Cambyses was placed at the head of this country. Almost every story that the Egyptians told about Cambyses involved how he mocked one animal or another. At the very beginning of his reign, he went to Apis, the sacred bull, whom the Egyptians considered a god.
Right in front of the priests of Apis, he pulled out a dagger and began to stab the bull, laughing at them and saying: "Such a god is worthy of the Egyptians!". And this was done not just in order to make fun of the Egyptians, he just loved to watch how animals suffer. In his spare time, he would often fight between cubs and puppies and force his wife to watch them tear each other apart.
9 Pygmy Obsession 
Pepi II's obsession with pygmies.
Pepi II was about six years old when he inherited the throne of Egypt. He was just a small child ruling a huge kingdom, so it's no surprise that his interests were about the same as those of an ordinary six-year-old boy. Shortly after Pepi II became pharaoh, an explorer named Harkhuf wrote him a letter informing him that he had met a dancing pygmy. Since then, for Pepi II, this has become an obsession.
Pepi II ordered to immediately drop all business and bring a pygmy to his palace to entertain him with dances. As a result, the whole expedition nevertheless delivered a pygmy to the boy-pharaoh. When he grew up, he was already so depraved that he ordered his slaves to strip naked, smear themselves with honey and go after him. And this was done so that the pharaoh would not be bothered by flies.
10. Refusal to die 
Mikerin's refusal to die.
Although the pharaohs were called immortal, they nevertheless died. And, although they built pyramids for the afterlife, every pharaoh actually had doubts about what would happen when he closed his eyes for the last time. When an oracle came to Pharaoh Mikerin, who ruled in the 26th century BC, and said that the ruler had only 6 years left to live, the pharaoh was horrified.
He did his best to avoid this by deciding to deceive the gods. Mikerin considered that it is possible to stop time by making the day endless. After that, he lit so many lamps every night that it seemed that the day continued in his chambers, and he never slept, arranging feasts at night.
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Brief information
Pharaoh - creative pseudonym Gleba Golubina. The young man is in his fourth year of the full-time department of the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University.
Hobby
From the age of 6 to 13, Gleb played football professionally, played for the clubs " Locomotive», « CSKA" And " Dynamo". Having entered the university, Golubin often chased the ball with classmates, and when he suddenly became a famous rapper, he almost stopped appearing at the university. But during the session, when Gleb still comes to take exams, freshmen willingly take pictures with him.
Carier start
The first portion of fame came to Pharaoh in February 2014, when the video for the song "Nothing has changed" was released. In 2015, two more videos appeared on the Web: Black Siemens And Champagne Squirt. The latter, however, was removed from YouTube, but he managed to gain as many as 10 million views! Pharaoh gained wide fame precisely thanks to the Internet and social networks, where his clips instantly scattered. Gleb does not have a producer - he is his own director and part-time leader of a creative association Dead Dynasty, which was created by a rapper from Ufa Boulevard Depo.
Critics of the Pharaoh
According to music critics, Pharaoh is a mixture of (22) and Kurt Cobain. Like, from Bieber - youth and popularity, and from Cobain - audacity and nihilism. In short, Gleb is a new hero of our time among Russian youth.
Business card
Strange "skr skr" sounds he constantly makes in the song Black Siemens. Gleb himself says that he made the same sounds Bruce Lee when he did the tricks.
Hits
Most Played Songs pharaoh- this Black Siemens, « Five minutes ago" And Champagne Squirt.
Speeches
In the summer of 2016, Gleb surprised the guests with street art in Gorky Park and appeared on stage during a break between performances by other musicians. Needless to say, the audience was delighted? And in general, at all his performances there is nowhere for an apple to fall - everyone dances, jumps and sings along.
Personal life
Pharaoh and his ex-girlfriend Katya
Gleb's personal life was stormy (before he met Alesya, of course), but little is known about the singer's ex-girlfriends. One of them was Katya Kishchuk- now she is the lead singer of the group silver.
Joan Grant (1907–1989) rose to fame in 1937 with the publication of The Winged Pharaoh. Through the main character Seketu, the daughter of the pharaoh Grant describes her past life.
Some of the storylines in the book regarding Ancient Egypt corresponded to what archaeologists knew, and some facts were confirmed later and became archaeological discoveries.
Of course, since a long-gone civilization seems to be something obscure and distant, it is impossible to prove that Joan Grant really once lived at that time.
The writer HG Wells, who believed in the authenticity of what Grant described, once told her: "You need to be a writer."
Wells suggested that Joan keep her knowledge a secret until she was "strong enough to endure the ridicule of fools."
Joan's father J.F. Marshall was a celebrated British entomologist, and writer Blanche Marshall's mother was a social psychologist.
After over a hundred sessions of "memories" under hypnosis, Grant determined the plot of each chapter of The Winged Pharaoh.
In the 1940s, the British writer Jean Overton Fuller (1915–2009) contacted several Egyptologists to investigate and verify the authenticity of what Grant "remembered".
Grant Leslie's husband was an archaeologist. According to Fuller, Joan accompanied her husband on excavations after the couple went to Egypt, and a year and a half later, Joan began to remember her long-standing connection with Egypt.
Grand recalled being the daughter of a pharaoh and a priestess who received special training in which she was also taught to remember previous incarnations. The writer remembered that she was also a pharaoh.
Grant is the first female monarch?
From the very beginning, Fuller tried to find among the historical figures known to posterity, something that matched Grant's description.
In ancient Egypt, one person could have several names at the same time. Grant said that her (Seket's) temple name was Meryneth. Joan wrote the chapter "Meryneith's Tomb" in which Seketa oversaw the construction of her own tomb.
The name is similar to that of the ancient Egyptian queen Merneith (also known as Meretneith), a controversial figure in Egyptological circles.
Merneith lived during the 1st dynasty of Ancient Egypt, but it has not yet been fully established whether she had real power. If so, then she is the first female pharaoh and also the first female monarch in history.
Fuller said that British Egyptologist Walter Emery (1902–1971) was puzzled by Merneith's tomb: "Her tomb was so huge and prominent that he felt she was a queen regent."
The genealogical tree of the pharaohs of the 1st dynasty of Ancient Egypt (about 5 thousand years ago) looks like this:
1 . Narmer / Menes / Khor-Aha (ed. note: scientists have not yet established whether these three names belong to different people or to one person),
2 . Jer (Itit),
3 . Jet (Waji),
4 . Den (Deven/Udimu).
In Egyptology, Merneith was sometimes described as Djer's daughter or Jet's wife, and Fuller suggested that Merneith and Jet were the same person.
Grant wrote that the choral name* given to Sekete was Zat, which in hieroglyphic writing was represented as a snake. Jet also means the word "snake".
This snake character was transliterated as Zet, which is close in sound to Zat.
Carol Andrews of the British Museum said: "You'll notice that Jet's name... remains controversial." The venomous snake on the middle**, the venomous snake in the middle, was usually transliterated as dj or sjt.
In addition to the snake characters, the reason Fuller took notice of Jet is that the next pharaoh after Jet was Pharaoh Den, which was the name of the main character's son in Grant's book.
Modern Egyptologists suggest that after the death of Jet, Merneith became regent for her young son Den.
If what Joan Grant "saw" is true, then the unsolved mystery of the names Narmer, Menes, and Hor-Aha is solved.
In the book, Grant explains that before Menes united Upper and Lower Egypt, Narmer ruled the southern part (Upper Egypt) and was a pharaoh in the prehistoric period, also the first pharaoh of the 1st dynasty. The descendants of Menes revered Narmer very much.
Hor-Aha and Menes may be the same person because the Egyptian word "men" means "successful". It is believed that Menes united Upper and Lower Egypt, becoming the first pharaoh of the dynastic period of Ancient Egypt, which corresponds to a successful cause.
According to the rules of the Greek language, es was added to Men's name, so today he is known as "Menes".
The writer also described Seketa's silver household items. When Grant wrote the book, the fact that the ancient Egyptians used silver at that time was unknown, but later became an archaeological discovery.
In the book, Grant wrote of Seketa's life: “In the sacrificial temple, I had only a comb and a small bronze mirror, my figure glowed faintly. Now on my crest of elephant teeth was engraved my sign - "winged pharaoh", a trained falcon sitting on a victorious ship, this is the upper part; below is my choral name - Zat, a snake is embedded, next to it is the key of life, on both sides there are symbols of power.
In the book, Grant described facts that diverge from the assumptions of scientists, for example, the appearance of horses and chariots.
At that time, scientific circles did not admit that there were horses in Ancient Egypt, it was believed that horses were brought from Asia during the Hyksos era (about 1600 BC), which is about 1500 years later than the time when Seketa lived .
However, Grant insists that the horses were brought in during the First Dynasty because certain elements of her story had already been authenticated.
According to Grant's book, the horses of the ancient Egyptians were brought by the Zumas (ancient Incas). In academic circles, the opinion that horses were brought to Egypt by 1600 B.C. e., was neither confirmed nor refuted.
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* One of the five names in the royal title of Ancient Egypt.
** Four-coal coat of arms in ancient Egypt, which contained the name of the pharaoh.
Pharaoh (Pharaoh) who is this?
Real name— Gleb Gennadievich Golubin
Native city- Moscow
Nickname- PHARAOH (Pharaoh)
Activity— Rapper
Family status- Not married
Growth — 181
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PHARAOH (Gleb Golubin) biography
Gleb Golubin, better known as PHARAOH (Pharaoh), is a Russian rap artist, leader of the Dead Dynasty creative association.
Childhood Pharaoh
On a frosty evening on January 30, 1996, Gleb Gennadievich Golubin was born, whom many fans of the rap stage know under the pseudonym PHARAOH. The future musician was born in the family of a Moscow businessman. Like many boys of those years, Gleb dreamed of becoming a professional football player and spent many hours at the stadium, exhausting himself with hard training. In his free time from sports, Gleb was not much different from other Russian children. He studied diligently, tried to do his homework as best as possible, played the console and explored the wonderful world of music, listening to his favorite compositions for hours.
As the rapper admitted in an interview with Snob magazine, even then he was hooked on the hip-hop stage. Most of all, in those years, he liked the texts of such a famous American team as Kid Cudi. During his school years, which he spent at the Moscow Gymnasium No. 1409, Gleb got acquainted with the work of no less famous musical groups: and.
At the age of 13, Gleb Golubin had to forget about his career as a football player under the strong pressure of the arguments of his parents, who convinced him that if he was seriously injured, he would eventually be left without a livelihood. Moreover, the father of the boy, who once worked as a coach of the yard football team, claimed that his son did not have the characteristics for a successful career as a football player.
Musical career
How many years has the rapper been making music? Having given up sports, the future rapper completely plunged into the world of music. He decides to record his first music track at the age of 16, taking a pseudonym for himself - Leroy Kid, later changing it to Castro The Silent. In the same year, with the support of his parents, the young man moved to the United States, where he comprehended American musical culture for six months.
Returning to Russia, Golubin entered the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University, while simultaneously participating in the work of such a musical group as Grindhouse. At the end of 2013, he visited the recording studio of his close friends, where he recorded the musical composition "Cadillac" for the Wadget mixtape. All the friends of the young man who were in the studio during the recording were very impressed with how he gave himself to work. The following year, the recorded mixtape was released, and a number of works from it later received their own video sequence in the form of separately filmed clips.
In mid-2014, fans of Russian rap enthusiastically greeted the second mixtape of rapper Pharaoh, called "PHLORA". And in less than half a year, fans were buying up a new six-track album by a rising Russian rap star called "PAYWALL".
The next 2015 was also fruitful for the singer. In the middle of summer, the third mixtape is released, called "DOLOR", which means "Pain" in Latin. Three months after this event, Gleb Golubin presented his fans with the release collaboration "Rage Mode (Rare Action)", which was recorded in collaboration with the i61 team.
Four months later, the new creation of Gleb Golubin saw the light - the album "Plaksheri", which became the product of joint work with the rap artist Boulevard Depo. After the release of this music album, the performer decides to experiment a little by recording a video for the track "Phosphorus", performing a piece of music using the screaming technique. Less than a month later, another experiment was completed: a lyric video was shot for the musical work “Let's Stay at Home”.
The release of the new album, which included experimental musical compositions, took place on July 14, 2016. The recording of the solo album called "PHOSPHOR" also featured such rap artists as Acid Drop King, Jeembo, Scryptonite,
and Techno. In early September of the same year, Pharaoh recorded a joint musical collection, consisting of six pieces, with the team. The new album is called "CAKE FACTORY".
PHARAOH - Wildly for example In the summer of 2017, the rapper released another studio album called " Pink Phloyd”, which included 15 songs, including the track, which became a meme and gave rise to a huge number of parodies - PHARAOH - Wildly for example. The album was to the taste of all fans of PHARAOH's work
PHARAOH and PHARAOH Personal life
Gleb Golubin throughout his musical career did not suffer from a lack of female attention. After a small study, a number of Russian media found out that the young rapper Pharaoh had been dating a girl named Natasha Melnikova for many years. Almost nothing is known about the first passion of a musical artist.
Katya Kishchuk and Pharaoh
In the spring of 2016, the rap artist was caught in a romantic relationship with a member of the Silver pop group.
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But already at the beginning of 2017, the young performer was first seen with a scandalous fashion model, and part-time daughter of the famous Russian tennis player, Alesya Kafelnikova. The newly held couple became known when journalists photographed young people at the exit from the cinema.
They did not really hide from camera flashes, and, without hesitation, expressed romantic feelings to each other. As the model admitted, she had previously been a fan of the work of her future young man. But already in May, information appeared on the girl’s page on social networks that Ales Kafelnikova and rapper Pharaoh were taking a break in their relationship. Soon, rumors appeared in the youth media that Alesya's famous father, who did not like the image and lifestyle of a musical artist, became an obstacle to relations. There is no information about the name of the rapper's new girlfriend and whether she exists yet.
Gleb Golubin now
In the fall of 2016, rapper Pharaoh wrote on his page on the social network that he was ready to leave the stage, because he had done so much for the development of Russian rap. The musician's fans decided that this was the end of the performer's career, but a month later a new music track "RARRIH" was released to the public.
At the moment Pharaoh is one of the most popular rappers of the Russian rap scene.
Recently, they began to notice him in the company of the leader of the Leningrad group - Gleb also starred in his video "Leningrad - ChPKh"
Wikipedia tells about the life and work of the rapper, and Gleb also maintains accounts on VK, Instagram and Twitter.
Pharaoh in the clip Leningrad - CHPH Pharaoh (Pharaoh) - the idol of youth, a new phenomenon in modern Russian rap culture. He is a representative of the so-called "cloud-rap", which is characterized by slow beats, smooth reading and philosophical, often depressing lyrics (although disputes about Pharaoh's belonging to cloud-rap do not stop to this day). At the age of 19, Pharaoh, whose real name is Gleb Golubin, became the leader and ideological inspirer of the Dead Dynasty formation, the leitmotif of which was a defiant mixture of nihilism and rudeness. The main theme of his tracks is drugs, girls and sex.
Childhood and family of Gleb Golubin (rapper Pharaoh)
Gleb Gennadyevich Golubin was born and raised in Moscow, in the Izmailovo district, in the family of a sports functionary. His father, Gennady Golubin, was the general director of the Dynamo football club, and later became the head of a company specializing in sports marketing.Rapper Pharaoh as a child
Naturally, the parents predicted a sports career for their son. From the age of six, the boy was professionally involved in football. At a young age, Gleb managed to play for Lokomotiv, CSKA and Dynamo. Until the age of thirteen, his life consisted mainly of daily training and schooling. But in adolescence, the realization came that the second Pele would not work out of him, and his father was not enthusiastic about his son's sporting achievements.
Football has been replaced by music. At the age of 8, Gleb became interested in the work of the German group Rammstein, for which he even enrolled in German language courses. Another teen idol was the American rapper Snoop Dogg. The musical sympathies of the future musician did not find support among classmates (then other performers were in vogue), but this did not bother Gleb.
At the age of 16, the young man left for America for six months. There he finally decided on his musical tastes and opened up new horizons for creativity.
Rapper career Pharaoh
In 2013, Gleb returned to Moscow and entered the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. At the same time, he recorded his first track Cadillac and began to perform as part of the Grindhouse group under the pseudonym Pharaoh.But the video clip for the track "BLACK SIEMENS" brought real fame to the novice musician. In it, Gleb raps against the backdrop of a white Lincoln, which Dmitry Dyuzhev drove in the cult TV series Brigada. The song constantly repeats the sounds of "skr-skr", which later became his signature "trick".
Rapper Pharaoh - skrrt
Tired of the constant questions from fans about what this mysterious "skr-skr" means, Pharaoh eventually explained that this was the sound that Bruce Lee made during training. Another version said that "skrt" is an imitation of the sound of car tires.
Pharaoh's next video "Champagne Squirt" has nearly 10 million views on YouTube. After the premiere of the video, the phrase "Champagne squirt in the face" spread across social networks, and the Pharaoh became a truly iconic character among the youth audience.
Since 2014, Pharaoh has been collaborating with rappers Fortnox Pockets, Toyota RAW4, Acid Drop King, Jeembo and Southgarden as part of the Dead Dynasty project.
Pharaoh - 5 Minutes Ago
Due to the mysterious image that Pharaoh cultivates on social media, fantastic rumors constantly spread about his life. In 2015, information appeared that the rapper died of a drug overdose. After that, Pharaoh released a new album Phosphor (“Phosphorus”), the video for the composition from which “Let's stay at home” again gained a huge number of views on the Web.
In February 2017, he traditionally posted on the Web a new track "Unplugged (Interlude)", which was out of the rapper's general work - it was recorded with a guitar. Fans of the Pharaoh suggested that this is a composition from the upcoming acoustic album, which Pharaoh has mentioned more than once before.
Pharaoh's personal life
Pharaoh does not lack girlfriends. One of his ex-girlfriends is the current soloist of the Silver group Katya Kishchuk.At the beginning of 2017, Gleb began dating the scandalous model, the daughter of the famous tennis player Evgeny Kafelnikov Alesya.
For the first time they appeared in public in one of the capital's cinemas, openly demonstrating their feelings for each other. The model has repeatedly stated that she became a fan of his work long before they met in person. However, in May of the same year, Alesya Kafelnikova wrote on social networks that she was taking a break in relations with the Pharaoh. Information appeared in the media that the father of the model insisted on parting, who did not like the halo of "notoriety" around her chosen one.
pharaoh now
In August 2018, Pharaoh presented to the audience a new album "Phuneral" (play on words: pharaoh + funeral, funeral). It is noteworthy that Sergey Shnurov and his Ruble project took part in the recording of the tracks "Flashcoffin" and "Solaris".Pharaoh-Smart