[Sonic Youth 37]

Oh god, Egypt would be awesome, but I don't really want it to go there.

Kind of off-topic, but a few days ago I made of list of my 10 Favorite Pharaohs. haha.

1. Djoser (3rd Dynasty): The OG pyramid building. The first, ladies and gentlemen. His stepped pyramid isn't the Great or even the second greatest, but his tomb set the stage for all the others.

2. Khufu (4th Dynasty): The builder of the Great Pyramid a Giza. One of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world and the only one still standing. No big statues of him appear to exist to this day, but that doesn't matter because he has the pyramid!

3. Ramesses II (19th Dynasty): The big one. Ramesses The Great. He is responsible for perhaps the largest building projects of the Egyptians. Abu Simbel, The Ramesseum, numerous colossi in his own likeness. He's also the old one with the hooked nose.

4. Tutankhamun (18th Dynasty): Born Tutankaten (The Living Image of Aten), he was possibly (probably) the son of Akhenaten. After the death of Akhenaten and the re-institution of the old religion, he changed his name to Tutankhamun (The Living Image of Amun). We all know about his sealed tomb, but he's a little trivia tidbit. Inside his tomb there were two female fetuses thought to be the stillborn daughters of Tutankhamun and his wife/possible half-sister.

5. Akhenaten (18th Dynasty): He was born as Amenhotep IV, but when he adopted the monotheistic worship of Aten (the physical disc of the Sun), he changed his name, which means "He who worships Aten". Akhenaten is very strange and is depicted as such. There's too much to list here, so the research, if you choose to accept it, is up to you. Suffice it to say, he wasn't popular and was completely out of his tree.

6. Khafre (4th Dynasty): Builder of the 2nd largest Pyramid at Giza and probably the Sphinx too. That's about it.

7. Psusennes I (21st Dynasty): He had a cool burial mask. In my opinion, better than Tut's. Not much else is known about him, or at least I don't know it.

8. Thutmose III (18th Dynasty): He was a pretty cool guy. He co-ruled for a while with Hatshepsut. He was also a very successful military leader.

9. Seti I (19th Dynasty): Rounding out my four-in-a-row Pharaohs (Akhenaten, Tutankhamun, Seti I, and Ramesses II), Seti I is the son of Ramesses I and has a well-preserved mummy and some cool other things that I'm not 100% sure about. He appeared to be a builder as well, but not on the scale of his son, Ramesses II

10. Amenhotep III (18th Dynasty): He built the Temple at Luxor and also added on greatly to Karnak. He is father of Akhenaten and I have nothing really else to say about him.