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Reasons Why The Pharaohs Rule The Government
ruled by the pharaoh other people, of the hierarchy, help rule the government they specialize in different places in the government. pharaoh was considered a god wives of pharaohs were the 2 most powerful after the pharaohs the other leader of the government under the pharaoh was the visier the viziers job was overseer of the land

About 1000 years after pyramids came out they began to go out of style because of tomb robberies
After this the rulers or pharaohs were hidden away in rock tombs if tomb robbers were found guilty they were burnt alive, drowned, or beheaded. pharaohs were buried with their treasures little is know about Tutankhamun's life, he was likely to be Akhenaten's younger brother or son nobody knows how Tutankhamun died

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