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Egyptian pharaohs: everything you wanted to know

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What Did They Study to Be Pharaoh?

Tutencaman has writing palates in his tomb. We think that he was trained in reading and writing as well. It is difficult to know what they actually studied to be pharaoh, but we have got some indications. The problem you didn't quite know who was going to become the next king because there was very high child mortality in those days. So tuten karman probably had an elder brother, but he was trained just in case. And as it turned out, he came to the throne.

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