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Tutankhamun | 2. Egypt in the era of the boy king

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What Was the Religious Roll of Pharaohs in Egypt?

By the later part of the eighteenth dynasty, egypt was riding high. But what did this comfortable position mean for life inside egypt? It's very interesting that development away from the military because looking at it from an outsider's view, and its not nowhere explaind so we' kind of guessing here the religious aspect of life becomes far more important as the military aspect of life seems to diminish. In this era, the pharaoh was in charge of all the cults in egypt, and there were lots and lots of them. And the egyptians worshipped many hundreds of gods. That's, that's a conservative number, probably many thousands. Because also gods could combine. So

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