Crown of the Two Lands

For three thousand years — longer than the whole span from Cleopatra to our own day — the land of Egypt was ruled by god-kings: living embodiments of the falcon Horus, lords of the Two Lands, charged with holding up the order of the world. From the shadowy king who first joined the southern valley to the northern delta, through the builders of the great pyramids, the woman who ruled as a man, the ...