Pharaoh

The high price of not listening: What Pharaoh teaches us about power and humility

Pharaoh ignored every warning until his nation collapsed. His mistake isn’t ancient, it’s painfully familiar today.

Statue of a mans head wearing headphones.
 The mask of Tutankhamun is projected during a digital exhibition in Bordeaux, France, in 2025.

Parashat Va'era: Between Pharaoh and Persia, pride before a fall

Parsha.

Parashat Va’era: Why being good is the secret strength we forget

The encounter at the burning bush lays the bedrock of monotheism. Illustrative.

Parashat Shemot: Learning God


What do Pharaoh, Moses teach Israel about its leadership crisis?

MIDDLE ISRAEL: There was a time when leaders thought of things larger than themselves.

DAVID BEN-GURION showing guests around Sde Boker.

New tech shows what Rameses II's face looked like

New facial rendering software was combined with software used to identify criminals and victims in the UK for the project.

 Facial rendering of Ramesses II

Archaeologists discover mysterious ancient Egyptian tomb

The identity of the figure interred within the tomb is still unknown, but Egyptian experts think it may belong to someone from the 18th Dynasty.

 View of the Great Pyramids of Giza during  the fourth annual Pyramids Half Marathon named "Race Through History" in 2022, in Giza, Egypt December 10, 2022.

Two tombs containing 60 mummies discovered by Spanish archaeologists

The two tombs discovered went down six meters deep, according to the director of the archaeology mission Francisco J. Martín.

 View of the Great Pyramids of Giza during  the fourth annual Pyramids Half Marathon named "Race Through History" in 2022, in Giza, Egypt December 10, 2022.

Historian claims Solomon was not King of Israel, but an Egyptian Pharaoh

Was the story of King Solomon's life whitewashed and rewritten by biblical scribes? A historian claims that this is the only logical explanation why there is no trace of his gold left in Israel.

 A depiction of the Biblical King Solomon of Israel

Israeli archeologists discover 'once-in-a-lifetime find' of ancient pottery under beach

The burial cave in Israel from the Late Bronze Age, the time of Pharaoh Ramses II – possibly from the story of the Exodus from Egypt - contained dozens of intact objects.

 The vessels from 3,300 years ago discovered at Palmachim Beach.

Parashat Va’erah: Contrasting households

On the moral plane, the Torah taught the world how to see. That remains our responsibility, our struggle and our task.

‘Hand of God in Exodus and the Crossing of the Red Sea,’ wall painting from the Dura-Europas synagogue in Syria

Parashat Va’erah: Pharoah’s free will

To be a people with free will means to apply, in the loftiest sense, our uniqueness as humans created in the image of God.

'Moses before the Pharaoh,’ a sixth-century miniature from the Syriac Bible of Paris

Tomb of Ramses II's treasurer unearthed in Egypt

The tomb of Ptah-M-Wia, the treasurer of Pharaoh Ramesses II, was unearthed at the Saqqara necropolis by Egyptian archaeologists.

 Saqqara, entrance to the funerary complex of Djoser

Biblical-era Egyptian stele discovered by farmer

The stele is accredited to the reign of the pharaoh Apries and may discuss a military campaign of his. One campaign saw him try to fight the Babylonians as they sought to destroy the First Temple.

An ancient slab depicting the pharaoh Apries (Illustrative).