eserafina42 's review for:

Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt by Bob Brier

4.0

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A knowledgeable lecturer whose passion for his subject is obvious from his presentation. I could wish that he had spent more time on some of the earlier, lesser-known pharaohs than devoting two out of three lectures to the relatively unimportant (at least in his own time) Tutankhamun and three to Alexander the Great, the Ptolemies in general, and Cleopatra, but they were interesting all the same.

Spoiler

This is from 2004, and unfortunately, his theory about King Tut being murdered has not stood the test of time. The machinations that we do know happened could also be explained by the chaos that would ensue when a young king dies suddenly without heirs.