The Pharaohs and Their People contains depictions of old Egyptian life and history with 26 intricate and authentic illustrations and maps. Historian E. Berkley reverently and poetically describes the main Egyptian pharaohs, writings, temples and events, such as The Pyramid Builders, Instructions' of Amenemhat i, Invasion of the Hyksos, The Eighteenth Dynasty-Queen Hatasu and Thothmes iii.; Amenhotep, Rameses the Great and more.