A Pharaoh empowering a foundation or building makes the <link="proto:Villager Egyptian">Laborers</link> working there build faster, gather faster and carry more.  A Pharaoh may also coax more <link="topic:Favor">Favor</link> from the gods by empowering a Monument.  The Pharaoh is a decent fighter, but it is his ability to heal units and devastating attacks on myth units that make him a good addition to an attacking army.  When a Pharaoh dies he is reborn amongst his people at a <link="proto:Settlement Level 1">Town Center</link>. Set Pharaohs can summon animals.

The material wealth and relative isolation of the Nile Valley allowed a monarchial government to arise in Egypt at a very early date. There was little need for a strong man to hold sway by might for the defense of the realm and the control of food production. Instead, the pharaoh came to be accepted as the living god of the world who was responsible for the daily passage of the sun and annual flooding of the river, the two events upon which food production depended. The greatest of the pharaohs were also the battle leaders of their armies and the builders of Egypt’s greatest monuments.