If the Egyptian Pharaohs were given a chance to live today how might they react?

They might wonder where all the slaves are.

They would try to re-establish their power over Egypt, then promptly get beheaded by ISIS.
Ironic, I know.

“Where’s my pyramid?”

If they know modern languages and the world situation, then they’ve been observing things all along somehow. Perhaps through the eyes and ears of housecats.

If they don’t, then you’ve got an awful lot to teach them. In the meantime, they’d probably act like they were assuming they were in some phase of their afterlife mythology, but one where no one could speak their language… well, I suppose if you could pull this off, you’d be smart enough to bring along some scholars who think they can speak Ancient Egyptian of the appropriate era… I wonder what the state of that skillset is.

Really it would be an afterlife stage for them, which for them already included the concept of unfamiliar states of existence. I expect they might do rather well with it.

They would be expert’s in NSFW, and would rise to the top again.

I think that they would be thrilled that their elaborate precautions (mummification to keep them intact after death) were a gamble that paid off.

And they would be surprised that when they chased the Jews out of Egypt, the Jews went and established Israel right next door.

One thing the Pharaohs would not approve of is Islam. Egyptian Pharaohs predate Mohammed and believed in multiple gods.

@elbanditoroso, they weren’t preserved intact, though. Brain, lungs, and other vital organs were removed in the embalming process.

“Whaddaya mean, I can’t marry and breed with my own sister?”

You could put them up in an average house or apartment and they would probably still think they’re living well above everyone if they did not know better.

In some ways they already do.
Its called DNA genetics.
Handed down to the descendants.
If a Pharaoh were to be brought to the present and all intact say like frozen in ice and recovered.
I would think that the shock would numb his/her mind at the fantastic advances.
And I bet that would be too much to absorb and thus leave them wishing for their life and times back.
It would be too much to take in mentally and they would surly feel alienated to society.

If they were in Cairo, they might ask, “what the fuck happened to the Sphinx’s nose?”

They might say, “there used to be a beer stand right around the corner from Khufu’s pyramid, but things went downhill after that Moses kid brought all the locusts.”

@Inspired_2write Ancient Egyptians had (several different versions of) pretty impressively developed afterlife cosmology, concepts of what the soul is, and other spiritual concepts. I don’t know that modern developments would shock or numb them any more than trying to study their models of souls and the afterlife would shock or numb the typical modern person.

I tend to think they’d be curious about the modern world, but also perhaps nonplussed to find themselves reincarnated into a previous body and (probably) treated like a curiosity. I think they’d also tend to find our mainstream culture’s lack of spiritual perspectives… and what’s (not) left of their own culture… very disappointing.

What inspired me to ask is, I wondered if anyone would care to imagine what they would expect next.

If they had all our advances would they still want a pyramid, or something else. Maybe they’d immediately want to build space craft and go find Ra.

Anyway the Pyramids were impressive. They’d probably want to top that. How??

I bet they’d like Brazil.

@Zaku
Yes I have read on it as well.
They prepared for he after life by having all there possessions buried with them, not realizing that the world would be vastly different
They assumed that the body will resurface all intact .
They believed that the soul would come back and reenter that same body ( in tact)?
Primitive thinking people.
It is thought that another being visited this earth at that time and assisted with technology to create these structures.
Interesting but not proved as yet.
Another point that I had read years ago were that Societies were more advanced than realized but all of that knowledge is lost to us.

Here is Ramesses II actual passport. Seems relevant.

@Inspired_2write “Primitive thinking people”? How so? I would tend to say the opposite.

They certainly gave more thought to spirituality and the afterlife than most modern people. And what they left as writings seems to me extremely sophisticated, not primitive at all.

Also, Christianity heavily appropriated their (and others’) concepts for their own Bible, and pretend like it’s original material. Many modern folk who might think ancient Egyptians were primitive are Christian and think their god somehow “wrote” that Bible and that it’s all original ideas.The only things that look more sophisticated to me about modern Christianity are its means of indoctrinating and leading people, and of gathering wealth and influence.

notAnother point that I had read years ago were that Societies were more advanced than realized but all of that knowledge is lost to us.”

It is thought that an advanced race lived among them and thus society was improved.
Knowledge of that is still hidden/buried..possibly under the pyramids?

I think they seem to have been quite advanced (and built the pyramids), without positing another race.