A survey of the second half of ancient Egyptian history and culture from the New Kingdom to Cleopatra. This period saw the rise and fall of Egypt as a superpower and its participation in the wider multicultural world of the 1st Millennium BCE. This course covers the warrior kings of the New Kingdom, the political role of queens, the heretics who dared to challenge political and religious norms, and the famed reigns of Tutankhamun, Cleopatra, Ramesses the Great, and the female king Hatshepsut.