The pharaohs were both political and religious leaders. ... Some pharaohs were competent and some were evil, but those who have made it into the history books were usually a little unconventional.

Which pharaoh was evil?

The Egyptian King Ramses II is best known as the biblical evil Pharaoh who freed his nation's Hebrew slaves only after a series of ugly plagues convinced him the gods really, really, really wanted him to let those people go.

Were there any good pharaohs?

Ramesses II was the third pharaoh of the 19th dynasty and one of the greatest pharaohs of the New Kingdom of Egypt. Egyptians often call him “the Great Ancestor.” Ramesses is said to have had a victorious military career that highly benefited the kingdom.