"Pharoah" Is A Greek Word

Mark A Cella is a world renowned archeologist and professor of Egyptology at San Diego State University in San Diego California. He’s led over a dozen digs and expeditions to the pyramids and the Valley of the Kings over the past fifteen years.

Today: “Pharoah”

The term "per-aa" means "great house" and developed via the Greek, into the word we now use today. "Per-aa" was originally used to describe the royal court or the state itself, in the sense that the "great house" was the entity responsible for the taxation of the lesser houses ("perw"), which were the temple lands and private estates. From the late 18th Dynasty and onwards, "per-aa" had begun to be used to refer to the actual king himself.