I can heartily recommend Ancient Evenings by Norman Mailer (
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ancient-Eve...cient+evenings). Although slow to start, it really immerses you into the culture of the time. Some may find it a bit "literary", but I have read it twice, and it still lingers in my mind today.
"Norman Mailer’s dazzlingly rich, deeply evocative novel of ancient Egypt breathes life into the figures of a lost era: the eighteenth-dynasty Pharaoh Rameses and his wife, Queen Nefertiti; Menenhetet, their creature, lover, and victim; and the gods and mortals that surround them in intimate and telepathic communion. Mailer’s reincarnated protagonist is carried through the exquisite gardens of the royal harem, along the majestic flow of the Nile, and into the terrifying clash of battle. An extraordinary work of inventiveness, Ancient Evenings lives on in the mind long after the last page has been turned."