Ancient Egypt - Three Thousand Years of History | Empire Builders | Free Documentary History 

Every time I see a shot of the pyramids behind Cairo, blows me away. Friggin mind blowing every time.

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Fascinating stuff man

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Well we have Newgrange in Ireland, which is older than The Pyramids, and has a party trick to boot!

@@jfinn3575 it has a party trick??

@@Whoopi-Depardieu Yep every year around the Solstice (it used to be bang on the longest day, but astrological wobble) the sun hits it in such a way that the entire inner sanctum lights up. They only allow a limited number of people in so tickets to see it are usually sold out months or years in advance and have to be distributed by lottery!

More 'Empire Builders' episodes are coming soon. Starting this friday (July 23rd) about the Roman Empire.

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Surely you wudnt have to traverse that far to get somewhat amazing handle on the history that's been created on higher-up continent so to speak

Where's London???

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Find them in the Vatican and Rome. They raided egypt after the death of Queen Cleopatra!

If they weren't there.....they'd be Gone!!

Unfortunately they are all over the world

Sure

There was do, there was a lot of do not.

I listened and Zahi Hawas was not mentioned once.

In ancient civilizations pyramids were very prevalent.. Egyptians, aztecs, mayans, even some places in Turkey and India.. These places were thousands upon thousands of miles apart without the benefit of modern education or technology like radio or TV to make them aware of each others presence let alone desire for pyramids. Most of them didn't even know of the existence of other countries/cultures/civilization's yet they all had this fatuation with pyramids.. And it wasn't just pyramids, was also sun worship, the ability to accurately measure time based on position of the sun and to navigate correctly using the stars. Advanced languages based on symbols and advanced arithmetic based on sticks and stones.. The general intelligence and iq is not even a quarter of what it used to be back then which makes you wonder if these great civilization's were so intelligent and advanced then what happened to them to just make them disappear.? And how did they gain all this knowledge and intelligence which we can't replicate now despite setting foot on the moon.? 🤷‍♂️

???? I am but a feeble minded human. I don't understand.

Bang on correct

The STEP pyramid was the FIRST one and it is still standing. There is over 100 pyramids within the 100 miles between the Step Pyramid and the final 3 on the Giza plateau.(which we see all the time) Some of the other pyramids are made out of mud brick. Now it occasionally rains in Egypt and it rains hard. So the mud brick ones would dissolve and become a mud pile in the middle of the desert sand. The quick slap it together type of pyramid as some Pharaohs may have lived a short time and then died.(maybe a half dozen years).

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Do you mean Tut Ench Amun?

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There are some words that disagree ur statements in the bible

I hope you can!

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You should give yourself a medal, made of potato

Get updated! This is old outdated thinking and utterly inaccurate!

I am far from the first viewer, but I liked it too! :o)

No one cares. Get a life.

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But it is still a whole skeleton. The reason it is black is because of spontaneous combustion(something not known about then and even now with oil soaked cloth) My dad tried an experiment on his lunch break as he was working with linseed oil rubbing down doors. Seed oil was natural oils from seeds(linseed is low grade rye seed that they mashed up to extract the oil. Which is used in oil paint on a house. Any ways that and other seed oils were extracted from other seeds. The cloth ribbon is soaked in the oils and then wrapped around the body many layers thick. Perfume is extracted from flowers so that is added to the oiled linen. Then the mummy is put into an air tight granite sarcophagus which is put inside another one and another one. Kind of like packaging. . My dad had an oil soaked rag which he folded up nice and neat many layers thick and held his hand closed. After 30 minutes he opened the rag up and saw that the inner layers had caught on fire and burned to black ash. . Now imagine the pharaoh has been wrapped up in many layers of oil soaked cloth and put in an airtight box for 3000 YEARS. He is basically burning up inside the wrappings. They ALL burned up inside the wrappings. No one saw the smoke because the lid fit was perfectly tight. So all old pharaohs are forgotten by the younger generations. The fact there is any skeleton means good condition. All the other people have turned into dust.

Can't even spell fairy

Then you explain how it got there. You got nothing.

@@walmartbag5698 Scottish Celt. Pretty sure I got me spelling correct in English!

How do you think they we're built. I'd like to hear your theory

Conspiracy nut do you have a better explanation we need a good laugh

I get your point.. It's humanely impossible.. Something is hiding or hidden

You COULD go on, but you have proved you are not that imaginative. So what about the 400 ton block? Also this was done in Guatemala by the Maya(that came before the Aztecs) They too did it without the wheel. Wheels don't work in sand. So, it is known by 2 ancient civilizations. Then there is those dudes on Easter Island and the large stone head carvings. Again another primitive that could do stuff that you can't imagine. So 3 ancient societies that did stuff we still cannot explain. Tough to be you. What 50 ton block? Average block size was 2 1/2 tons(so, 5000lbs)=the weight of a 1960's car. You know if you had 300,000 guys there your fridge could not hold that much free beer...as these guys will be given free beer...most would just stand around and watch the "game". I am more amazed they were able to make a rope out of grass. . No 10 ton blocks either. Limestone after a rain is more greasy and there are no hills so it is a slimy slide. Maybe? All they had for animals is a burro. The camel originates out of Syria by this time many pyramids were already built. . We know it is not Martians. Yet, it was done.

North African is not the same thing as Sub-Saharan African. Two very genetically dissimilar groups. The term _"African"_ here is way too broad.

I agree

its all concetration camp like labor

Most of this was done by well paid skilled workers who flocked to these projects for the benefits. Slaves were used to do household tasks mainly.

Nonsense

No, no slaves were building royal buildings for the God king. It was the Egyptians who built it with scary magic. It was an honor to work on the structures(for that Pharaoh may "grant you " a spot in the stars with him. Besides that, for 4 months the farmers could not work their plot of land to grow food because of the ANNUAL flooding of the Nile which flooded all the land worthy of growing food. So the farmers were just raising a barn trick as they did not like sitting around doing nothing. Slaves would never get the chance to work on the "Mid" or any other temple. At most slaves built the town the workers lived at...the Qwicky Mart or peoples houses, or dig outhouse pits by hand in the sand.

Pharaohs wore wigs, that's why

No blondes....red hair...might be due to mummification processes?

Yes we do have the right. We do it all the time . We don't only destroy the legacy of civilizations , we destroy their pepole as well if we can to to benefit from their land. It called colonization

They took out as much as they could find and move it to higher ground because of the tourist industry. We had the knowledge of cutting up rock and moving it to higher ground. You can bet the area was thoroughly explored and everything was put on higher ground as it was. Do we have the right? Yup.

I wanna know where did they get the silver from. Egypt has copper and gold. Silver is not a precious metal because it tarnishes to black(basically it rusts)

Why?

Basically the same fairytale the Egyptians were fed.

North African. Not sub-Saharan African. There's a huge difference.