History Summarized: Hatshepsut 

"Learning his A, B, squiggle" Lost it.

"Even 3500 years ago there was still at least a thousand more years of history that people saw as worth saving" Jeez, Egypt is old. I forget how staggeringly old it is compared to most other civilizations and it always amazes me.

I don't know if this is true but I recall reading somewhere that once you are forgotten in the land of the living you cease to exist in the afterlife, so I'm just imagining all the Pharaohs chilling in their special VIP club section of the afterlife when BANG *Hatsheput kicking open the doors of the afterlife in silk robes dripping gold while foghorns blare in the background:* surprise bitches

Ok true story and this just happened minutes ago. So I'm in class waiting for it to start and all of a sudden I hear "Hey I love those guys!" behind me. Apparantly my political science prof. watches you guys!

Last year I did a paper comparing Hatshepsut and Akhenaten's ruling styles, and came to the conclusion that she was definitely a better leader. This is due to the fact that she didn't piss off the Egyptians for about 2 generations because she destroyed their culture to instead make her the supreme all power god-like-figure, which inevitably went wrong and her son to apologise on her behalf. As well as NOT doing that, she strengthened Egypt's connection with the surrounding civilizations and this enormously benefited Egypt economically, cultrally and socially. Long story short, she was really cool. I got 100% 😉

Also, in Egyptian Mythology, your existence in the afterlife depended on people remembering you in the present. So the whole un-personing was a way bigger deal than it seems ; later pharoes tried to remove her from existence.

As an Egyptian it hurts me how much history we lost as an inevitable consequence of time, and as an engineer the fantasy of where we would be right now if all those engineering techniques weren't also lost never seizes to fascinate me.

Glad you covered Hatshepsut, she often gets the shaft in favor of Cleopatra in Egyptology. Perhaps you could do episode on Nefratiti sometime in the future?

(Sees new video) (Realized it relates to the next class period for western civ) *unholy happy screeching*

Between this an Ankhenaten, it's like the standard operating procedure for problematic Egyptian royalty was "destroy every record of them and claim credit for their successes." I wonder how many of these lost pharaohs we just don't know about thanks to this.

I think "dumpster fire of a family tree" is probably the best description of the Ptolemaic dynasty i've ever heard. That's so fucking accurate. :'D

Hatshepsut is an interesting case herself. So is Egypt's burial rituals, having your heart in a jar is...weirdly cool.

If I remember correctly the importance of being remembered after death can't be understated in ancient and even some modern Egyptian culture and the destruction of Hatshepsut's name could almost be called a murder as you would almost literally be killing their spirit. which makes it all the more terrible that it was done to her.

Age of Mythology music is always a win!

Ancient egyptian advisors- Holy horus! we need to restore the temples and organized the trades ties to get money! Other egyptian guy- but or pharaoh is just a kid.. Hatshepsut- don't worries guys, just give me the beard I can handle it

Hey. A ruler who doesn't ever wear a shirt gets a thumbs up from me. Committing to the bit when you, yourself have some bits of your own deserves respect.

Ancient Egyptian proto-archaeology is fascinating: their notion that “ancient is holier” had them going after ruined temples and restoring them to try and get to the true primeval religion

While he was still learning his a,b,squiggles. Best line from best girl blue 😂

Knowing that a lot of artwork in egypt has a lot to do with the afterlife,it sounds incredibly cruel for her image to be erased...

Ancient Egyptians were great at recording history as it happened... and terrible about revising it to better suit their self-image.

*didn’t realize there were two people on this channel* HOLY CRAP IM OBLIVIOUS WELP

I'm not sure if you do Requests but honestly??? It's worth a shot. Have you ever considered a doing a video on Akhenaten and Egypt's Amarna Period? I don't know about you, but I find it incredible that an entire Civilization's Pantheon can be virtually overwritten in one Pharaoh's 17 year reign, as well as entirely switching the Civilization's Canon after having it been somewhat consistent for almost 1800 years.

Ok, I already watched it, and it was awesome, congratulations! :D Hatshepsut is one of my favourite pharaohs/Egyptian characters, and obviously, she deserves it. I mean, her name even survived the damnatio memoriae! I only have to add that it would be cool to know more about her daughter Neferure. I investigated, but I don't know what happened with her

I remember learning about her! I was so fascinated as a kid because all of the other pharaohs were male and as a little girl I was was so taken with the idea that a female could wield so much power and just as well (if not better) than her male counterparts! I think my brother even checked out books on Egypt for me because I became so obsessed.

I used to talk about her all the time and everyone in my class REFUSED to believe that she wore a beard like male pharaohs did

Huzzah for one of the most badass women in history. Her mortuary temple complex was one of my favorite architectural marvels to study in the (extensive) Egyptian Artwork unit in a high school AP Art History class.

We were just learning about Hatshepsut today!!

Yay, more Egyptian stuff! Also, two days after this, my local store had a program about Hatshepsut showing and I mentioned some of the info from this to the cashier. Tonight I went back in and the guy was amazed that the stuff I mentioned was also in the program. Of course I told him about you!

thank god you did a video on hatshepsut... everyone only knows cleopatra (not a bad thing but? lol) and this is just an amazing video

I finally commented! Also, Egypt! Also, temples! Also, "A, B, squiggles!" 😂

Holy shit Blue you talk so much slower then Red.

This isn't the only time that Egypt has tried to forget a pharaoh ever existed. I think they did the same thing to pharaoh Tut's father Akhenaten, though in his case he tried to change the Egyptian polytheism to one of monotheism based around himself. I think...

Thanks for the background!! Miss AOM..

A, B, SQUIGGLES

In fact we had her mummy since 1903, Howard Carter opened the tomb KV60 and found two mummies, an anonymous one with no jewelries or gold, and the mummy of a woman, Satré, Hatchespout's nurse. So they brought back Satré and ditched the other mummy on the ground.... It was the mumy of Hatchespout ^^' She was probably buried with her father in another tomb, at the beginning, but then her step-son relocated his great-father and put his mother-in-law in the tomb of a servant XD Apparently, from the analysis of the mummy, she died at 50, with a cancer of bones with multiple meta-stasis, but it's an abscess in teeths that killed her. And she was probably obese at the end ^^'

"If I could form coherent thoughts, I'd be SO ANGRY!" needs to be a t-shirt.

I love the use of the Age of Mythology music!

I love reading deep into the insanities of Egyptian myth and philosohpy, especially the Time stuff. Makes me feel like playing Elder Scrolls again...

I heard about this woman several times before and I never bothered to look up her history, so thanks for explaining it here in a time saving format.

Great Video, Blue! I absolutely love this channel, personally I think you guys are one of if not the greatest youtube channels.

OH MY RA! I'm going to see it in a few minutes, but I already love it

finally someone speaks about harshepsut

Love your Videos, a lot of effort is obviously spent on them. Keep up the good work!

Yay new video!

Please do a hades and Persephone video

MOAR VIDEOS PLZ!!!! I listen to ur videos while play wow and it is my favorite way to pass time, my love for learning history + my love for wow equals binging through ur videos quickly I enjoy ur stuff keep it up!

Hatshepsut has been probably my favorite Pharoah since I learned about her courtesy of the Civilization games! These are really cool, could you do a History Summarized on the Anasazi in the Southwestern US?

I remember watching a documentary about the attempt to uncover and identify Hatshepsut's body. I remember when they were comparing different mummies and then discovered that the tooth found in the canopic jar containing her liver matched with one of the four mummies they were considering. Since then I've loved learning about her.

Age of Mythology music! Man, that brings back memories...

I love this vid cause Haty is my favourite pharaoh of all time and I studied her for ancient history my final hs year

love the map style, papyrus and lapis. nice

Is that age of mythology I hear in the background, sold

Based on the background you gave, Hatshepsut pretty much had to be exceptional to become Pharaoh, because otherwise nobody's gonna go for the borderline blasphemy (or maybe not even borderline, I don't know my Ancient Egyptian religion well enough to know just how bad a blasphemy that would be) of the embodiment of Horus being a woman for anything less than exceptional. I suppose she could have been exceptional in a corrupt, "I promised the right people power" kind of way, but especially in light of what she's known for, it makes a certain kind of sense. Obviously we don't know exactly how it went down, but imagine this: Hatshepsut: To do the big things we need to get done, I need to be pharaoh, not regent. Priest: What?! That's not right, that doesn't make sense! BLASPHEMY!! H: Buddy, hold on, haven't I been good to you? I just want to restore and build a bunch of temples, and bring in trade to enrich all the temple coffers! P: Look, you're right, you've been good so far, so maybe we can overlook this blasphemy if you just drop it. H: No, no, I've thought it through, look, I don't have to be the literal embodiment of Horus, I can just be... co-pharaoh... and maybe a symbolic embodiment of Horus or something. Look! I'll dress like a man, totally symbolic, in total piety, I won't be fooling the gods or anything, just... a humble stand-in so I can do a job for them. P: Well... Like I said, we don't know how it went down, and it might not have been thinking like this at all, but it easily could have been that this conversation essentially played out over a period of years, giving us the Hatshepsut we know now. Maybe she sold the priests on her being co-pharaoh by arguing that her massive project of temple construction and other things for the gods themselves were being held back by her inability to perform certain symbolic administrative and religious duties. But the overarching point is that it makes sense that she was a pretty great pharaoh because that's one of the few ways that anybody would tolerate her being pharaoh.

There isn't much proof of Senenmut and Hatshepsut having relations, however there is a pretty famous bit of scandalous graffiti of the two of them in copulation in a cave near the mortuary temple Djeser-Djeseru at Deir el Bahri. So it was even rumored during her reign. We'll never know of course but gossip is always entertaining.

I love that he uses the age of mythology soundtrack

Oh my word, that’s the Egyptian music from Age of Mythology!

thank you for making this I had to write an essay on her at school and this made her story make way more sense keep the great work up!

Hatshepsut was NOT the first female pharaoh. This title belongs to Sobekneferu, a gal from 12th dynasty noone remembers, because she ruled for the short time during the downfall of the Middle Kingdom. Really, Hatshepsut was so widely erased because apart from being a woman, she was also pretty succesful as a ruler and Tuthmose really, really didn't want any competition when it came to popularity.

Love your stuff Blue

Thank you so much for doing this, I've got a project on it soon and this will help for the basics.

You left out the fact that I’m Eyptian mythology they believed that if there was no record of you in this life, then you are erased from the next (I’m ptetty sure that’s true, but don’t take it for 100%) if so, then they weren’t only trying to erase her from history, but also trying to completely wipe out her existence in both worlds.

YEEEEES. YEEEEEEEEEEES I am so happy this video was on my recommendations because I remember reading about her in my freshman year of high school and I really liked her! Thank you for this!

I’m actually doing a presentation on Hatshepsut, so this was a really convenient upload! Thx

Thank you for this history lesson! :D It's nice to hear the name of someone people tried so hard to erase; Hatshepsut was a BOSS.

She was an amazing leader! This video is awsome, i admire your work:)

This was my first ever OSP video! 2 years later and this is still one of my favorite channels

Next : History summarized: Cleopatra 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

Ahhhhhh! I’m so excited! I commented on another video and it was already here!

Great video as always. By the way, Blue, could you please make a video about the Ancient Celts?

Egyptology is one ofy favorite subjects to learn about! The history and mythology of this culture never ceases to amaze me! Completely unrelated, would it be possible to do some abridged videos on the works of H.P. Lovecraft? I would love to hear you both narrate what you've read!!

I have heard of Hatshepsut a bit before and did some research on her but that was a LONG time ago. I was so thrilled that you did a video of her Blue. \(^o^)/

The Age of Mythology music still throws me off every time.

yeees!!!! I love her story, I'm literally jumping in my seat right now

I learn more on here then i do in school.....ITS BECAUSE OF THESE VIDEOS I EARNED AN A+ ON MY FINALS!!!!

The worst curse you could ever visit on someone in ancient Egypt was to never say a person's name again and erase their image from the records. A name had power, a name told a person's story, so when you say their name they're remembered they live on in their idea of the afterlife, so to never say their name again, basically meant they would disappear like Bing Bong.

I wish this video was around last year when I had to do a project on her

I love this channel I am eary for the first time

2:30 I recognized that music immediately (at this point, at least; I realized a bit later it had been playing for the whole video) and it made me so happy.

Man I just love your vids

Age of mythology in the background. Love it

She was just hit with an ancient case of SCP-2111. It's what happens when you spend 300 years fighting the Daevas, they use some rather unorthodox weapons.

Hatshepsut was always my favorite pharaoh. I remember learning about her in elementary school and always admiring her. I loved your video, you and red should consider doing an anime style (like your characters) manga book about famous periods of history. I vote for Hatshepsut!

Age of Mythology Egypt Music FUCK YEAH!

Are you going to make a video on Lady Jane Grey? (That woman who was Queen for, like, nine days until Mary said "nah")

I love this channel

The Age of Empires music in the background is beyond nostalgic, and so relaxing 😌

You had me at the Age of Mythology music XD

Hatchepsut, fantastic! Thanks Blue 🙌🏾

YES NEW VIDEO!

The fact that you're using the soundtrack of age of mythology makes this video 1000X better XP

Is that Age of Mythology music?! :O

Right on tome for the tomb kings :P

I'm glad I found this! In history we're learning about ancient Egypt.

You guys should make a video for the whole Demeter/Persephone/Hades thing.

Thanks for the video :) I love Egyptian history and I would have studied it if it weren't for the "I need to get a job" thing. But it remains my hobby.

You guys are back! Now get Red to start warming up her drawing hand. ;P Journey to the West Part 5! Love the Overwatch reference :D

As others have pointed out, I had a gush of positive feelings hearing Chocolate Outline from Age of Mythology while you talked (though the music was maybe a little loud over your voice). I also loved the "learning his A, B, squiggles" line. Pretty great.

Hatshepsut, aka my favourite Egyptian pharaoh.

Lol. The Age of Mythology music is great.

Very informative!