How Ancient Egypt Was Re-Discovered | The Story Of Egyptology | Odyssey 

I'm Egyptian. I thank God that the Brits and French decided to ship those treasures away from Egypt. Egypt at the time -- and you could argue, still today -- dominated by an anti- enlightenment culture, namely Islam. People in my own country of birth were then -and to some extent, even today- clueless as to the importance of this history, when they are not actively trying to destroy this heritage in the name of some religious lunacy. So, stop being apologetic about this.

I'm continually fascinated by the depth of knowledge and the attention to detail in these Ancient Egypt videos. They truly bring the mysteries of the Nile to life!

Fall of civilisations channel is exceptional on Egypt, 4 hours.

Imagine a vase you made during a pottery class becomes buried & uncovered thousands of years later, shipped to a country thousands of miles away, & put into a museum people pay to see almost every day & marvel at.

Amazing book, the drawings are stunning, and to think there were 11 volumes of illustrations 😳

Fantastic documentary Dr Chris, extremely informative and very well presented, thank you!! ❤

History professor for 40 years. Now, at 79 yo going on Viking Cruise on the Nile. I have read several books and watched many Dr. Chris Naunton lessons. I am ready for Viking Hathor in Sept. 2024.

Utterly brilliant, combining so many facets of the metahistory of the discipline with a genuine appreciation of the personalities involved.

Really exceptional documentary; very detailed and well put together.👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

Napoleon’s quest to Egypt was the beginning of all of it!

is this part of a series? This was especially well done.

I would love to thumb through that book ..

Well done documentary, but not once was an Egyptian person mentioned - not even the foreman of Carter's work crew, who supposedly is the one who found the stone step of Tutankhamen's tomb. For a modern piece of historical writing, that was a strange omission to me. Belzoni didn't "move the colossus" by his own strongman self! And many modern Egyptologists are Egyptians.

“Hardly anyone has been in Egypt” Well, that is except anyone who lived there, people trading, etc. Ok, I’m pedantic.

He makes grave robbing sound so wonderful

Sands...had a good name for what he did!

I want a film about Schliemann's life, the excavations, etc.

Brilliant video

It's crazy, but if a country today just went and took a bunch of stuff from another country like they did back then....I think it wouldn't happen on such a large scale before it would be stopped...I hope...

Very well done documentary ❤

this is wonderful

The great favor done archeology and posterity by the French with their magnificent volumes, seems to myself as having been essentially selfless and serving of Necessity. As only one smaller example: the then somewhat surviving Theater at Antinopolis, built by command of Emperor Hadrian for his new city dedicated to the drowned Antinuous-Osiris, was very well documented. Today, there, the original is totally gone, it having been picked apart by builders using it for their material! But for the French of then and their exquisite work, we'd now know nothing of it. Hats-off to them, I say!

Don't get me wrong, this is fascinating. i know it's probably an unpopular opinion but I believe all the mummies should be repatriated. I know we have at least one here in the Dunedin Museum. As a Māori, it has been a generations long struggle to get treasures that were looted back, especially the "Tattooed Heads" and other pieces made from human anatomy but also carvings, stone tools and even entire houses. It was quite the fad for english wealth to have a carved Māori House on their estates, for parties and wotnot. I feel the same sense of outrage about the plundering of Egypt. Please don't maul me for this opinion but I'd like to hear yours....

Can't helping not all Pyramids were tombs if their uniqueness can be believed though some were 'incorporated' by others in a different age.

"Two Ton Common" get it right! lol

I'm sure the Egyptians knew ancient Egypt was there all along....no "rediscovery" needed for them...

France & the UK sound like they used to be like Russia & the US during the Cold War.

So, Champollion beat out the Brit in the translation game but, did not Howard Carter more than make up for it? I'd say. WHY no "Sir" Howard Carter??? Might have there been special honors and recognition granted him by H.E.M. King Fuad? Well at that time political factors were intervening, which might well have gotten in the way in both cases. (Lecau!) How about a posthumous granting of knighthood to Carter by the present H.M. King Charles? So many questions; so few answers.

Thives loting culture of others

Egyptians had to have been Saharians heirs? What lies to the west the direction Egypt dedicated to death and a symbolic setting sun. What lies still undiscovered buried deep in ancient valleys beneath the sand and sand dunes ?

Up to its neck to driftsans then

Weren’t the Egyptians horrified about this looting? Did they try to stop it?

The dead should never be disturbed.. remember the curse of King tut?...gosh its scary

4:15 What? Are we seriously going to conflate King Tutankhamun with the Pyramids? One minute in and I want to say Good Bye,...yet I am hungry so I will continue to watch... I hope there are no more confabulations dressed up as history for the lay viewer Edit: I apologize just after five minutes. Disculpe, Disculpe, Maximus Disculpe

Rediscover is where it's wrong 😂

And the only reason it took the English so long was because the Chrsitian religion suppressed history and ancient knowledge for almost 1,000 years - wild. The Christians and governments even spread myths of Giants when people asked about roman structures in England Napoleon had access to this information and he didnt care what the politcal and religious powers told him - he was against the supression

Great video but England and the other countries should have to return these stolen artifacts that belong to Egypt.

Colonialism is alive and well.

They're our best mates, but the Brits would of took back the pyramids if could 😂

Evolution is a thing.

What a big troll. With a very big ego

Ugh! The British Museum is a blight on modern civilized society! It should have been emptied out, everything boxed up, organized and shipped promptly back to its original owners just as systematically as when it was stolen. (If not more so.) I always go right to the obligatory example of Stonehenge, well aware of how cliché, because it's as true as anything. The U.K. wouldn't tolerate for a second some foreign people coming in, condoning off, and then hauling away the ancient megalithic structure back to their country, whether they invoked; "conservation," or tried using posterity as a justification or not. The fact is; the historical artifacts kept locked up inside the British Museum, (let alone all of the other Museums and Universities around the Western World, particularly in the United States, Canada, France, Australia, etc.,) no more belong uprooted from their points of origin than Stonehenge, if it were to be dug up and carted away somewhere else. And that should be obvious, especially to such a supposed; "educated," civilization. Since the proliferation of the internet, especially, and the ability for just about every human being to have access to any information available therein, with modern computer and cell phone technology, there hasn't been any justification whatsoever for those significant cultural artifacts to NOT be sent back to their rightful owners. Beginning with the British Museum. Then, Berlin the Louvre and all the way down to the most relatively obscure, like Eugene Oregon, Carson City Nevada, and of course Philadelphia, New York and Washington DC. (And every one in between. Correcting the mistakes of the past, colonialism in particular, (and there are some atrocities that can never be fully made up for,) was never going to be easy, but that one effort would be a start. If healing the world's deep divides is ever to stand a chance. (I'm just sayin' ✌️) #ConstructiveCriticism #DontShootTheMessenger

How do you become an egyptologist? Like where do you send your CV, who pays your wages?

Ancient Egyptians were White.

It's sad to see all the looted treasure still sitting in British museums as a national point of pride. It belongs to Egypt you greedy bastards, give it back already.

The title should be more fitting like : history of looting and colonization in Egypt... The only good thing this petty thieves did was at least document what they stole. One day all those museums will be almost empty, I'm hoping to be alive to see it.

Why the pronunciation? How come we can’t just keep traditional pronunciation- it sounds so pretentious and weird

Recovered ?? You meen stolen 😮😔

Of course the items should be returned to their home countries. Taking items to western countries was part of colonialism. No matter if the items were ‘gifted’ or ‘sold’, because of the power imbalance the trades can’t be considered fair, equal nor freely consented to. It’s up to the home countries to decided how and if they want to preserve their cultural items. To say another country knows better than them what their history is worth, is simply patronising and part of the infantalising colonialist mindset. Finally, I have seen plenty of mummies in Britain that are visibly rotting away because the damp climate is not suitable to preserving them 🤡

British pronunciation CAN'T be that bad! He's got to be making it up.

The phrase _"scientific archaeology"_ is a joke. Science/Archaeology is no different than Magic/Logic.

Easy just go to Libya and turn right.