Love love love you Dr. Fletcher, and thank you so very much for this gift ! I recently discovered I am 10% Egyptian/Levantine/Persian, and this is so inspiring :)
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My goodness Nefertari’s tomb literally made me gasp. I’d probably tear up seeing it in real life. It looks as if it could have been built just yesterday! Unbelievable 🤩
If you want to read an ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS novelization of Hatshepsut's Life, her reign, and the usurpation of her position as Pharaoh by her stepson, Thutmosis IV, kgnown as "The Napoleon Of Egypt." The novel is "CHILD OF THE MORNING" by Pauline Gedge. A woman novelist, writing about a Woman Pharaoh. What could be more RIGHT? Ms. Gedge was also the author of "STARGATE". An amazing female novelist who loves all things "EGYPTIAN".
@@ОсвальдКобблпот-з8в he WAS the son of Thutmose Ii; but he was NOT born of the Great Royal Wife.. Rather, he was born of a. Commoner, which by the generally accepted norms of the Day, meant he was intended for the priesthood or miltary. He chose the military.
Dear Dr. Fletcher. You are always mentioning about the unique and appealing life style and religious believes of the ancient Egyptian people. Extraordinary medicinal knowledge, outstanding peaceful religious believes (not common in any other old religion), best treatment to women, unique architecture... We are their neighbors, once the Phoenicians and now Lebanon and we have plenty of Egyptian people working in Lebanon, and still they are peaceful and very happy funny people. One thing I yet haven't found about them is the negative side in their society during the Pharaohs rule. Can you help with that please? Thank you.
Love her or hate her, Dr Fletcher knows her stuff; she is an eminently qualified Egyptologist. The script of this documentary however is simplified and selective, perhaps overly so. She tells us that not one scene in Nefertari's tomb was wasted and that the tomb was a 'machine' designed to bring about her transfer into the afterlife. This is correct, therefor there is no need, none, to depict her husband Ramsses II. If you find yourself interested in any of these royal women, get up, turn off RU-vid and read about them.
Dr. Fletcher has great presence and is and good communicator and narrator. It's an hour clip covering thousands of years - it has to be simplified by default.
I fully agree, that's why I own two of her books and I've watched just about everything of hers here on RU-vid. I'm just giving a balanced response to the largely negative comments below. @@RedRisotto
I find her difficult to watch personally but it's just her personality. I still watch most of her documentaries as she's very knowledgeable on an interesting subject. You don't have to like the professor just the subject.
How could anyone hate her? I mean other than the usual knuckle dragging incels that just hate women for whatever dumb reason. Dr. Fletcher is one of the most intelligent women and we're lucky to have her! ❤❤
@@julieinthedesert420 I'll admit I'm a typical male. I love watching Dr Susannah Lipscomb in a body hugging dress high heels and bright red lipstick a more "entertaining" presenter. It just makes some pay attention more. I edited the word guys for some in that sentence to update to a more modern society.
😊It was (1448) when Egypt took the great span from the Euphrates to the Nile cataract but Palestine and Egypt pushed on the borders up to the kingdom of Mitanni, the successor of Thutmosis (lII) 1377😊
Really, then, why do you think the ancient Egyptians carved their statues with a pointed nose, thin lips, and a long face? Were they sculpting those statues for invaders and colonizers?
This was very interesting to hear! Do you ever worry about digging all this stuff up? Just curious? Aren't they allowed to just lay at rest. Writing on her blade a serial number like it wasn't very obvious what it was? Just seems unnecessary to write on the artifact. 😅
They can't "rest in peace", because they will never be left. If archeologists won't look for them, then robbers will. And instead to museum artifacts and mummies will go to Black market when they won't be handle in proper way. Even if you preffer people and their thinsg be left alone, you have to garee that professional excavations are lesser evil.
@@carolsalter9002 … but without archaeologists doing what they do, then you wouldn’t have anything to complain about lol - you wouldn’t have a reason to act superior because you feel you’re more respectful than them for doing a job they love doing because of their passion for history. You’d never learn about their rituals. You’d never know their beliefs, traditions, daily lives, how their economy was, their artwork and how it was done, the things they valued, what they wore, how they had progressive inventions for their limited resources compared to our modern times, etc. - if it wasn’t for this stuff being uncovered, studied, protected, and preserved for historical purposes to learn the stories of our ancestors … then future generations wouldn’t ever be able to study and learn about these historical moments in time. Moments that are very important and show what humans are truly capable of … We wouldn’t know any of this if no one had any curiosity because there was an arbitrary line where they could not cross due to respectfulness (which is subjective from culture to culture or even person to person - what one deems as being a disrespectful act may be considered respectful for another). I’d much rather see these sites be uncovered and preserved so they can continue to remain intact for several more centuries. Yes, a lot of these places house the remains of lives long gone, but they often do not know this until they’re already uncovering things. That’s just how archaeology is. I, for one, could only hope that several thousand years into the future that some team of beings uncover my grave and stick my body up on display somewhere for whatever life forms to gawk at, study, preserve, and create this big story about how I lived. If the afterlife is real, I will have left my body long before I’d ever be uncovered - fairly sure my future spirit wouldn’t give a damn what happens to my pile of bones, either.
Because time was limited and she chose the ones SHE considered most interesting. So one Queen Mother (Hetepheres), two female Pharaohs (Hatshepsut & Arsinoe II) and one queen consort (Nefertari).
@@cindyhorlacher764 only in the Ptolemaic era after Alexander the great died. Before that when ancient Egypt was the strongest the kings and queens were strictly Egyptian. Cleopatra the 7th was Macedonian. Hetshipsout was Egyptian
i don't think you people look at ancient Egypt realistically... the ancient Egyptian people did not think like you or me.... i think those people walked around in a state of meditation... and i think they played games in that state of meditation...
Spiritually speaking (gender aside), matriarchal culture can begin with an understanding of the cyclical nature of reality (God). Represented by the snake in many creation myths, the living cycle has a trinity of a beginning (head), a middle and end (tail). As above so below, the sexes were created in the image of God's cyclical nature where Mother is the head and opening to all beginnings and Father holds the tail to all endings (through which the sowing of seeds allow for the next great matriarchal rebirth).The joining of the two (symbolized by the Ouroborus or the marriage ring) is the sacred union needed in assuring the creation and continuation of new life cycles. To speak of the present day God as "Our Father" is simply an admission to our collective positioning within the bigger cycle. As all mothers have direct experience with the creator quality of birthing, so is the direct experience of rebirthing the divinity within (baptism) belong to that which is spiritually matriarchal. (John 3, verse 3-8). Sekhmet statues (ancient Egyptian) carry most of their weight in symbolic memory of what was a mother culture dedicated to the direct experience of baptism. As the leg shaped hairlocks extend from maternal breasts to the womb of rebirth, the lioness's head proportions are such that they highlight the bust of a second animal figure. The Lioness's ears as eyes and eyes as nose (nostrils) brings to life the figure of a reptile. 'Neath the halo headress of the solar egg, the lioness's egg fertilization process being internal (Set) and the reptile's egg fertilization process being external (Setting), such being key components to the safety of entering the trans-egoic or "born again" state. The life threatening fear associated with the predatory nature of a lion and/or crocodile encounter are reflective of the intense ego death experiences associated with the transpersonal awakening process. In spiritually matriarchal times, illumination could be seen as wearing the false beard (ancient Egyptian funerary ego death mask) as the high state of cyclical self knowing; high cyclical awareness of both our upper matriarchal half and our lower (later) patriarchal half (compared with a mini lower body replica, an "as above so below" tail end beard extension); in full recognition of her civilizational Underworld; her inevitable cyclical destiny. The male pharaoh wears his beard tapered in reverse, indicating a pointing upwards towards the patriarchal head, divine representative of God's tail end cycle. Mary's anointing and wiping of Jesus's feet with her hair can then be seen as "Head to tail" (toe) imagery as she descends her matriarchal head to his patriarchal feet, thus reenacting the high understanding of the divine cyclical process. (John 12, verse 3) To carry the Ankh (now the female symbol ♀️) was perhaps to symbolically carry that upper and lower understanding. As the upper matriarchal womb symbolised the fertile birthing of civilization, below, the now Christian cross is carried to place emphasis on the lower (later) "End Times" Father principle of the great cycle. Ganesha, the elephant headed Hindu diety, displays a cyclical head to trunk symbolism and points to the Mother head of his matriarchal elephant society. Ganesha (like the elephant) wears God's cyclical nature on his face. A whole temple was dedicated to the ancient Egyptian goddess Hathor, who is the matriarchal "Uterus" personified. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-J0m0zJSEFK0.html "See all women as mothers, serve them as your mother. when you see the entire world as the mother, the ego falls away. See everything as Mother and you will know God." - Neem Karoli Baba "My son, keep thy father's commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother" - Proverbs 6 : 20
Good vid about great queens .. But Don't use actual precious artifact chair from thousands of years to live your dream and make actual Egyptian people lift u.. It gives bad colonizer vibes
There were many interesting Black civilizations, but Egypt was not one. We have statues and wall paintings that show the Egyptians had middle eastern features.
@@sweethistorteawell Egypt was conquered by Africans and vice versa, so there were black Egyptians (Nubia for example.) wall paintings also depict Egyptians with dark skin and black African features.
@sweethistortea Thank you for Displaying your True Ignorance because before the Egyptian & French Government paired to Create the Suez Canal there wasn't a Middle East. Which the Formulating of the Suez Canal began 1859 & was Completed in 1869. If what your were Implying were True then there'd be a Middle North, Middle South, & or a Middle West Genuis. Let's not even Begin to Look into All of the Distorted Lips & Noses of the Original Ancient Egyptian (Khemetic) Artifacts or those from Ancient Sudan (Nubia or Kush) where the Civilization in Question began not to Mention has Over 200 Pyramid. In Layman's Terms those Ancient Africans had Very Strong Black African Features such as Thick Lips & Wide Noses. Architecture Defects with the Noses & Lips were Intentional Complimented Highly by the Spinx itself because Napoleon gave it a 21 Cannon Salute. So you Speaking from your Limited Research or Lack of Knowledge Only Compliments your Intellect. lol
Great documentary, but "untold"? The stories of Egypt's female rulers throughout Egyptian history, have been told, on average, more than the stories of the average man pharaoh
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We all know it was.. I'm an Egyptian architect and I've seen the great pyramids. They are big tombs my friend. Egyptians cared about the afterlife more than life
@@sarashaker6147 I'm taking about the Great Pyramid of GIZA and its 2 sister Pyramids. Others found throughout the Egyptian dessert may be classified as tombs. Some aren't really Pyramids but are in fact Masaba's. If you really think that the Giza Pyramids were tombs, you've obviously been "brainwashed" by the academics in your field. It's truly sad that this brainwashing continues. ALL of the ANCIENTS and the ANCIENT KNOWLEDGE WEEPS over this INJUSTICE.
I bet you get hung up on words a lot... Through history, women have never been recorded to rule/influence empires as in Egypt. You will learn to live once you start taking a good dump in the morning and rub one out in the sink before bedtime. It's one hour covering thousands of years - it's simplified. It was never meant to bruise your frail mind.... It's about the women of Egypt (not the ones that hurt your feelings.)
the Ptolemaic kingdom established a system of co-regency most often between brother and sister and it fell because of men after Ptolemy III, the only competent sovereigns were women men often cruel not knowing how to maintain their power and hated by the Alexandrians borrow sums and ask for military aid from the Romans, transforming the kingdom from a power to a client state of Rome. whose annexation has been discussed for a long time by the Romans who will seize parts of the kingdom piece by piece: Cyrenaica in 96BC and Cyprus in 58 BC and who will be returned to the kingdom for a time after the diplomatic prowess of the last sovereigns, a woman in 34 BC
*i don't think you people understand ancient Egypt...* pharoah... was a house... NOT a man.... the man... was a reflection of an epoch... the house... is a reflection of an epoch.... man as the microcosm of the universe... all the functions of creation lie within man... the function of the lion... the function of the jackle... the function of the falcon... the function of the monkey... the four great functions of the universe... math... division... addition... multiplications... and... subtractions... accretion is the name of the game... gobekli tepe... what dat?.... not in my lifetime... *if you people do not think man understood the tools he worked with...* than you do not understand evolution.... the population of the earth... was inevitable... ouroboros is the beginning meeting the ending.... where is the beginning if not in division?... *agriculture is civilization...* culture is time.... and the soil... is our reality... what we put inside of ourselves... food... the rhizosphere and rhizophagy.... plants... are carnivores.... they eat bacteria for a living... plants are the only living creatures with roots that go deep into the soil... and limbs that reach the heavens.... and with a fixed horizon... they put the best microorganisms into their seed for the future.... the dung beetle... is life... the ability to lay eggs and fly off....
@@katmar7870 the origin of our species was in a place known as Anatolia... gobekli tepe is your magic carpet ride into yesterday... the people of the neolithic... 14,000 years ago... understood... cellular division... and.... evolution.... because... those things are part of us.... a man holding his penis equates to the ancient Egyptian narrative of creation.... ejaculation... because... all living breathing sentient beings project themselves into the future with what thy leave behind themselves... seed... their culture.... a sarcophagus... is layering... and endosperm... has layers... because... there is only IN and OUT in all of creation... ancient Anatolia... was Noah's Arc... the site off the sights of the domestication of the sheep... the domestications of the goat... the domestications of the cow... and... the domestications of the wheat... ancient Anatolia is the site of man's evolution in thinking... the circle and the square... because... the population of the earth... was inevitable...
