The ENTIRE History of Ancient Egypt Explained (3100 BC – 30 BC)

Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid. In between, a woman made herself king and had her face chiselled off the walls, a pharaoh abolished the gods, and tomb builders staged the first strike in history. This is the entire history of ancient Egypt, from about 3100 BC to 30 BC: the Nile and the Black Land, Narmer and the two crowns, the pyramids and the men who really built them, the Diary of Merer, famine and the Hyksos, Hatshepsut, Akhenaten and his one god, Tutankhamun and Howard Carter, Ramesses II and the Battle of Kadesh, the Bronze Age collapse and the Sea Peoples, the strike at Deir el-Medina, the harem conspiracy, the black pharaohs of Kush, Persia, Alexander, the Ptolemies, Cleopatra and the Rosetta Stone. And one thing that kept it all alive for three thousand years: the river came back every summer. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Closer to the Moon landing than to the pyramids 0:37 The Nile, the Black Land and Narmer 2:15 The pyramids and who really built them 4:23 Famine, collapse and the Hyksos 5:57 Hatshepsut, the woman who became king 7:52 Akhenaten and Tutankhamun 10:23 Ramesses II and the Battle of Kadesh 11:45 Bronze Age collapse and the first strike 13:35 Kush, Persia, Alexander and the Ptolemies 15:13 Cleopatra, the Rosetta Stone and the river 📚 SOURCES Herodotus, Histories II–III. Arrian, Anabasis III. Plutarch, Lives of Antony and Caesar. The Turin Strike Papyrus. The Judicial Papyrus of Turin. H. Carter & A. Mace, The Tomb of Tut.ankh.Amen (1923). I. Shaw (ed.), The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt (2000). M. Lehner, The Complete Pyramids (1997). M. Lehner & Z. Hawass, Giza and the Pyramids (2017). P. Tallet, Les papyrus de la mer Rouge I (2017). J. Tyldesley, Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh (1996). P. Dorman, The Monuments of Senenmut (1988). B. Kemp, The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti (2012). K. Kitchen, Pharaoh Triumphant (1982). L. Török, The Kingdom of Kush (1997). Hawass et al., "Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun's Family", JAMA (2010). Hawass et al., "Revisiting the harem conspiracy and death of Ramesses III", BMJ (2012). M. Nelson, "The mummy's curse", BMJ (2002). L. & R. Adkins, The Keys of Egypt (2000). R. Collins, The Nile (2002). Map borders: historical-basemaps by A. Ourednik (GPL-3.0), github.com/aourednik/historical-basemaps. Rivers and coastlines: Natural Earth (public domain). Font: Patrick Hand (SIL Open Font License). 🏛️ What came next: The ENTIRE History of the Roman Empire Explained: [   • The ENTIRE History of the Roman Empire Exp...  ] 🔔 Subscribe and tell us which civilisation we should cover next. #AncientEgypt #EgyptianHistory #History