Egypt Was Already 2,000 Years Old When Rome Was Born

Egypt, often called the first nation in history. For five thousand years, every summer, in the driest weeks of the year, the Nile rose... and ordinary Egyptians had no idea where the flood came from. This is the ENTIRE history of Egypt in one documentary, with 17 chapters from the green Sahara to the Grand Egyptian Museum: Narmer and Menes, the first king; the gods and the afterlife; the pyramids and the Great Sphinx; Seqenenre, Kamose, Queen Ahhotep and Ahmose, who drove out the Hyksos; daily life on the Nile; Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, the warrior pharaohs; Akhenaten and his one god, the Aten, Nefertiti and Tutankhamun; Ramesses the Great and Nefertari; Alexander the Great, the Library of Alexandria and Cleopatra; the coming of Christianity and Islam; Cairo, the Mamluks and the Ottomans; Napoleon and the Rosetta Stone; the Suez Canal; Nasser, the Aswan High Dam, and the answer to the river's oldest mystery; Sadat and the Crossing of 1973, the Sinai coming home, and the 2011 revolution. CHAPTERS 0:00 Why does the Nile flood in summer? 0:42 The Gift of the River 2:28 The First King 4:29 Gods and the Afterlife 5:51 The Pyramid Age 6:35 The Great Pyramid 6:50 The Great Sphinx 7:23 The Pyramid Builder's Diary 8:45 Fall and Comeback 10:21 Queen Ahhotep 11:34 Life on the Nile 12:49 The Warrior Pharaohs 13:21 Hatshepsut 13:55 Thutmose III 14:27 The Valley of the Kings 14:50 The Sun King and the Boy King 15:07 Akhenaten's One God 16:43 Nefertiti 17:34 Tutankhamun 17:54 Ramesses the Great 18:36 Nefertari 19:27 Everybody Wants Egypt 20:45 Alexander and the Greek Pharaohs 21:02 Alexander at Siwa 22:19 Eratosthenes Measures the Earth 22:54 Cleopatra, the Last Pharaoh 23:12 Cleopatra and Caesar 24:28 New Faiths, New Bosses 25:24 The Arab Conquest 26:20 The Birth of Cairo 26:55 The Slave-Soldier Sultans 27:58 The World Crashes In 28:22 The Rosetta Stone 29:14 The Suez Canal 30:02 Tutankhamun's Tomb 30:32 The Last Flood 31:29 Where the Flood Comes From 33:02 War, Victory and Revolution 33:13 Nasser's Funeral 33:33 The Crossing, 1973 34:24 Tahrir Square, 2011 34:41 Egypt Today Every pharaoh is shown with their dynasty number on screen, so you always know where you are in 5,000 years of history. Researched from museum and scholarly sources and fact-checked line by line (about 400 claims checked). Dates before 664 BC are approximate. Historians still argue about some of them, so we have used the mainstream chronology. Animation, voice and music were made with the help of AI tools (Higgsfield, ElevenLabs), then written, directed, edited and reviewed by a human-led team. #Egypt #History #AncientEgypt #EgyptianHistory #Pharaohs #Pyramids #Nile #Cleopatra #Tutankhamun #Ramesses #Nefertiti #Cairo #Egyptology #HistoryDocumentary #Documentary #WorldHistory #Animation