The ENTIRE History of Ancient Egypt in 22 Minutes

The entire history of Ancient Egypt in 22 minutes — 3,000 years of pharaohs, pyramids and gods, from King Narmer uniting the Two Lands around 3100 BC to Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt, in 30 BC. Cleopatra lived closer in time to the iPhone than to the people who built the Great Pyramid. This Ancient Egypt documentary tells the whole story of Egyptian history step by step: how a thin strip of farmland along the Nile became one of the longest-lasting civilizations ever, how it collapsed again and again, and how it kept coming back. In this video: • Kemet, the Black Land, and why the Nile made Egypt possible • Narmer, the double crown and the first pharaohs • Imhotep, the Step Pyramid, Sneferu's Bent Pyramid and the Great Pyramid of Giza • Who really built the pyramids: the workers' town, the "Friends of Khufu" and the Diary of Merer • The great drought and the first collapse of Egypt • The Hyksos invasion and the pharaoh killed on the battlefield • Hatshepsut, the woman who ruled as king • Thutmose III, the "Napoleon of Egypt" • Akhenaten, Nefertiti and the sun god Aten • Tutankhamun, Howard Carter and the "curse of the pharaohs" • Ramesses the Great, the Battle of Kadesh and the oldest peace treaty (and the new fragment found in 2026) • The first strike in history and the murder of Ramesses III • Nubian, Persian and Greek pharaohs • Alexander the Great, the Ptolemies and Alexandria • Cleopatra, Julius Caesar and Mark Antony • The Rosetta Stone and how Champollion made Egypt speak again Chapters: 0:00 Intro: Cleopatra and the iPhone 1:26 The Gift of the Nile 3:12 The Pyramid Age: Who Really Built the Pyramids 5:51 The First Collapse 6:31 The Hyksos Invasion 7:42 The Empire: Hatshepsut & Thutmose III 9:36 The Heretic King & Tutankhamun 12:13 Ramesses the Great & the Oldest Peace Treaty 14:31 The Long Decline: Strikes, Murder & Foreign Kings 16:47 Alexander, the Ptolemies & Cleopatra 20:06 The Rosetta Stone: How Egypt Spoke Again Which pharaoh would you want to live under: Hatshepsut, Ramesses or Cleopatra? Tell us in the comments. ▶ Watch next — The ENTIRE History of the Aztec Empire:    • The ENTIRE History of the Aztec Empire in ...   🔔 Subscribe for history explained, the entire history of a new empire every time:    / @nutshel_history   Sources: Toby Wilkinson, "The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt"; Ian Shaw (ed.), "The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt"; Pierre Tallet, "The Red Sea Scrolls" (Diary of Merer); Herodotus, Histories, Book II; Plutarch, Lives of Caesar and Antony; Museo Egizio (Turin Strike Papyrus); BMJ 2012 (Ramesses III CT study); Frontiers in Medicine 2021 (Seqenenre Taa II); Hattusa excavations, Treaty of Kadesh fragment (September 2026). #AncientEgypt #Egypt #History