Here in 2024...whilst watching the horrors taking place in Gaza😢 feeling completely helpless..

Great discussion. I wonder if there has been any progress with that Nubian exhibit at the Boston museum of Fine Arts. Also the issue with Modern Egyptian identity is if many of them, especially the ones who control access to Ancient Egyptian material and sites, don’t identify as African, they will likely impede research linking Ancient Egypt with the rest of Africa especially the “ Black”parts i.e. Nubia.

39:11 This is a very popular relief of New Kingdom soldiers of Kemet, from the mortuary temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari, 15th century BCE 5 centuries before the Kingdom of Kush came into being. But for whatever reason, academia like to conflate this image of Kemets soldiers with Kushite soldiers??

This is an excellent discussion. I’d like to see more work like this from the Collective. Great work all 👏🏿👏🏿

Love seeing women excelling in academia! Go Jessie!

They always thought that fertility only lie on the women. They never considered bad sperm count in men.

Or does nehesi mean southerner?

Ok if Nubia isn’t the term that should be used for them shout we call them nḥsjw doesn’t that mean southerner?

Thank you for this wonderful interview. And i am happy The Final Passage is still available!

we need to stop using the words middle east because it's false.

Is there any evidence of cultural and genetic continuity found in modern day Africans that can be traced back to the Kerman culture of Sudan?

Thank you for such a fascinating presentation 👏🏽

Ummmm…. How come everyone on the UC Berkeley archaeology team is nerdy and attractive at the same time? 🤔

Fascinating. Thanks.

I'm very excited for this series. I really felt it when Dr. Jennie Ebeling expressed getting older and more aggravated by sexism. Hello! Hand raised. I am doing research on EXAMINING WOMEN AS DEPICTED IN THE REFORMED BIBLE (working title) and I am still in Genesis. I will be researching and writing through this entire series. I am so happy to have a partnership in my journey too. Thank you for this.

I wish you would have discussed the scale of destruction done to all non stone structures, including palaces conjoining the hills on the platform in Persepolis. You can see in those old photos that the "Treasury" and other places had most of their extensive walls, recesses, some plasters and frescoes--even fallen ceilings, intact. The American team (Schmidt, I think) ordered them all destroyed and leveled to the ground, leaving only the outline of the foundations that we see today. Your own pictures show those walls and buildings when excavated and before their wholesale removal.

This is PRICELESS. .Thank You Elizbeth Minor..& The Archaeological Research Facticity UC Berkeley...!!

Thank you for this insightful presentation 👏🏽

The area known as Ta-Sety, by the Ancient Egyptians was called “land of the bow” by historians without any real justification other than “they were great archers” and “the glyph in the name Ta-Sety “look like a bow”, according to historians…most of the ancient world at this time used arrows and the glyphs that represent the nine bows look nothing like the glyph in the name Ta-Sety, so I question the use of the name “land of the bows”. Also there is an 18th dynasty relief of a bound western Asian captive with glyphs of his name and one of the glyphs is 100% an arrow just like the arrows that represent the nine bows, so are we to call him a name with the word “bow” in it??

The video of the ARF Workshop on accessing NOAA Paleoclimate databases mentioned at the end of this talk is available here kzbin.info/www/bejne/op6zoHWKastnmKs

This was the most useful tutorial about QGIS grid tool I've ever seen. Thank you!

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Thanks for the presentation Dr Hawari. But you didn't mention Gaza in the slightest, as if it doesn't exist or isn't part of Palestine

Archaeologists in the Levant: please take a stand against Israeli racism and the destruction of Palestinian historical sites.

Thank you for this very informative and interesting series! My uncle was Dimitri's son.

Sally-Ann Ashton seems to have disappeared from public life. 🤔

So pretty! And smart!!!

Great tutorial, I have one issue, I keep getting a null return when I create the new columns for the grid - I have saved the rotation edits and have the grid selected still, not sure why this is happening.

40:15 is hilarious

Thanks Nico. It is a clear and great tutorial. I hope you continue. It would be a super class bringing the data taken from the excavation to the QGis grid.

Drifty 1 makes an accurate point. There is no such thing as “ancient Egypt “. The very act of using the term “ancient Egypt”, instead of “ancient Kemet”, perpetuates the false image of Kemet as not part of Africa. Egyptology should not be confused & is not interchangeable with “Kemetology”.

Part of the problem is terminology. When people use the word "Egypt" it often conjures the idea of a continuous history and culture going back 6,000 years, which is not correct. Keep in mind you cant talk of "France" going back over even 2,000 years ago. And in the Nile Valley the word "Egypt" didn't even exist prior to the Greek invasion as it is a Greek term. Kemet was the original name of the country prior to that and that is a major cultural and social distinction. It is hard to apply a continuous historical cultural and social paradigm and program to any population anywhere going back 5,000 years. Modern Egypt is the culmination of events occurring over the last 3,000 years which have set it on its current course and trajectory. There is a vastly different cultural orientation between the modern state and the various states that preceded it, even since the Arab invasion. And similar things can be said about most ancient societies such as India or China. Also, there was never a political, social or cultural entity in the ancient Nile called "Nubia". Meaning there was no nation state or ethno-state called "Nubia" in ancient times. And this is mainly because the area of the Nile Valley to the south was made up of mostly semi-nomadic groups and pastoral groups and relatively small settlements. There was no process of complex state formation among these groups similarly to what we see in Kemet proper. And in a larger context this has to be seen as a function of the rarity of large complex cultures at this point in human history. A big part of the reason for the lack of these larger settled groups is the fact that the environment in that part of Africa has constantly been changing and therefore one of the adaptive strategies was a semi-nomadic/nomadic lifestyle. So just from that perspective a place called "Nubia" could not exist as opposed to a loose collection of various smaller cultural centers along the Nile with seasonal settlement patterns which is part of a far more ancient pattern of human activity in Africa. However, that said, the nation state of Kemet evolved out of that historical process of adaptive survival strategies along the Nile towards more complex settled societies, but it wasn't a widespread one. And within the larger cosmology of Kemet itself, one of the main distinctions between Kemet was the fact it was a formalized large scale nation state surrounded by hordes of various semi-nomadic groups who were seen as barbarians or a threat to the long term stability and prosperity. But that is not a "racial" distinction no less than the Romans usage of "barbarian" for other European groups outside of Rome or national boundaries in general. Not only that, depending on the time period, the term "Nubia" was synonymous with "black Africa", similar to the way the term "Ethiopia" was used, because the word "Africa" itself is a relatively modern term. And this is very important when reading ancient manuscripts in different languages and mapping that to geographical regions and cultures. So when one is discussing ancient Nile Valley cultures, it is better to use terms to try and distinguish the ancient social, cultural and political context versus the modern one. Of course the other issue is between making things understandable for the average joe versus specialists, PHD candidates, scholars in academia and researchers in the field.

many modern Egyptians look Arab. how did Mr. Tyson skip over the Arab slave trade?

Great series, I hope you guys do other river valleys in Africa also. Sub Saharan always bugs, this is why I used terms like tropical North Africa, littoral North Africa, tropical West Africa, tropical East Africa. and far south Southern Africa. Will share this.

Kerma is older that kemit ir chem. David steel of the Chicago oriental Institute found an incent burner that proves ta-seti is older than egypt.

What I find interesting is the fact that there are no drawings of Saber tooth's, Wooly Mammoths or Giant Sloths.. You do see a drawing of a species of an elephant but its not a mammoth. Either the dating is wrong and the drawings are much younger or the age for those species that I just mentioned are much older than what is accepted.. I think the date is much younger based on the kind of animals that were drawn which most still exist still to the present up to now despite the charcoal carbon dating..

Let’s convince UNESCO. Jordan has another monument. It will be as important as Petra or even more. There are interesting ruins and reliefs on the Black Desert, dated 8,500 years old. They can only be seen from planes, drones, satellites and helicopters. Archaeologists don't exactly know nowadays what they represent. These ruins really represent embryos of several species in different stages of development and will be able to shed light on the origin of the human being and our planet. When it will be officially confirmed by biologists, this discovery will be a delight for the eyes, shed light to the origin of humanity. Activate the subtitles in English: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJrOh5mKl71lg9E It contains the documentation with the Jordanian authorities about this scientific and archaeological discovery.

Three man chariots? Driver shield bearer and archer? That's the ancient worlds equivalent of a tank! 😁

Wow this is very good. Thank you!

Yesss! Great discussion.

I and my family are watching this entire Berkeley series while on yet another Covid lockdown in our apartment in Rome. This is the thing about the internet that is truly amazing. If you're curious you can find information about fascinating historical periods in our human history. As an African descendant myself, since childhood I have always had an acute fascination with Kush, Egypt and the history of West Africa where my ancestors originate. Then my father did his DNA and found he is a descendant of Ramsees III. This series puts real meat on the bones of this incredible civilzation and the people who created it. Grazie mille🇮🇹♥️

The oldest mummy found mummified in the SAME way that Egyptian kings were mummified, was found in the Libyan desert. It was a 5600 year old five year old black child. The culture came into the Nile Valley from various pastoral people who had an intact culture. The oldest representation of Hathor was found on a rock wall in the desert in Chad. Egypt and Nubia were a cluster Saharan culture made up by various groups fleeing climate change during the drying of the Saharan.

Thank you for this, a very sound clarification of a very misrepresented history. The history of the world has been almost criminally distorted in order to maintain the lie of wt supemacy. So much work has to be done to undo this travesty.

Meg! Nico! Fantastic presentation. I wish I'd have known about it when you did it: I certainly would have tuned in. Thank you for posting it up on youtube. Can't wait to be down Berkeley-way again. Dave

What a time to be alive! I've watched so many videos now I gotta read the books .

“Bite or sting” - interesting - reminds me that Kerma had scorpion amulets.

Let’s convince UNESCO. Jordan has another monument. It will be as important as Petra or even more. There are interesting ruins and reliefs on the Black Desert, dated 8,500 years old. They can only be seen from planes, drones, satellites and helicopters. Archaeologists don't exactly know nowadays what they represent. These ruins really represent embryos of several species in different stages of development and will be able to shed light on the origin of the human being and our planet. When it will be officially confirmed by biologists, this discovery will be a delight for the eyes, shed light to the origin of humanity. Activate the subtitles in English: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJrOh5mKl71lg9E It contains the documentation with the Jordanian authorities about this scientific and archaeological discovery.

Great lecture

Seems that many archeologists look too close on the pictures on the walls and focus on the dating of them. If so, of course it’s obvious that the art is very early, and that it’s made during aurignacian time. But perhaps it necessary also to ask what they were doing in the caves, and why they were painting there. The findings of footprints from young people, sexual symbols and bones from cave bears reminds of the findings in the Bruniquel cave from 176 000 years ago. Neanderhals also got together deep in a cave with rings built from stalagmites, that looks like sexual symbols, and there are findings of burnt cave bear bones. Up to now people around the world have symbolic initiation rites where children goes from childhood to adult life, and this seems to back to neanderthal time. Also the symbolic value of the most dangerous animal, the cave bear, seems to back almost 200 000 years, which is a very interesting trait.

Excellent explanation