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Empire Builders - Episode 1: Ancient Egypt - Three Thousand Years of History | History Documentary
Rising to prominence in North Africa along the fertile valley of the river Nile, ancient Egypt prospered and grew to become one of the world’s earliest and greatest civilisations.
In this episode of Empire Builders we travel through time to appreciate 3000 years of ancient Egyptian history through the amazing stories of ten of its most famous and spectacular buildings. It’s a journey of discovery that will take us to ancient Egypt’s greatest pyramids and obelisks, and its most magnificent temples and tombs.
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[@srivathsananand9884]

The fact that we can see the body of a king depicted in stone carvings thousands of years ago gives me goosebumps 😮😮😮

[@jeanlove8510]

ancient Egypt is my favourite part of history. Spectacular and captivating, i never get bored of watchin documentaries about Egypt and its mind blowing pyramids

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

Every time I see a shot of the pyramids behind Cairo, blows me away. Friggin mind blowing every time.

[@minaly424]

This has to be the most informative and best Egypt documentary, please make more.

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

More 'Empire Builders' episodes are coming soon. Starting this friday (July 23rd) about the Roman Empire.

[@user-xt3cc1vz6o]

Egypt's history is absolutely fascinating.

[@user-yp5ir6wp5q]

trueee

[@mohamedhommos7748]

For my heart of North Africa Egypt ❤❤❤❤

[@daveoleary8173]

I'm from Dublin Ireland, and I know more about Egypt than my own country. I even got King TuT death ring , they made me a copy of it then I gave it to my jeweller which he made it solid gold and white gold .

[@prnxcarter8800]

Fascinating stuff man

[@JUNXO]

@@prnxcarter8800 😐😐😐

[@jfinn3575]

Well we have Newgrange in Ireland, which is older than The Pyramids, and has a party trick to boot!

[@Whoopi-Depardieu]

@@jfinn3575 it has a party trick??

[@jfinn3575]

@@Whoopi-Depardieu Yep every year around the Solstice (it used to be bang on the longest day, but astrological wobble) the sun hits it in such a way that the entire inner sanctum lights up. They only allow a limited number of people in so tickets to see it are usually sold out months or years in advance and have to be distributed by lottery!

[@missymiss2308]

I have watched a lot of documentaries on ancient Egypt but this is the first one that helped me see things clearly… Thank you! Especially for matching the correct image to the current moment of discussion. Helped a great deal. No mix up in this head now 😅

[@dazuk1969]

I love Egyptian history so i really enjoyed that...nice one whoever you are.

[@eetuandersson4229]

Didn't know that some of the pyramids in Egypt are up to 5000 years old. And that obelisks in Rome are actually from there, too. Ancient Egypt just doesn't cease blowing me away. Thx for another free documentation!

[@pacitademyer8263]

😮😂

[@ronnymatthews4133]

King Tut's Tomb/Pyramid is so BIG it now has a DRIVETHROUGH tunnel¡😊!! The sign at the entrance:;Toot And Come In!!😀😂

[@isabellastta]

Maybe they can find the lost treasures in London Museum lol

[@star-kestv3205]

Where's London???

[@LaurinhaPimenta]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@warrenboyce2987]

Find them in the Vatican and Rome. They raided egypt after the death of Queen Cleopatra!

[@terrymolloy2246]

If they weren't there.....they'd be Gone!!

[@Magdal9347]

Unfortunately they are all over the world

[@judithkilla6329]

One of the best presented documentaries I've watched. Great job. More pls.

[@Ss-wi2oc]

My dream to go visit Egypts museums, it’s history is just amazing

[@darrenryan1161]

Surely you wudnt have to traverse that far to get somewhat amazing handle on the history that's been created on higher-up continent so to speak

[@magicmoonart]

Oh wow I've always had an affinity with Egypt and it's cool stuff but this stuff is all so impressive especially the pharaohs being so powerful and dominent and their beautiful buildings depicting this

[@veeshryane6345]

Fascinating,loved this😍great music aswell👍

[@julijamohl4781]

Unexpectedly good documentary! Well done

[@englishyouwithcida2338]

Simply fascinating!!!

[@chris.asi_romeo]

Excellent documentary 👏👏👏👏

[@mountainride9658]

Great documentary 👏

[@yardman8842]

This building is magnificent and other worldly

[@EmilyCheetham]

Wow I don’t know Ramses the 2nd temple had been moved. Thank you for telling us. I’m a big follower of Egyptology so that’s a great fact to know.

[@menorahleathersmith]

Gosh that unfinished obelisk never really took off from the ground 😮

[@bigbossmotovloger370]

Nice history of egypt,..

[@mogotsimpshane4713]

Herodotus -- an eyewitness -- makes the most definitive statement when he compares the Egyptians, by virtue of their black skin and woolly hair, to the Colchians and Ethiopians.

[@yardman8842]

The artifacts are magnificent

[@reignonem]

The story keeps changing.

[@paulgodfree2508]

5:40 I'm loving this dude

[@briannielsen9616]

Thanks ❤️

[@sikeftw]

Excellent

[@terrytwotoes3225]

Without the distraction of the Internet and television anything that is possible will be created

[@pieterbezuidenhout2741]

And until today, we all Glorify ourselves . . Our greatest MISTAKE.

[@bobbybates2614]

It has always been my ambition to visit Egypt I once had a book of the tomb of tutankhamun I took my son to the 02 arena to see the exhibit of the golden pharoh which I enjoyed

[@mugishagabriel6074]

The studying of ancient egypt is so great and large that a person who practises it is called an egyptologist and the subject is called egyptology.

[@menorahleathersmith]

His organs with united with his mummy... arrrhhh right yes that's a great ritual todo to him mummy.. The chess game too.. fascinating stuff 👌 👍

[@stephanelacoste3661]

Actually the Louxor obelisk was offered to France by Egypt's vice roy Muhammad Ali in 1836! It was NOT "taken" as the commentary says. Both Louxor obelisks were suppose to move to France but it proved too difficult.

[@jenkins1]

me watching this and nogging like a professional: yeah, i've been there and there as lara croft!

[@edwinfensham4899]

That's awesome I have been there💗💗💗💗💗💗😻😻😻😻😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁🌹🌹

[@edwinfensham4899]

Sure

[@tori24tvng]

How can we get license to this amazing documentary?

[@SOFIAPEREZ1958]

The Egypts and their special feeling between them and animal was as the way to related of their personality as the horoscopo. .the man and the animal together in the earth.

[@pauljavor2064]

gotta love the street fighter music ik the begging!!!

[@helgavanovich7611]

Cool documentary all round, but a bit disappointing for them to claim it was the first major stone structure. Goblekli tepe is muck older. Having said that the discovery is relatively recent, this documentary may have been released before.

[@morenofranco9235]

Back again - 5 months later. Did not realise I had seen this before. I have visited all these places in Egypt. Now with Covid travel restrictions - I travel the world VIRTUALLY. No passport control. No airport chaos. No hotels. It's quite nice.

[@Hockexx]

Quite the grind.

[@Hockexx]

There was do, there was a lot of do not.

[@thecheatingfoodie5028]

All the other tombs that were stolen were probably also full of treasures too

[@S.P.H.E]

Sbonge 🙌🏾

[@RejectedStoner]

The step pyramid could be a great clue as to how the great pyramid was actually built, no?

[@rickybalbia9612]

In ancient civilizations pyramids were very prevalent.. Egyptians, aztecs, mayans, even some places in Turkey and India.. These places were thousands upon thousands of miles apart without the benefit of modern education or technology like radio or TV to make them aware of each others presence let alone desire for pyramids. Most of them didn't even know of the existence of other countries/cultures/civilization's yet they all had this fatuation with pyramids.. And it wasn't just pyramids, was also sun worship, the ability to accurately measure time based on position of the sun and to navigate correctly using the stars. Advanced languages based on symbols and advanced arithmetic based on sticks and stones.. The general intelligence and iq is not even a quarter of what it used to be back then which makes you wonder if these great civilization's were so intelligent and advanced then what happened to them to just make them disappear.? And how did they gain all this knowledge and intelligence which we can't replicate now despite setting foot on the moon.? 🤷‍♂️

[@k3digichaos]

ah great Zahi Hawas. now I know I'll get the info that he decides to share true or not

[@bunzeebear2973]

I listened and Zahi Hawas was not mentioned once.

[@yardman8842]

I need to go see this touch it before i leave this earth

[@krisperian]

not available to watch in the u.s?

[@AchimEngels]

12:50 blooming phantasies.

[@cleverfitz779]

Good evening everyone

[@ketketgamingtv1286]

The Pyramid was made around 125,000 years ago. It is based on my Astral Projection time shift. If you learn Astral you can see it yourself.

[@chriscarrol9373]

???? I am but a feeble minded human. I don't understand.

[@vinceallenmeneses5883]

14:56 to 14:57 put the subtitle, what does it read when he says tuthankamon?

[@MR.73]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@vinceallenmeneses5883]

@@MR.73 whats the answer? I forgot.😊

[@LeicaM11]

Do you mean Tut Ench Amun?

[@claudiamanta1943]

Give me strength… 😂

[@ranalachman3451]

God loves Egypt too~.~

[@JUNXO]

There are some words that disagree ur statements in the bible

[@nielskedepielske]

wow... that ashraf mohi dude is REALLY proud of imhotep and the step pyramide of djoser!!! 😄

[@bunzeebear2973]

The STEP pyramid was the FIRST one and it is still standing. There is over 100 pyramids within the 100 miles between the Step Pyramid and the final 3 on the Giza plateau.(which we see all the time) Some of the other pyramids are made out of mud brick. Now it occasionally rains in Egypt and it rains hard. So the mud brick ones would dissolve and become a mud pile in the middle of the desert sand. The quick slap it together type of pyramid as some Pharaohs may have lived a short time and then died.(maybe a half dozen years).

[@Automaticdeer]

it is thought today that king tutankhamun's golden mask wasn't originally his but Nefertiti (his mother) as in those days men didn't have pierced ears and there is soldering made to adjust it to king tutankhamun

[@Endle185]

Bang on correct

[@murtazasaylawala1807]

1st view, 1st comment, 1st like, 😇😇

[@slavek033]

You should give yourself a medal, made of potato

[@tempest957]

Get updated! This is old outdated thinking and utterly inaccurate!

[@rugosetexture2716]

I am far from the first viewer, but I liked it too! :o)

[@SS-jt9ex]

No one cares. Get a life.

[@JUNXO]

@@SS-jt9ex i care 😘

[@fredricful]

Vorfor kadde ninja og samurai sverd for åver 2000 år siden?

[@nickkslarry6887]

How i wish to visit Eqypt one day....😪😪😪😪😪

[@FreeDocumentaryHistory]

I hope you can!

[@nickkslarry6887]

@@FreeDocumentaryHistory 😭😭😭

[@shawngraham3598]

Nice faerie tale!!! lol

[@walmartbag5698]

Can't even spell fairy

[@bunzeebear2973]

Then you explain how it got there. You got nothing.

[@shawngraham3598]

@@walmartbag5698 Scottish Celt. Pretty sure I got me spelling correct in English!

[@raghurajan6033]

I don't understand one thing... despite the wisdom and intellect, they possess how come the Egyptians believed the existence of soul and its journey to heaven or hell after death?🤔 may be its time to rethink ourselves keeping aside the so-called advancement that we made! 🤐

[@Masatisan]

I find it funny they sat tuts mummy is well preserved...its not, he was terribly preserved and his mummy is in awful condition.

[@bunzeebear2973]

But it is still a whole skeleton. The reason it is black is because of spontaneous combustion(something not known about then and even now with oil soaked cloth) My dad tried an experiment on his lunch break as he was working with linseed oil rubbing down doors. Seed oil was natural oils from seeds(linseed is low grade rye seed that they mashed up to extract the oil. Which is used in oil paint on a house. Any ways that and other seed oils were extracted from other seeds. The cloth ribbon is soaked in the oils and then wrapped around the body many layers thick. Perfume is extracted from flowers so that is added to the oiled linen. Then the mummy is put into an air tight granite sarcophagus which is put inside another one and another one. Kind of like packaging. . My dad had an oil soaked rag which he folded up nice and neat many layers thick and held his hand closed. After 30 minutes he opened the rag up and saw that the inner layers had caught on fire and burned to black ash. . Now imagine the pharaoh has been wrapped up in many layers of oil soaked cloth and put in an airtight box for 3000 YEARS. He is basically burning up inside the wrappings. They ALL burned up inside the wrappings. No one saw the smoke because the lid fit was perfectly tight. So all old pharaohs are forgotten by the younger generations. The fact there is any skeleton means good condition. All the other people have turned into dust.

[@esosaiyamu2581]

This was the time of African imperialism

[@sandwichninja]

North African is not the same thing as Sub-Saharan African. Two very genetically dissimilar groups. The term _"African"_ here is way too broad.

[@menthanetv7048]

How come it’s only the statue of Ramses that doesn’t have a broken nose. And surprise surprise his mummy is the only one with hair. And he was discovered by the British. Ow Britain, what has Africans done to you guys?

[@amymartinez350]

In the Bible it says that the Hebrews made bricks with less or no straw . Is there any discoveries on that

[@AchimEngels]

14:30 Nonsense. 'It was also robbed. More recently but still robbed.

[@em-jaytaylor6743]

Really? Every three minutes? Absolutely ridiculous number of adverts.

[@DjKjA14]

D power in the word of the Almighty God.

[@LeicaM11]

Cheops Pyramid was not a tomb!

[@star-kestv3205]

It was all about manpower no machineries, then. In essence, they forced slaves into hard labors to achieve these projects. Come to think of how they managed to achieve all that, men and women really suffered a lot in hands of these Egyptians as slaves.

[@JUNXO]

I agree

[@entary4723]

its all concetration camp like labor

[@Cowz19999]

Most of this was done by well paid skilled workers who flocked to these projects for the benefits. Slaves were used to do household tasks mainly.

[@albasdumbledorf5113]

Nonsense

[@bunzeebear2973]

No, no slaves were building royal buildings for the God king. It was the Egyptians who built it with scary magic. It was an honor to work on the structures(for that Pharaoh may "grant you " a spot in the stars with him. Besides that, for 4 months the farmers could not work their plot of land to grow food because of the ANNUAL flooding of the Nile which flooded all the land worthy of growing food. So the farmers were just raising a barn trick as they did not like sitting around doing nothing. Slaves would never get the chance to work on the "Mid" or any other temple. At most slaves built the town the workers lived at...the Qwicky Mart or peoples houses, or dig outhouse pits by hand in the sand.

[@rashmibhargav1343]

French just took the obelisk.. 😂😂

[@davidcoleman2796]

Maybe 30 years ago I would have believed this stuff . Not know . Just do the math . It would take 300 000 men to pull one 50 ton block . One ! They need to lay one block every 3 min for 20 years . Lmfao . They tried to put a 10 ton block on a boat . The boat sank ! I could go on .

[@Alien_civilizations]

How do you think they we're built. I'd like to hear your theory

[@nicolaiholm7458]

Conspiracy nut do you have a better explanation we need a good laugh

[@rahzanrafah7869]

I get your point.. It's humanely impossible.. Something is hiding or hidden

[@bunzeebear2973]

You COULD go on, but you have proved you are not that imaginative. So what about the 400 ton block? Also this was done in Guatemala by the Maya(that came before the Aztecs) They too did it without the wheel. Wheels don't work in sand. So, it is known by 2 ancient civilizations. Then there is those dudes on Easter Island and the large stone head carvings. Again another primitive that could do stuff that you can't imagine. So 3 ancient societies that did stuff we still cannot explain. Tough to be you. What 50 ton block? Average block size was 2 1/2 tons(so, 5000lbs)=the weight of a 1960's car. You know if you had 300,000 guys there your fridge could not hold that much free beer...as these guys will be given free beer...most would just stand around and watch the "game". I am more amazed they were able to make a rope out of grass. . No 10 ton blocks either. Limestone after a rain is more greasy and there are no hills so it is a slimy slide. Maybe? All they had for animals is a burro. The camel originates out of Syria by this time many pyramids were already built. . We know it is not Martians. Yet, it was done.

[@OvercastSun1]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I believe that thew Great Pyramid was created to honor one of the primary gods. That shafts allowing the god to see a particular star and another shaft for his penis (that had been lost when he was dismembered) it would explain a great deal. Just a thought.

[@sahazmarkk5624]

Surah Yunus (Jonah) 10:90 And We took the Children of Israel across the sea, and Pharaoh and his soldiers pursued them in tyranny and enmity until, when drowning overtook him, he said, “I believe that there is no deity except that in whom the Children of Israel believe, and I am of the Muslims.” 10:91 Now (you believe) while you refused to believe before and you were one of the Mufsidun (evil-doers, corrupts, etc.). 10:92 So today We will save you in body that you may be to those who succeed you a sign. And indeed, many among the people, of Our signs, are heedless

[@kasspacker9442]

What's the name of the narrator?

[@pieterbezuidenhout2741]

So what about INDIA , IRAQ AFGHANISTAN . . . . I would recommend doing some more STUDIES.

[@hanonomiri]

Eaven children know Egyptian people could not blid them with out technology.... Fact

[@user-rw4so7ex7t]

worries 😒

[@Loooppp]

A documentary number x...same images, same voice etc.

[@danielgill797]

The creation of lake Nasa seems to have distroyed a lot of Egypts history. Yes we could move things but really they should be left as they where intended. Just because we can do something, should we? Do we have the right to modify this legacy of other humans that came before?

[@tombarr1876]

Yes we do have the right. We do it all the time . We don't only destroy the legacy of civilizations , we destroy their pepole as well if we can to to benefit from their land. It called colonization

[@bunzeebear2973]

They took out as much as they could find and move it to higher ground because of the tourist industry. We had the knowledge of cutting up rock and moving it to higher ground. You can bet the area was thoroughly explored and everything was put on higher ground as it was. Do we have the right? Yup.

[@mojojo1980]

So they built a massive monument for the pharaoh but then put him in a plain sarcophagus with no artwork or anything 🤔......ok

[@wintersystems2488]

Egypt his not so far in history as you may think did you no that the Egyptian where kill an inslave by the American

[@menorahleathersmith]

His mummy was preserved but dry as a bone... must of skint her with all that gold.. what a bad child

[@pippastin]

I didn't know there were blonde Pharaohs. Who were they, the Vikings? 😮😅

[@DeniseF]

Pharaohs wore wigs, that's why

[@bunzeebear2973]

No blondes....red hair...might be due to mummification processes?

[@nestorhenriquez1321]

Ray or Ra?

[@hariomnishad3643]

Shilp Dev lakhan Kaha hai aur ram Kaha hai pramod amod me khoya hai Lagta hai

[@sodium9920]

42:01 onwards, where is any evidence of apis bulls, with markings, 70 ton coffins dragged into the tomb, " probably a gold mask" I need to see evidence of this " guess " work shoddy reporting.

[@bunzeebear2973]

I wanna know where did they get the silver from. Egypt has copper and gold. Silver is not a precious metal because it tarnishes to black(basically it rusts)

[@menorahleathersmith]

Any chance someone can call in wisdom to expose the gold lad ...

[@lemenyves34]

How is it that the only country that is bashed here is France. Please pay more attention to what you are saying.

[@user-rw4so7ex7t]

Dear EGYPT to meet you at your earliest reply to meet up with the new

[@RichjeBL]

Good documentary. But it annoys me when the correct pronunciation is AmunRa and not AmunRay... as historians you must know this? Also give the Obelisks back to Egypt where they belong!

[@sabihatanveer8494]

❤⛰

[@aaronellis6870]

Shame that modern Egypt is hell on earth

[@robertocavalli8979]

OMG this Egyptian man talking is stressing me out .... So annoying

[@matildagalan6696]

Why?

[@JanStremming]

History. Of John Kennedy.?

[@MicPenedor]

Jean 3.16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

[@bunzeebear2973]

Basically the same fairytale the Egyptians were fed.

[@robertjv]

Taking things from tombs in the name of discovery for display kind of disrespect the reason why the tombs and treasures were put inside the pyramids Idk I'd I should be disappointed or happy about humanity's so called 'discoveries.'

[@Crashed131963]

When the Muslims invaded Egypt in 700 AD Egypt never received to this day.

[@alexleitchbscopen3905]

Its Musk.Jobs,Gates et. al

[@John-ih3fn]

20y and to build with ramps and oxens is completely nonsense, no proof of evidence of this hypothesis. If u get serous there’s absolutely no evidence to suggest it was a tomb! Full stop.