Incredible Ancient Egyptian Queens

[@Mochrie99]

That bust of Nefertiti is one of my most favourite Egyptian artifacts ever. Though when I first saw it in a book as a kid, it freaked me out. Mainly because the one eye on her bust didn't have a pupil set in it, and that one completely white eye creeped me out thoroughly.

[@loke6664]

There are some experts claiming it is a fake though. The museum in Germany have been a bit dodgy about letting experts checking that out lately. But even if it would turn out to be fake, it is still incredible beautiful. And no, I am not saying it is a fake, just that it might be. The guy who found it was an expert at making copies of artifacts so it is certainly a possibility. There is also the fact that no similar artifacts made like that (the eye that is) have ever been found. That is no proof either but I wish they let some modern experts look at it, I don't think the museum dares in case it would turn out to be fake.

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

"Her husband who may also have been her brother" *Sweet home, Ancient Egypt*

[@RaimoKangasniemi]

In ancient Egypt royal sibling marriages were used to concentrate power. You basically had two types of dynasties: The first ones were overall more centralized ones, in which no royal females married others than their brothers or fathers, or more rarely uncles, and no younger brothers seem to have been able to establish cadet lines. Sobekneferu's 12th dynasty is an example of this, as was the preceding 11th dynasty. In both dynasties no royal female married others than their brothers except in one case possibly their uncle, and during the ~350 years the two dynasties existed, there are only two mentions of royal males who were not kings. Possibly the younger brothers of a king might have been killed after he ascended, although there is no direct evidence for this. These dynasties seem to have quite often to have literally died out (11th, 12th, 18th). The other type of dynasties were ones in which royal females both married their close royal kin, but also high officials, and numerous non-ruling male members of the dynasties held high positions in bureaucracy and priesthoods, and established cadet lines. These dynasties tended to bleed power to governors and viziers, and members of cadet lines often tried to usurp the thrones or created new local ones for themselves - the Libyan 22nd and 23rd dynasties are prime examples of these, but the 6th and its brief successors qualify also.

[@outrageousgamer315]

@@RaimoKangasniemi The clear joke...

[@RaimoKangasniemi]

@@outrageousgamer315 Yes, Sweet Home Alabama. I have an ear-worm of that song. Nonetheless...

[@user-ug8wx5er1w]

Ilhan Omar?

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:10 - Chapter 1 - Sobekneferu 2:40 - Chapter 2 - Hatshepsut 5:00 - Chapter 3 - Nefertiti 6:45 - Chapter 4 - Ankheseamun 8:35 - Chapter 5 - Cleopatra - Chapter 6 -

[@johannweber5185]

I am by no mean an Egyptologist but I have heard (somewhere in the internet) that Hatsepsut's behavior towards Tutmosis III might actually not have been too bad, as he was not locked away but rather that Thutmosis III could gradually learn his office. After all, Thutmosis has become a very powerful pharao. At the end I guess we will never know the exact personal relationship.

[@B2BWide]

I really love how Simon presents things and also his backstage works to collect the most appropriate information. Yet I studied Egyptology for some 15 years and I am rather disappointed now. Nefertiti is just one part of that as her actual rule is more than debated. But declaring Sobeknoferu as the first female ruler is quite bold. Just to mention a few quite well known queens who ruled by themselves well before Sobeknoferu, Meritneith, and the two Hentkawesses (er.... sorry, English is my second language, do you write Hentkawes I and Hentkawes II together this way?), Neith-Iqeret (also spelled as Nitikret or Neithikret).

[@SekhmetReverence]

Clicked so fast. Ive done so many college papers about Egyptian queens besides cleopatra and hatshepsut. Love the topic 😁

[@amakky1989]

Keep it up. I approve

[@phillygirl5957]

Love me some Ancient Egypt!!!! Thanks Simon👍💜 Much love from Philadelphia

[@Mr.Glidehook]

"...you could probably make a movie about this." I choked on hot coffee. Now I need a throat transplant.

[@Sideprojects]

You could get an artificial trachea. OGBB.

[@ataragunawan182]

You skipped Tiye, nefertari, and Ahhotep... Maybe you could cover them in another video featuring Egyptian Queens and in doing that cover Twosret, Ramses III Harem Conspiracy, Hetepheres (mother of Khufu), Merneith, etc.

[@noctum2854]

It is worth noting that this specific Cleopatra was Cleopatra VII of Egypt, as the name was quite popular in Egypt and elsewhere at the time.

[@MNewton]

I'm quite happy that I at least new the names of most of these, even if I previously couldn't have told you much about them.

[@MAGICCOFFEY]

not a week goes by without an annual viewing of The Mummy in my household 😆

[@Sideprojects]

The time in your house is confusing.

[@Condor-uc2lw]

@@Sideprojects rofl was about to say the same thing

[@ericlondon5731]

Love the humor in the presentation

[@kathyastrom1315]

When naming my first black cat, I wanted to give her an Egyptian name since she reminded me of the cat statues found in the tombs. But, I only knew Cleopatra (waaasy too common of a cat name), Nefertiti, and Hatshepsut, and how do you abbreviate those last two? I ended up calling her Amarna, after Nefertiti and Akhenaten’s capital city.

[@archstanton6102]

Nefi?

[@raharmakis]

Amarna strikes me as a great Cat Name. Well done.

[@tiamariajones6634]

The 2 cat gods in Egypt are called Bast and Anucket I named my last cat Anucket although my kids called her nunu 🙀😂

[@pamelamays4186]

So much inbreeding in Ancient Egyptian royal families, even the Habsburgs are creeped out.

[@richardvickers8117]

How about Queen Tiye? Wife of Amenhotep III and mother of Ahkenaten? Considered by some to be the power behind the throne

[@brianartillery]

I've always been fascinated by the Queen mentioned by Herodotus, Nitocris, who repaid the treachery of her court, by inviting them to a banquet in a new, and sumptious chamber, underground. When they were all comfortable, Nitocris withdrew, locked the doors, and then opened sluices that let the Nile flood the chamber. Herodotus says, that, to avoid the wrath of the people, Nitocris then threw herself into a chamber full of ashes. H.P. Lovecraft mentions Nitocris several times in his stories, as a disfigured demonic entity.

[@redjirachi1]

Then Fate said "hold my waifu printer"

[@acupofwhitetea]

Some suspect that Nitocris is not real, at least accurated. Like she is a warped fictional version created by Herodotus, who may have based Nitocris from someone else but put his own spin than make an accurate historical account. He does have a habit of adding his own fictional interpretation in his works, not to mention his hellenocentric view so there is some bias there.

[@toddmolenda]

Simon hardest worker on the internet

[@raharmakis]

Ancient Alien Astronaut Theorists posit that if Simon ever stops making KZbin videos... even for a hour, the Reptilian over lords that are slumbering under the ruins of Atlantis will awake. They are only being kept there by the Magical Incantations that are Simons Videos. It's the only explanation that makes sense when you take all factors into consideration and leap wildly from conclusion to conclusion.

[@wendiwelton5452]

Hey Simon, could you tell us about the hydraulic engine? Who invented it, it’s many uses, how it changed some industries (such as logging)? I was just looking into it and it looks very interesting.

[@TheEvilCommenter]

Good video 👍

[@loupiscanis9449]

Thank you

[@boomjykeo2]

That intro music for Nefertiti was massive 🔥

[@Acetalen]

Hey Simon, i would really like to see an episode about the Seveso-Disaster. Not really sure on which of your hundred channels thou. I think it would be long enough for sideprojekts, but a bit too short for megaprojekts

[@Belzediel]

Mentions crocodiles, shows alligators. Glares at editor. Points at alligators. Throws editor to alligators. Sets alligator as editor. Quality improvements.

[@Mloofylicious]

A very entertaining channel, or at least his presentation. "You can probably make a movie about this"-priceless 🤣

[@marymelchior9558]

Two corrections, women had more rights in ancient Egypt than anywhere until the twentieth century. Ruling as pharaoh was one of the few roles due to it being tied to the male gods of kingship. The obliteration of Hatshepsut didn’t start until he was quite old, he even built monuments to her himself. It is debated whether it was because a succession struggle or just some antipathy from Tutmose III son who also abolished the role of God’s wife. He seems to be the one who destroyed her monuments.

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Maybe if i started dressing up as a pharaoh, the West would respect me If Simon was a pharaoh, his beard would be the manliest of them all. The Abu Simbel statues would look even better with his face

[@lauriepenner350]

Dear Leader, you'd better get your serfs started on your pyramid soon. You wouldn't want to be buried in your mom's tomb with a bunch of another Pharaoh's stuff, like Tutankhamun. Tres tacky.

[@oceania68]

'Ancient Egypt' .... mysterious in all its wonder - and I still play the game Pharaoh and Cleopatra :)

[@jordanwilliams9300]

This was a great one!

[@EMurph42]

Hatshepsut had a massive Navy that she may have gone to South America with. There is evidence Egyptians landed there thousands of years ago. She was in love with the man whom built her temple & he disappeared from records shortly thereafter...she’s the most amazing Pharaoh IMHO. The end

[@pmgn8444]

1:40 - American alligators, not Nile crocodiles. The snout is too broad for a croc. May Sobek haunt you in your dreams.

[@Crazzy828]

Fun Fact: Cleopatra wasn't egyptian (she was macedonian greek, like all the ptolemaic rulers), so it's quite remarkable that she spoke egyptian. It was also common for egyptian rulers to marry close relatives/siblings, since it kept the power in the family, but it was rather uncommon for greeks. Since they ruled egypt as rulers that continued the line of egyptian pharaos, they more or less adopted that practice.

[@aceundead4750]

Pronunciations according to most archaeologists on tv: Sobekneferu; So-beck-nef-air-uuu. Hatshepsut; Hat-shep-soot. Nefertiti; Nef-ur-teat-ee. Was never able to tell what they were saying when talking about Tut's wife/sister Ankhesenamun, but from what i know about the language it's Onk-hes-en-ah-moon. Cleopatra we all know.

[@MeCJay12]

"You could probably make a movie out of this" For those of you interested in that movie it's actually a show in HBO Max called "Romen"

[@laztoth3104]

History 👍👍🤟💯. Thank you very much!! Simon!!!

[@mezi99360]

I'm really surprised Nefertari didn't come up here. She tends to pop up in these lists alongside Nefertiti, Hatshepsut and Sobekneferu, I've found.

[@DefinitelyNotEmma]

Let's be honest, most of us know one Egyptian queen just because the Roman Emperor was her personal simр

[@DefinitelyNotEmma]

@@hnewc1919 Marcus Antonius was her lover after Julius Ceasar. Now tell me how this is a fantasy lol. Couldn't care less who enslaved who btw.

[@aggromando7323]

So true! 😂

[@DefinitelyNotEmma]

@SamoaVsEverybody_814 awesome :o

[@DefinitelyNotEmma]

@@busimagen you mean like now?

[@dannypope1860]

I met an Egyptian queen in NYC last week. What a let down...

[@m.pearce3273]

How difficult is it to use the accepted term in talking about time. BCE or Before the Common Era and NOT BC

[@IndirectSoter]

Tbh it doesn't make that much of a difference, since it is still based around the birth of JC. I mean I'm not a Christian, but BCE and CE still seem kind of disingenuous and dumb to me.

[@SkunkApe407]

One, there is no "accepted" term, and many historians use them interchangeably. Two, BP, or Before Present, is currently more commonly used than BCE. So in closing, I pose a query to you. How difficult is it to NOT be an argumentative wanker looking for reasons to be offended?

[@NoNo-or2wj]

@@SkunkApe407 Comment of someone who takes for granted their Christian-cultured view of the world and thinks that everyone, including academics and historians, should frame things around Jesus.

[@YeeSoest]

Shoutout to Nefertiti for being the namesake of a piercing that has shocked me to my core when I first saw it...in a good way...a very good way ;) The images on google give me the creeps, picturing the process of getting it...but in real life it gave me something vastly different!

[@williamclarke8732]

I don't want to google it to save my eyes. What is it?

[@PyrusFlameborn]

@@williamclarke8732 .... a clitoris piercing.... I'm a guy but damn that must be painful to get.

[@williamclarke8732]

@@PyrusFlameborn Oh god....the pain must be unimaginable. But why though? Just why?

[@rachelbarrie5359]

Simon you forgot Rameses the 2nd's Great Royal Wife Nefertari. Even though she was married to Rameses 2 im sure she had some influence over the upbringing of Egypt just like Ankhesenamun was with King Tut.

[@rickythe2nd63]

It's simply fantastic how european painters love to make the royal Egyptians look white, and how it's still perpetuated. 👌🏿

[@rickythe2nd63]

@John Barber They were not white. Go ahead and be fooled.

[@rickythe2nd63]

@John Barber You can argue by yourself. Be well.

[@RaimoKangasniemi]

Sobekneferu might have had heirs: Egyptian separation of dynasties in the form we know it was created by Manetho (if he ever existed) in the 3rd century BCE, but it seems to reflect real division in Egyptian thinking, but not between ruling families but in great political changes (capital being moved, land divided ur united), and recently it has been strongly argued that her immediate successors, the two first kings of the 13th dynasty, would have been Sekhemre Khutawy Sobekhotep I(c. 1803-1800 BCE) and Mehibtawy Sekhemkare Amenemhat Sonbef(c. 1800-1796 BCE), and that they would have been sons of Sobekneferu's predecessor (and according to much later sources, half-brother and husband) Amenemhat IV(1815-1806 BCE), and thus just possibly might also have been her sons.

[@awkc63]

Making fun of Ancient Egyptians for incest is like pot calling the kettle black, isn't it... Englishman?

[@chrisyanover1777]

Wouldn't this topic be better under the Biographics page instead of Sideprojects?

[@AramisNailz]

Is this channel Side Projects or Side Pieces? Oh crap, I think I just gave Simon another channel idea.

[@exervolvestudio2343]

How do you find these things.

[@OomaGooma]

Huh...I thought this video was gonna be about geriatric drag Queens from Egypt that are FABULOUS.

[@keithprice4711]

Very different video that would be, but I'm sure they're still drag Queen Cleopatra's

[@peterdicazzo3391]

That Beard is Amazing!

[@Veptis]

There is a Drunk History episode on one of them, and I hope you watched that or get to watch it soon.

[@prudencepineapple9448]

I need some help if I may? What is that poster behind Simon's right shoulder. It's quite large. It's driven me crazy for many months if not years. It's my OCD slipping out.

[@winnifredforbes1114]

I have always thought that Nefertiti looks like a space alien! Very strange! 😱

[@Ahalaya]

Fun fact: the "queens" of ruling pharaohs were called Great Royal Queens. I wanted to look it up recently.

[@danielkarmy4893]

3:55 - well, you know, she was Pharaoh...that might have had something to do with it!

[@Direkin]

I remember Hatsheput's temple only because it was in Assassin's Creed Origins.

[@BonShula]

Why is this on sideprojects and not on toptenz?

[@RosinGoblin]

I was tripping on shrooms last week and was listening to some beats antique and had a very spiritual egyptian like trip. It was very interesting

[@OzzyMandias]

They made a movie...'Carry on Cleo'

[@delightsavino4923]

These are only queens we know of. Hmmm 🧐 what else is under the desert 🐪 . That’s more intriguing, what Queens have we not found. Many…

[@redvorno]

The only real queens in Ancient Egypt are all the cats

[@TheN0odles]

The only real cats in Queens, are all from Ancient Egypt.

[@billywarren007]

Me as an Egyptian History fan: We got him boys

[@keithprice4711]

7:49, she really was married to her father, grandfather and a brother 😱

[@ethanaleman]

Clopatra will always have my heart

[@carrielange2692]

Have you done a video on body farms? Where they let bodies decompose to study the forensics? My aunt was telling me she wanted to donate her body to science, even if they just throw her on the ground to rot on a body farm. I was like "wait... what?" 😳

[@castadivanorma8478]

What about Arsinoe.She was more successful than Cleopatra,by far

[@DupeFortGaming]

Hey Simon, I think they've made a movie. It's called "Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?"!

[@Sir_Uncle_Ned]

I keep hearing that there is no such thing as a new story. After hearing about IRL Romeo and Juliet I have become more convinced that this might be true

[@JohnPaul-ii]

Ancient Egypt, Keeping it all in the family.

[@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718]

in/cest is best.

[@recktrain2860]

she didnt sleep with him

[@Mochrie99]

I love that little retch sound effect when Simon mentions the grandfather.

[@fvckyoutubescensorshipandt2718]

@@Mochrie99 lol some chicks dig men 50years older than them. Or at least love the actress money too much on sites like Oldje.

[@gabrielbarraza5886]

You talking about a movie is rich 😝😂good obe

[@mikehydropneumatic2583]

I want them all, I want them all and want them now!

[@shookings]

Next time you do anything involving Ancient Egypt and need pronunciation help, look up "Zahi Hawas talks about [name]". He's definitely got the pronunciation down. He's also an even bigger bellend than Simon

[@tucsonorganist]

And no mention of Neithhotep? Sad.

[@HeatherK82]

I 💜 SIMON because he’S SMART Sexy-Smug (SMEXY) SARCASTIC I also dig dudes who voluntarily shave their domes ( I married one myself) I’ve been a fan since 2016. It’s so nice to see how you and your FANTASTIC crew have created a plethora of amazingly fun and educational channels 🤟

[@dwhitefield4348]

1:20 Those are alligators.

[@xxibjrosek]

And we thought the royal houses of Europe were bad. At least they learned, unlike the Egyptians.

[@DefinitelyNotEmma]

A huge reason why they did it is because incest was a common occurrence in their religion and mythology, many of their gods married their siblings or even children

[@keithprice4711]

I guess technically the Europeans were worse because they came thousands of years after the Ancient Egyptians, they should have known better

[@PyrusFlameborn]

@@keithprice4711 Ancient Egypt nobility married siblings to siblings and even parents to children. European nobility married cousins to cousins (and these cousins were often farther removed than 1st cousins) and nephews to uncles/aunts. For hundreds of European dynasties this wasn't a problem for centuries. Just a few families (e.g. Habsburgs) took it a step too far.

[@keithprice4711]

@@PyrusFlameborn yeah, I guess that's true, both wrong but the Egyptians were certainly worse

[@Richardincancale]

I didn’t know you were Egyptian ;-)

[@MeritaKing1]

I’m named after Meritaten, daughter of Akhenaten and wife of pharaoh Smenkare.

[@timothypeterson4781]

Ancient Egypt was actually quite egalitarian between the sexes.

[@DefinitelyNotEmma]

And very fond of incest

[@G_Flash84625]

@@DefinitelyNotEmma The game the whole family can play......

[@DefinitelyNotEmma]

@@G_Flash84625 here in germany that's a stereotype often associated with people from the middle east, looking at ancient Egypt I know why xD

[@DefinitelyNotEmma]

@@hnewc1919 I mean, marriage between cousins is still very common between them nowadays, so yeah. Every stereotype has some truth to it.

[@shravansays]

@@DefinitelyNotEmma It still exists, I'm aware of one Tribe/community in India in which Offsprings of Brother and sister can marry.

[@mandalor45]

Simons side piece queens

[@TheMarionetteKitty]

The Mummy came out when I was in my 20s. Now I feel old as an Egyptian mummy LOL!

[@christinebenson518]

You'd most likely be dead if you were in your 20s when The Mummy starring Boris Karloff. That was 1932.

[@Condor-uc2lw]

Yaaaas Queen SLAY QUEEN...im sorry

[@kylarstern7627]

I'm subscribed to about 60 channels, maybe more. How many do I watch? 10.

[@beachboy0505]

Great video for a sunny Saturday 🌞 😎 All that incest and in breeding Lol 8

[@Jaysin412]

Niceee

[@JustPlayTheGame76]

Wait, is this Game of Thrones OR Egyptian history? lol

[@maninashedandyp]

What girl doesn't dream of marrying there father and then grandfather 😂

[@terryhuffaker3615]

marrying their...

[@jimmccauley2424]

How about the "Harvey girls". Harvey restaurants, early U.S. railroad stops.

[@Vordb666]

Hey

[@m.pearce3273]

Akhenaten and not Nefertiti was responsable for Mono Theism. Nefertiti was the first Adept this is accepted as She is pictured often in the role of Priests or the Pharroh. Your writer got this one Person backwards in her Role as Pharroh's First Wife

[@charlesdirken7326]

Thousands of rooms????

[@amaccama3267]

There's some great jokes I can think up just off the title. 😂😂😂😂🤩😂🤩

[@lilkingspade]

Have you never watched the mummy? It's pronounced "anak-su-na-moon"

[@maxdurk9611]

How is this a "project"? I think you just randomly decide which channel to post videos.

[@theemissary1313]

Jesus Christ, Simon, it's not difficult, it's pronounced "Sobekneferu".

[@jenat82]

Bloody hell yes. We think the Spanish royals were bad for inbreeding. The egyptian ...how long did they run with the first born daughter and first born son should marry? That's surely the top prize for inbreeding. I stopped the video 2 min in to write this. Suppose that joke went over some heads. Anyway, back to the video! 😁 I wonder why there are still so many people who demand that Cleopatra was black. The embers reignited when Gadot got the role just. She actually seems perfect for it. Geographically, and looks.

[@lilrossing3829]

Hi

[@kralle98]

yooo

[@giladautumn2919]

THE BLACK PHARAOH PLEAS

[@billiemink77]

PHENOMENAL FEMALE PHAROAH'S SEGMENT LUV

[@jakestatefarm3477]

Insert joke about being early here.