The Fourth Dynasty of Egypt: The Age of the Pyramid Builders

[@Biographics]

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[@Lefrog420Blazin]

Thanks Simon I just picked up 18 packs

[@justincarroll1836]

This is absolutely disgusting. This is not a stop smoking aid this is a nicotine addiction maker

[@Lefrog420Blazin]

@@justincarroll1836 Smoking for 7 years and now winging myself off. Everyone has their problems and being one isn't helping.

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[@Lefrog420Blazin]

@@justincarroll1836 I never thought I would agree with ya but it comes down to a matter of choice to continue or Cold Turkey can be done if the will flows 💪

[@zarinaromanets7290]

If that beard gets any longer Simon is obligated to sing us a sea shanty.

[@honkytonkinson9787]

Funny, that was the first thing I noticed at he beginning of the video. It looks like he's trying to match his beard size to match the top of his head, to resemble a figure 8!

[@kayleelockheart8208]

Yea, but he has to do it with a fake Scottish accent, and a corncob pipe in his mouth.

[@jamellfoster6029]

I LOVE BEARDS!!!!! My husband has a beard that I braid & our 2 oldest sons ages 19 & almost 18 have beards... The almost 16 year old is also growing a beard & the 2 little ones will have beards by age 16 from the looks of it...

[@jamellfoster6029]

@@kayleelockheart8208 LMBO

[@TheLanceFrazier]

I'm only concerned about why his beard is green. I've noticed it in other videos and on several different screens-and, no, I'm not colorblind.

[@geoffofthescotts]

Please do more of these deep dives into Egyptian dynasties!

[@BlueBirdsProductions]

Please, ancient history is so much more interesting than medieval - modern !

[@robertestes167]

Agreed! Definitely need more of this Simon!

[@markandrew207]

Thanks for sharing my ancient memories

[@Agent-oo7iv]

Totally agree with you

[@benrosenthal3768]

Yes! Especially Middle Kingdom content. Mentuhotep II or Senusret III would be great.

[@squamish4244]

The sheer ancientness of the pyramids is mind-boggling. We are closer in time to Augustus than he was to the pyramids.

[@MusicGamesEverything]

It's even crazier that they are still standing

[@kanedaku]

@@MusicGamesEverything Its mind boggling how they managed to construct them. Those stones are massive! I've stood next to them when on the path to get into one.

[@rozzer8290]

Check out gobekli tepe, mind bogglingly old

[@ASMM1981EGY]

@@rozzer8290 not even near to the greatness of Egypt and the Egyptian brilliant engineered structures

[@rozzer8290]

@@ASMM1981EGY Just way older

[@swecheekypanda]

Fun fact. Khufu buried his mother Hetepheres I right next to his pyramid to keep her close to him. The renowned Egyptologist Joann Fletcher credits him as historys first known “mamas boy”. He also buried a big boat next to the pyramid which is probably the ancient equivalent of a frat boy getting buried with his favourite car.

[@Delivery_Boy_Roy]

cool lol, that's interesting ;3

[@noahfecks7598]

The funny thing about Napoleon NOT shooting off the nose, he brought a team of people solely tasked to research the area while they were there. And it was one of his commanders that found the Rosetta Stone that was repurposed in the construction of an ancient wall.

[@--enyo--]

When I was a kid I loved reading everything & anything about ancient Egypt and wanted to be an archaeologist. Then the reality that it’s a highly competitive field and foreigners have a difficult time working there made me choose a different path. But this video made me remember that flame a little. Thanks. 🙂

[@maccurtis730]

Good luck.

[@johnhanifin1952]

Incredibly mammoths still roamed the earth when the first pyramids were built thats how old they are

[@porteroffinland]

Almost as old as the queen

[@o-o2399]

Amazing

[@Wasted_Talent97]

I dont think thats true

[@porteroffinland]

@@Wasted_Talent97 it is true, mammoths went extinct from mai land continents 5600 years ago but a bunch of them survived on islands until 4000 years ago, roughly 2000 b.c, and the pyramids were built between 2600-2500 b.c

[@veespa_]

That’s a fascinating factoid, thanks for sharing!

[@ahmadfareedshawky]

You would be so overwhelmed when you come and see those masterpieces for yourself. They are beyond anyone’s imagination. To think that they were build thousands of years ago is mind-blowing. You wouldn’t believe it no matter how many times you see them, you’d be amazed every time!

[@emilyreich7548]

Ancient Egyptian content is always a win, keep it coming 😍

[@Keenhail]

Given the recent news that Captain Sir Tom Moore just died to COVID-19 at 100 after raising over £32m for the NHS & served in WW2 I feel like he’s deserving of a Biographic

[@christirowland858]

I second that!! 🔨 (Don't have a Gavel..so a hammer will have to do)

[@o-o2399]

Rip

[@Firegen1]

Third! The motion carries! (That's when you bang the gavel). He was a truly wonderful man.

[@Keenhail]

@@Firegen1 so long as we get enough like hopefully Simon will make the biographic

[@christirowland858]

@@Keenhail yeah..thats what I was going for. I just saw where he passed a little while ago..and saw your comment..and thought Simon would do a bangin' video on such a great person.

[@Northern5tar]

"Manetho who lived 2.200 years later" - If he's a source, you and I can be a source for what happened during the mid Roman Republic.

[@IudiciumInfernalum]

Something to do with Carthage i seem to recall.

[@finnyliverpool89]

Some of us today will be sources for the Roman empire in 2200 years!

[@kanedaku]

If you can become an actual scholar of the mid Roman Republic then yes, you most definitely can be cited as a source. You do not understand what a historian is. Edit: Cited*, not called*

[@kiwi-qu3fp]

Always good to wake up to Simon whistler.

[@jcrules101]

Legends say that Simon spends 24 hours a day making videos to educate the masses

[@lunaokittens9574]

No, only 23 - he needs an hour to sleep 😭😭😭

[@robertfox9301]

Legends also say that binging business blaze will increase that knowledge 10 fold... Allegedly

[@mathgasm8484]

or getting kids to start smoking then having Lucy gum.

[@robertfox9301]

@@mathgasm8484 allegedly....

[@morkusmorkus6040]

Actually, they continued to built pyramids during most of the following 28-ish dynasties. They just built them differently...in a bad way. Mudbrick cores instead of rock cut blocks like early pyramids. So when the casing stones were scavenged the mudbrick cores quickly deteriorated and crumbled. They almost look like natural hills now.

[@shawnure6707]

Progressive societies do not go backwards with their engineering and technology. The later pyramids were garbage because those were the ones that were actually built by the Egyptians that they speak of period. Everything else with megalithic structure was built by a society that was over 10000 years old. They got wiped out by the Younger Dryas.

[@Changamira]

@7:13 in late 2023 the nile tributary was confirmed to have existed and was instrumental in the construction of the great pyramids.

[@Pavlos_Charalambous]

We are talking about an age so ancient that even for the ancient Greeks was ancient history 😏

[@terryarmbruster7986]

Geeks or Greeks?

[@Jimrlst]

@@terryarmbruster7986 both

[@almitrahopkins1873]

Julius Caesar is closer to us than Alexander the Great was to the pyramids at Giza.

[@ShredwardWizardhands]

@@almitrahopkins1873 whoa

[@almitrahopkins1873]

@@ShredwardWizardhands 2450 bce to 343 bce is 2,107 years. 44 bce to 2021 ce is 2,065 years.

[@MetricMod]

Simon I’ve been watching almost from the start. It’s remarkable how much your channel has grown. Loving all of the different channels as well. Thanks for being here. It’s been a great ride. 😊👊🏻❤️

[@r.blakehole932]

When the children of Israel left Egypt the Pyramids were well over a 1000 years old. They were ancient history to Moses! For us today that would be like discussing the history of England before the Norman Conquest.

[@arbolrosa]

The angle of the bent pyramid was changed when the foundation started to sink and the inner walls started to brake. There's a bbc docu about it with a lovely redhead lady.

[@chubbiMommi]

Oh!!!! I love her so much! Her name escapes me... but I love watching her talking about Egypt!

[@lillianvoekler9908]

@@chubbiMommi she is my favorite egyptologist! she is fun and is so passionate!

[@noahfecks7598]

I believe you guys are talking about Joann Fletcher, and yeah, she's totally awesome!

[@ignitionfrn2223]

1:20 - Chapter 1 - The 1st pyramids 2:35 - Chapter 2 - Sneferu 6:25 - Chapter 3 - Khufu 9:10 - Mid roll ads 10:30 - Chapter 4 - Djedefre 12:50 - Chapter 5 - Khafre 14:45 - Chapter 6 - Menkaure 17:25 - Chapter 7 - Shepseskaf

[@insommmmmm]

A video on King Farouk would be great, eccentric man who was known for hoarding precious items and famously stole Winston Churchhill’s watch. One of the most fascinating wiki readups

[@julez2106]

Great to see you doing an episode on ancient Egypt, one of my favorite epochs of history🙌🏼

[@jennylawson1980]

Please do more videos on this subject and the Egyptian dynasty's please!!!! ❤️ a perfect escape during the pandemic and a great study

[@christirowland858]

A little bit of Simon on a Tuesday afternoon...Yes please!! 👍

[@theawesomeman9821]

Do you like the other hosts on his other channels?

[@TheProtagonistDies]

You mean to tell me it wasn't Aliens 😯

[@RIlianP]

It wasnt aliens, but only because you asked me to.

[@londonmmc]

Na, it was black people. But apparently this guy doesn’t like that because he’s left out the majority of Fourth Dynasty art - which clearly depicts them as such. Funny he only chose unpainted stele’s, statues with missing noses, and computer generated illustrations.

[@Firegen1]

I fell out the internet for a second. When did Simon's beard become so awesome? (Yes current times) That is magnificent.

[@matthewbloemker2115]

...And it gets more awesome with every new channel he launches... Simon Whistler- the hardest working man on KZbin.

[@reggiep75]

It is indeed a magnificent face rug... It's worthy of a Brian Blessed Award which will become the Whistler Beard Award on the departure of The Bearded Blessed!!

[@anthonygagan4398]

He is just to busy to keep up with the growth

[@thedarkonestaint6105]

I tell him how glorious it is almost every new video haha. I don't know how it grows so damn fast! We were even there for a while and then all the sudden he gained two inches on me, jealous. It's got to be because he shave his head. The hair just chose his chin instead.

[@erinw8787]

It is indeed most impressive 😍😍

[@kennyhagan5781]

Thanks to all of your team. This is a well done video that presents the subject in a more accessible way than what I've found in other places.

[@Tob1Kadach1]

"Now maybe you're sitting there at work" Simon are you spying on me again?

[@gaylonjohnson904]

Starting my day great!!! Keep it up Simon

[@jacobprice2579]

I’ve been inside the Middle Pyramid at Giza. It was one of the most incredible experiences of my entire life.

[@hellokristi]

I love this channel. A video on Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova would be interesting!

[@leslie1553]

Digging the beard Simon! 👌🏾

[@knowledgesarts-1589]

Oh hey ! I am from Egypt and your explanation was on the point great work !

[@lyleslaton3086]

Always learning from Simon. What we don't know about ancient Egypt fills more books than what we do.

[@maccurtis730]

And many of those books were in the Lighthouse of Alexandra.

[@spinyslasher6586]

Holy hell, a biographics and a megaprojects video at the same time?! Simon u okay?

[@felbarashla]

He puts out usually 3 videos a day. It just depends on what he releases.

[@Mrgunsngear]

thanks

[@crazysilly2914]

Didn't expect to see you here...?!?!?!

[@BlueSpiritFire1]

Fun (?) Fact about poor Menkaure: they found his sarcophagus when they first discovered his pyramid, and when they shipped it to England, the ship sank in a storm. Poor bugger's somewhere at the bottom of the Med 😢

[@cgt3704]

Is it just me or does Simon wants to break the record for the Biggest Beard

[@NewGuy2534]

Look up YoungRippa. He has Simon beat.

[@professorpancakes6545]

His beard grows 1cm for every new youtube channel he makes.

[@aristotleasparaguspodcast1129]

This is the only video that works on both Biographics and Geographics

[@MrTimothy87]

The Pharoh Djoser statue still has some string features...you can still see alot of detail in their work..He has strong Black African features and even some of the color on the statue is still on it but it looks like they dug his eyes out and acatched uo his face really good but still magnificent work..From the Sphinx, atatues and paintings are so impressive..Black African artistry at its best..He almost looks like the Sphinx..Black Excellence at its best during ancient times..Amazing truly amazing..thanks for your work on the video..

[@ListenerOfficial]

I would listen to him read the old telephone directories...

[@marcusalford1750]

My favourite time in history, great video as always 👍👍👍

[@samd939]

So many videos! This is one of the best days of my life!

[@syedmahmoodshah1281]

Now this is what I’ve been waiting for

[@halcyon64]

I swear, this guy is the David Attenborough of our generation lol. It's impossible for nearly any subject to be boring when filtered through Simon Whistler's narration.

[@itznotmytube]

Fourth Dynasty Pharoahs: "Ask me about my pyramid scheme!"

[@MisterTutor2010]

How to build a pyramid Step 1: Recruit laborers Step 2: Have each of those laborers recruit additional laborers. Step 3: Repeat Step 2 :)

[@varyolla435]

lol! Fortunately the ancient Egyptians did not need to recruit. The Pharaons maintained a caste of professional craftsmen who were "salary workers" - their salary being providing them housing and a stipend of food. Thus freed from the need to seek daily sustenance they could focus upon their task. These were supplemented by a labor pool of seasonal workers. Able-bodied Egyptians were required to labor part of each year on public works via _"the corvee."_ As an aside. Herodotus stated these workers were rotated out every 90 days and replaced by new gangs. As they did specific tasks being broken down into organized teams they would like factory workers on an assembly line require minimal training. Their supervisors would be experts like the caste of craftsmen who oversaw these gangs. 🤔

[@ericarose1979]

Egypt's history has always been fascinating to me. They are uncovering things all the time, just not fast enough. Could watch these shows all day long. Stay safe friends, car hop trays from amazon.

[@Name_Nah00]

2:01 Step Pyramid! I'm stuck!

[@briangarrow448]

More great content from Simon and company!

[@banba317]

The Pyramid workers also had decent health care... there are numerous remains from the workers cemetery that show the successful treatment of broken bones and even a man who lost a leg and lived for 14 years afterward. They definitely were not slaves.

[@Wulfdane]

The Pyramids were already ancient during Cleopatra’s time…

[@Thenamelesssting]

My favorite channel and favorite personality

[@timetraveltvniles7650]

The Pyramids were older to the Romans then the Romans are to us.

[@terryarmbruster7986]

And the Sumerians are to the ancient Egyptians like they to us. 🤓👍

[@sidsord2966]

@@terryarmbruster7986 no

[@almitrahopkins1873]

@@sidsord2966 that depends on which dynasty you're talking about and which part of the Roman empire. The first dynasty was around 800 years after Mesopotamian civilization started. If you consider the Byzantine empire as the Eastern Roman Empire, that fell about 600 years ago.

[@sidsord2966]

@@almitrahopkins1873 I was referring to the sumerians and Egyptians, I believe Uruk was established in 2500BC with gilgamesh and Egypt had Menes and narmer around the same era. Not really ancient to each other.

[@almitrahopkins1873]

@@sidsord2966 the first Mesopotamian cities were about 800 years before the first dynasty.

[@angiepangie2724]

A Geographics or Mega Projects video on the pyramid of Cholula please!

[@DeliveryMcGee]

TIL: That photo @13:45 that makes all three look about the same size is some impressive photographic trickery, making Menkaure's look as big as the ones twice its size. Shot from a loooong way off with a looong lens (the longer the focal length, the closer together and similar in size subjects at different distances appear, image search "airliner moon" for a different example of the same effect.)

[@JACKIE34-c2d]

Please do more deep dives into history in Egypt I really would b intrigued to learn and it’s easy to learn from you with your vids

[@diewaarheid9431]

The timescales involved when talking about Egypt is astonishing! As individuals, we really are but tiny flickers of light on the the deep, inexorable waters of time...

[@matthewmann8969]

Those monuments, statues, tombs, spinxes, pyramids, palaces, fortresses, castles, temples, caves, and wall writings are well presented still

[@josephstalin7801]

Keep this up Simon. I love this channel

[@karatos]

Simon: "Go back to work" Dont tell me how to live my life!

[@EmilyJelassi]

Very interesting video! Would love to see other videos about the ancient world.

[@juanjoserodarte5603]

Thank you very much for acknowledging which is the biggest pyramid in the world! It is something that isn't taught in school and isn't widely known.

[@michaelhowze8198]

If it makes you feel better my kids did learn it in school. Well my boy did the younger two dont really do history yet.

[@jessclark2082]

Simon, your beard is going to have its own Biographics episode if you continue like this! lollolol

[@ajeast800]

I’d love to see a biographics episode on Tom Moore. He sadly passed away today and is an English army captain Born in 1920.

[@jacques855]

What do fighting the British for your nation's sovereignty, being one to the top students in the history of Cambridge, taking part in WWI and WW2, being part of the creation of the league of nations and the UN as well as being a close confident of Churchill all have in common? They were all done by Jan Smuts! Please do a video on him!

[@KatariaGujjar]

UN, the most useless organization in the world, serving the interests of imperialists via UNSC.. and Churchill who deliberately killed 3 million people in Bengal Famine so that the Japanese wouldn't capture his colonies.

[@garethwigglesworth8187]

When I went to the Egyptian musem in Cairo behind glass there was an ostrich egg with pyramids on them. The ostrich egg was 7000 years old.

[@AnnabelRoss6789]

Good to know even back then they were making tacky souvenirs for tourists.

[@pierren___]

Above???

[@garethwigglesworth8187]

Just kidding guys I made it up. I bull a lot on KZbin for likes.

[@dudepool7530]

Awesome ending footage! I love seeing shooting stars with the pyramids. Almost makes me able to understand why people think "aliens built this". Almost.

[@leahfairs2392]

Could you please do a video on the Bog Bodies? They are fantastic, and would make a cool video on at least one of your channels :)

[@lethalcgreen8048]

Man your work ethic is something to admire you have so many channels and produce so many videos, kudos

[@lethalcgreen8048]

Oh and they're all quality videos with good information

[@RogueBoyScout]

Loved this Video. Whether 5000 years ago, or today, the rulers of our kingdoms always are obsessed with keeping it a "Family Affair". The more things change, the more they stay the same, ey ;) Keep up the excellent work...

[@ohlangeni]

Old Egyptian language is strikingly similar to Bantu language especially when adding the vowels on each alphabetical sound. Google Fergus Sharman's classification Egyptian language.

[@dudepool7530]

"Today's sponsor is Lucy" I USE MORE THAN 10% OF MY BRAIN, SHUT UP. Oh. Sorry. That name triggers me lol.

[@ggEmolicious]

Da Joser >.< for so long I just assumed I was learning something new and then it occurred to me I’ve just never heard it pronounced that way

[@justin.8777]

Simon! Please do Émile Zola or H.G. Wells!

[@imperiumbrasiliae]

Great video i personaly consider the iv xii xviii xix and xxvi dynasties the greatest dynasties of egypt

[@pranavstormer17]

15:26 I guess you could call him a sussy baka

[@vackradelfin]

Your beard is looking mighty regal Simon!

[@seven_hundred-seven_hundred]

Before we get started, I'd like to leave a comment... Thank you for addressing this topic. This is a good one and I'm certain that you will treat it with the utmost attention to detail and accuracy... having said that... let's roll the tape...

[@seven_hundred-seven_hundred]

Well done.

[@areiaaphrodite]

Please do more dynastic videos like this! So fascinating and different than the usual videos that are uploaded

[@NomadicNative]

That beard is starting to take on a life all it’s own.

[@Nika.1922]

could you do one on jane austen?

[@MrMcGreed]

Sponsor spot coming up... *clicks the right-arrow key frantically*.... Sponsor spot on Business Blaze... *leans back - ready for the show - "this is gonna be amazing"*

[@manifesteddestiny.]

The guy that was alive in anciet times knows less than people thousands of years later

[@azimuthenigma6621]

The pyramids were an electric power plant. ⚡

[@Oduinn9]

Facts.

[@rodziegman]

Not a single reference to aliens!?! Good video as always.

[@beachboy0505]

This is a good video. It concisely explains the pyramids and their builders of Ancient Egypt.

[@blakhorizon915]

I keep forgetting how good this channel is

[@barrybevan7096]

I love your stuff Simon. I really do. But you need to check out Graham Hancock or Bright insight.

[@kevineckelkampe2r]

He won't.

[@barrybevan7096]

@@kevineckelkampe2r your prob right. Lol

[@WormholeJim]

Sneferu, Nosferatu, ..Giuliani? It's not too far a fetch considering the mystery this whole thing is steeped in.

[@mosesw9630]

can you please do a video about the Peloponnesian war. In a previous video about Pericles: The First Citizen of Athens , you mentioned it and said it was for another time but did not do a video on it. so could you please do a video on the Peloponnesian war

[@bmabs35]

I come back to Biographics after a few months and Simon's beard has grown fabulously long.

[@Abominable_Intelligences]

Simon: Pomegranate Shrink Teacher: *NO POMEGRANATE!! NO POMEGRANATE!! NO POMEGRANATE!!!*

[@noahlogue]

You could do every dynasty you know.

[@robertfox9301]

3 videos in one day! Your just spoiling us now ❤️

[@sandybarnes887]

I see 8 or so

[@RicochetRita]

From what I recall, the Bent Pyramid has that shape due to instabilities during construction, which prevented completion as originally designed. It was decided to cap it off quickly by changing the angle.

[@varyolla435]

Correct. It was initially built too steep coupled with a poor foundation as the ground at Dahshur was not conducive to supporting a large heavy stone structure. That is why at Giza the pyramids were subsequently built upon the bedrock itself using larger stone blocks while they followed standardized angles of assent for their sides. The Egyptians were big on "recycling" in that when they found something which worked they usually applied it going forward. Corbelled halls and chambers are an example of this.

[@dewetloots1709]

Please fit more adds in your short videos, I really appreciate and love those.

[@Zeruel3]

Considering the perks labourers got, working on the pyramids was likely seen as a very good job, probably even a coveted one, the sort you'd want your younger sons or relatives to do since it'd keep them employed for most of their working lives if your farm/plot couldn't support them Plus back then coinage wasn't a thing and so you paid your taxes in a few different ways, giving some of what you grew/made to the king or doing labour on public works. So you'd sign up for a season working on Khufu's pyramid, eat like (or close to) a king and pay your families taxes to boot

[@treyRfifteen]

Elites don’t let anyone enjoy the same spoils. This is a fantasy, they were slaves, captured prisoners he said at the beginning of the video. It’s a work around to say they were treated well and that you wanted your kid to do slave labor on a pyramid.

[@jedisith3864]

Can we get a video about how reading Egyptian hieroglyphs was lost. I know more about the Rosetta stone than about how it faded from learned men.