This is a FIVE STAR film...the best documentary that I have ever seen about ancient Egypt. It explains, with the most beautiful imagery, the creation and purpose of Egyptian hieroglyphics and art. Extraordinary! Inspirational!

@jcaylalove8713

2 жыл бұрын

Why not 5 stars then?

@paulm283

2 жыл бұрын

Right on!👌👍

@jobynamcgee8563

2 жыл бұрын

I am a modern day scribe, draftsperson and designer, and I think you have it exactly right. Ayla is right, as well.

@The_Space_Born

2 жыл бұрын

Egyptians were a Caucasoid people.

@getstraight7403

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely 💯 ‼️

The Egyptian reminds me of how we draw, when we first learn to draw. The Egyptians used drawing for most things important. Like writing. The many art work that is shown is definitely not European or Caucasian!

This was soooo good. I did not want it to end! Thank you very much!!

You're BACK!! Love every single one of your fabulous videos!!!

I have seen this documentary 4 times at least, one of the best here on KZread. Everything needs to watch if you enjoy Egyptian culture and customs.🇪🇬

Thank you very much for the beautiful contour-specific episode on Ancient Egyptian art, and the heart warming flutes made from the reeds that thrive on the Nile banks.

That unfinished tomb with the grid pattern is fascinating as can be. As an artist I’m captivated by the ability to see the “process”. Amazing

@thomasdykstra100

2 жыл бұрын

Same here...AND the gorgeous, unpainted, figurative relief-work in the "Rameses" tomb, with eyes detailed in black!

@awuma

Жыл бұрын

Horemheb had a decent length of reign (although he wasn't young when he gained the throne), and as a commoner he already had a magnificent tomb and forecourt in Saqqara, so I'm a bit puzzled by the incompleteness of his royal tomb KV57. Why didn't Paramesse and his son make a bigger effort to finish it, or were they too preoccupied with asserting the Ramesside claim to the succession?

@vanderteufel

Жыл бұрын

@@thomasdykstra100 Translation should have read "Ramose", a vizier in the 18th Dynasty. Tomb TT55

Valdemar, you are AMAZING! Thank you so much for these extraordinary documentaries.

Wonderful documentary with such fascinating details!

A wonderful, fascinating and educational documentary on egyptian writing!

Yes Beautiful Black Ancient African Art

@jeff1993.

Жыл бұрын

Yes Rahotep and nofret and the seated scribes statues are totally black people, you’ll probably say they’re fake though 😂

@Earthbound369

Жыл бұрын

Doubtless there were Nubian scribes.

@baerkaabnaab2388

Жыл бұрын

@@jeff1993. Rahotep has had the brown paint scraped off. Just look at the forehead and fingers and see the true color. When they scrape the black/brown paint it looks pale

@jeff1993.

Жыл бұрын

@@baerkaabnaab2388 no evidence of that buddy, that’s what you wish it is, the statues are thousands of years old…..

@jeff1993.

Жыл бұрын

@@baerkaabnaab2388 why would anyone scratch the paint off? You know how crazy you sound?

Great documentary. First class, thank you.

Hooray for Perspective!

Ah, a Perspective documentary on my homeland. Beautifully presented, thank you~ The dance with the stick is still a part of the North's tradition. It's called Saidi. i miss my home ♥🇪🇬

@listenup2882

2 жыл бұрын

Stick fighting is found throughout Africa.

@DrGogu-yd6jc

2 жыл бұрын

Stick fighting is a southern thing in Egypt actually. I’m Egyptian.

@nefwaenre

2 жыл бұрын

@@DrGogu-yd6jc it's a traditional thing in that comes from the North. Doesn't mean it can't be done anywhere else. :)

@listenup2882

2 жыл бұрын

@@nefwaenre it actually went from South to North. It is practiced in Sudan, West Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa. It is an African thing.

@georgemckenzie1824

Жыл бұрын

@@DrGogu-yd6jc i was wondering do you consider yourself african?

Such a beautiful documentary..

A great film with a more indept look at Egyptian living and death than we hear in the usual documentary of Egypt pharaohs and the everyday civilians of the time.

It's ironic that at 6:12 to 6:38 the scholar explains that you would never find a painting, wall relief depiction, or sculpture of an individual without a name because it served no purpose; would be considered dead/inert. Yet, the beginning of this documentary heavily features "the seated scribe" (at the 2:00 mark) that has no name. No inscription at all. With physical features of someone from Europe out of scope of named and inscribed scribe depictions of scribes depicted elsewhere. A dubious piece that is said to be found by Auguste Mariette in 1850 in Saqqara even though Mariette didn't find any artifacts in Egypt until 1851 and none of Mariette's works discuss nor illustrate "the seated scribe," that of course has no name - no inscription at all.

@view1st

2 жыл бұрын

Possibly a forgery. It has also been suggested by some that the famous bust of Nefertiti may also be a forgery as the ancient Egyptians were not really known for their realistic depictions of people. For them realism or naturalism in art doesn't seem to have been very important.

@bigcuz8356

Жыл бұрын

Believe it or not,This youtube app completely deleted my comment while I was typing it....All this is bs starting with the idiots trying to tell someone else's story....Dig up Moses & put him on display or any of the characters in their books ..grave robbing bastard thieves

@incorrba

Жыл бұрын

They appear to have painted people in differing skin-tones. I would say realism was somewhat important to them.

😀 Extremely informative and held my interest 😀 very thought provoking 😀 Thanks

Omg an actual documentary about ancient Egypt! So much of what I've tried to watch is trash that I couldn't even learn anything I didn't know from a semester of undergrad (or, worse, it's that terrible alien propaganda). Thank you for making/releasing this.

Awesome doc u guys, watching it again now!👌

Sensational, thank you!

Beautiful video and very interesting and educational program thank you for making it available to see

Got my subscription. Excellent documentary

This is a very good documentary 👏

The hair details in King Ramses’ tomb is incredible.

So amazing so we'll done. So much information so much beauty. One of the best I've seen. Thankyou for sharing this wonderful film 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.

Ancient Egypt docu??? instant like and viewing. Nice to watch in this insane planet

Utterly fascinating film about the complex character of the ancient Egyptian civilization... Very well done!

Great stuff here!!!

This is a very informative documentary. I like how it explains the importance of scribes in correlation to artwork. I do want to preface that these documentaries are not school appropriate, as I teach art history. Good thing I knew this going forward...

Brilliant, beautiful! So informative...

Great job! I learned so much.

This is the best art history channel ever. I love watching all the videos.

THESE ARE AWESOME! THANKS 😊

Magnificent documentary! Brilliant research and reportage… very illuminating. Thank you

Best of the best!Thank you.Namaste.

Great presentation!

Excellent documentary 👏👏👏👏

Great! Thanks!

There are many similarities to the designs used in Native American culture, interesting.

@listenup2882

2 жыл бұрын

Similar to the designs of other African cultures. Africans did settle the Americas long before Columbus or Amerigo de Vespucci.

@reggied1811

Жыл бұрын

@@listenup2882 Amen

Beautiful work

Great Ancient Black African status.

@charlesadeoye1404

Жыл бұрын

@APEP HATEM go and read your history books properly and use common sense and stop sitting on others history. You are one of the invaders offspring. Even herodutos said black skinned with woolly hair. What makes me laugh is that in recent times a lot of you guys agreed that the so called black nubuians ruled Egpyt at one point apparently because all truths can no longer be denied. How interesting is it that non white people all over the world will always want to put the black race down LOL. So the so called dumb race ruled Egypt for a while

@jeff1993.

Жыл бұрын

@APEP HATEM don’t listen to black people about Egypt, 95 percent of them say they were black because they’re biased, they just ignore statues and dna. Yeah blacks built Egypt and then all just left down south and live in poor countries now.,.yeah ok lol

@mirbear72

Жыл бұрын

Another culture vulture. Get a life

@HudaYassin-bj4zv

Ай бұрын

قدماء المصريين مصريين ليست افريقي ليست سود البشرة بعضهم سمراء اللون من سمرة الشمس احنا مذكورين فى القرآن الكريم وعندنا والأدلة لا تنسبو أشياء ليست لكم

@HudaYassin-bj4zv

Ай бұрын

أنا أعتذر لا أقصد الإساءة عن قولى لون البشرة السودة هذا خلق الله

Very informative, the art is fantastic.

Masterful presentation. Thank you. One criticism however: Do away with the "voice-over" at such a high volume! This may not be a problem for those who only understand one language, but if you speak at least two or more languages, it's nothing but a jumble of noise. Subtitles may work better. Or simply eliminate the original speaker's voice and permit the translator to get on with it. Just an idea.

The monumental exercise in futility. Beautiful and comprehensive film.

Fantastic!

This was refreshing, packed full of information that I've not heard regurgitated 1000 times by shorts makers or Tic-toc'ers, give it another week or two though. 🙏🤔🤭🤬

As always , great film. Much appreciated 🙏 As an Egyptian, this information made me so proud!

@georgemckenzie1824

Жыл бұрын

yoda-if your ancestors were from the middle east, youre a descendant of the invaders, circa 600 ad, and can only be proud of striping pyramids to build mosques, garbage and fllth in 3000 years old monuments. telling people , or inferring your ancestors built something , you as a descendant know nothing of is more theft and lies.period. to show you all how fowl you people are, indigenous blacks, are left out of the 15 billion a year, taken in by african achievement. you got nothing to be proud of mentioned in this documentary, unless lying and usurping others achievement are now laudable.

@streetprophet007

Жыл бұрын

But the creators of Egypt now live in eastern/ western Africa, present day Egyptians are the invaders, the later Egypt

My Ancestors

As maravilhas de antigo Egipto ñ há comparação. Uma civilização única.

Thank you!

An excellent video, but I do take exception to the fact that pictures and text that were obviously in the same hand proves that the artist could read. It does not. Once, a friend's mother knitted me a sweater. She did not read English, so I asked my neighbour to write a thank you letter in Urdu for me to copy. My neighbour looked at the finished results and was shocked that it looked as if it had been written by someone with a university level education. My friend's mother would not accept that I was not fluent in Urdu, yet I had no idea what I was writing. A good artist can copy anything, and I am just an adequate artist, yet achieved it twice. The other time was with Arabic decorative script used on an image of a mosque. This was to be published, so the publishers had it checked; the Islamic scholar approached said that it was "perfect", and had been written by an "expert", yet I had copied it from a photograph. So, in my opinion, the "evidence" is being used to prove more than it actually does.

@thomervin7450

2 жыл бұрын

Similarly, in Europe, when Latin was used in legal documents, scribes would copy a model document without ever being able to understand the language.

Love middle eastern art from Egypt to India ❤

Why don’t you show all of the many, many images of blank and brown Egyptians?

@debrajohnson3851

Жыл бұрын

@APEP HATEM Egyptians are descended from Mizraim, one of the sons of Ham in Genesis 10:6 in the Bible. All Black people are descended from Ham, including the ancient Egyptians who were not the wheat-colored Arabs “we” see today. Black and brown ancient Egyptians are not shown due to racism of whites and Arabs, who sell racist figurines of Black men to this day near the same pyramids that Black Egyptians built.

@RayBuckner

Жыл бұрын

@@debrajohnson3851 Amen. Those Arabs currently residing in the land of Kemet are descendants of Arab invaders, not descendants of Pre-Dynastic or Dynastic Kemet. They always use the word “we” like they made any contributions to this marvelous indigenous African Civilization. There is no excuse for any intelligent person to deny that the early Nile Valley inhabitants were true Africans. Ancient writers all the way to todays researchers have verified this.

@darkmattersproject2951

Жыл бұрын

@APEP HATEM We. You transplant. Like the white people of America. Go back 1000 years. Not one white person. Look what happened in 400 year's. You don't think the same thing happened in Egypt. Look how dark the present day people look in the Nile valley. Still black. You know why? Because Muslims see black as evil. The Quran states it. Your prophet Muhammad hated black people. He idolized white skin

@jeff1993.

Жыл бұрын

@APEP HATEM ☝️😂 an Afrocentric is mad lol.

@jeff1993.

Жыл бұрын

@@debrajohnson3851 yeah black Egyptians built the pyramids and all just left down south and live in poor cities now yeah right. pyramids were built in the old kingdom, Rahotep and nofret, seated scribe, ptahkhenuwy and his wife, statue of Kai from Giza are statues from the old kingdom, yeah totally black people all right 😆

Just rewatched this DOCU once again and I can confirm that is very interesting, and very well made, in short, it is GREAT! The only critique I have about the filming is: show less of the narrator's faces and more about the artifacts spoken about, but this is probably only my taste. I love the Greek former director of the Turin Egyptian Museum: she did very well there from what I've heard ( it's too long since I didn't return to that wonderful museum to see that in person, which is somehow comparable to Luxor's museum, even if the former one has incredible pieces)...

@indigocheetah4172

Жыл бұрын

I agree .

@heenanyou

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you. Too many egos showing up in some of these videos. We don't need to see people's faces when we could be seeing the artifacts

@indigocheetah4172

Жыл бұрын

@@heenanyou ,why are so many people commenting on the video . The narrator doesn't need to be seen . As it is a distraction .

Almost touching somehow. A really good one.

Thanks!

nice, thank you

Wondrous presentation, thank you

They look just like me in those tomb drawings!

I bet they had a huge surprise when it came to the "afterlife".

What is that song during the ending Credits? It is hauntingly beautiful.

One thing guys - the OST is just AMAZING!!! It is a pity that it was not released in official distribution for purchase. 😪

Love to Egypt 🇪🇬 form Canada 🇨🇦 hope to visit your magical nation someday

HI TO YOU FROM LORD CHARLES BORROWS GOOD JOB M8 FROM U.K. XX

2 voices doing my head in,subtitles would be so much better.

Notice all the people Are all colors of brown, Not white !

Wonderful! Nefer as the Ancient Egyptians would say. Loved the ending showing contemporary Egyptians still working the land and fishing as their ancestors did!

Fascinating documentation. On or around the same period, there were other great civilisations that existed,i.e; Mesopitamion & Indus Vally ( Harrapan ). No written or lack of written records exists, other than artifacts used during the times. Maybe these are yet to be discovered in the Iraqi and Indian regions.

@IshtarLinqu

2 жыл бұрын

Nupuqi Om-Re Khonectics chamber degrees will guide you

@georgemckenzie1824

Жыл бұрын

esjey-2 different civilizations. and why isnt these iraqui civilizations encapsulated under a discipline like egyptology? because the onus was on displacing the ownership of the african prototype of society, statehood, medicines, surgery, sciences, astronomy, architecture, civic and governmental responsibility, reading and writing and several other advancements, while westeners were teaching euros pioneered these things. all the fathers of greek disciplines , like medicine, philosophy, advanced math, astronomy etc , were given to greeks, who in their own words, attributed their knowledge to black scribes.

@lucillejerome5511

Жыл бұрын

@@georgemckenzie1824 Which of the Greeks attributed their knowledge to black scribes?

@georgemckenzie1824

Жыл бұрын

@@lucillejerome5511 i knew that would be a sticking point. one querry :Like his contemporaries, Pathgororus journeyed in his youth to Egypt where he studied for almost 15 years. He travelled to Egypt for the purpose of education, and took advantage of the friendship between his follow Greek Polycrates and Pharaoh Amasis. Polycrates gave Pythagoras a letter of introduction to Pharaoh Amasis.he admitted that many who are "celebrated among the Greeks for intelligence and learning" studied in Egypt. When Africans finished building the pyramids in 2500BC, it was 1,700 years before Homer, the first Greek writer, began writing The Iliad, the European classic. Hippocrates was a Greek physician born during the 5th century BC. Early in his life he traveled to Egypt to study medicine. After his studies Hippocrates spends some time as a traveling teacher before returning to Athens. he credited imhotep who died thousands of years before hypocrates was born, and imotep credited his own ancestors for his knowledge. now do we have to prove , ancient egypt was an african civilization, too? that info was literally once click away. either the claim was to far outside your frame of reference or all blacks acknowleging their collective histories, are afrocentrics...or finally euros are all known for their complete honesty and integrity when controlling narratives to profit off of foreign policy.

@lucillejerome5511

Жыл бұрын

@@georgemckenzie1824 I know that the Greeks learned from the Egyptians, more than we were ever taught. You said specifically "black scribes" so I asked for that information thinking you had specific information about "black scribes". Didn't expect an insult or an assault on my integrity.

At 1 part the fighting men, maybe boys.Their not ruffians at all.Its fine white linen.The long hair is held on by bands.Probable fine expensive silver, cloth or gold.A show battle.Really cool piece.

Really excellent presentation. One concern - a museum worker is shown very cautiously and carefully carrying a decorated stone to her workspace, wearing gloves as is appropriate when handling an ancient object. Then she was shown cleaning the stone using her bare hands. Were the gloves just for show?

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽

Ancient scribes of India are called - KAYASTHA. Very similar history to the scribes of ancient Egypt. Great video thank you for uploading

It's strange that reconstruction of the Egyptian Monuments is taking much longer than the Original work . The Stone Masons of ancient times were remarkable in their precision and dedication in everything they built and erected. It seems that nobody wants to even attempt to re-create their work on any kind of scale other than a very few minor tries that just don't amount to anything. After centuries of study it still can't be figured out exactly how this extraordinary volume of construction and artwork was accomplished.

@fromabove422

2 жыл бұрын

ur a naive human being

Inana and Ebih and the Scribal Tradition Paul Delnero

The way in which the documentary makers put these topics in perspective makes me wonder if the 'book of the dead' is a guide from the dead ancestors for future generations on how to live life on earth as a human being before it ends in order to enter the realm of Osiris satisfied and peacefull in a blissfull state of being.

Were are the Melanated people that would have came from that region doing that time . I'm a malatto and I wouldn't be if i stayed there .Where are them people from that are telling the story ? They should tell where they come from

Großartig, noch nie ist mir die künstlerische Begabung der alten Ägypter so nahe gebracht woren.

Four thousand years ago. Unbelievable antiquity. Might as well be forever in human terms

Ostraca were like cartoons. Paper was almost always expensive, so artists used to find old boxes and use them to make rough drawings. These drawings were often used to practice on and make simple preliminary sketches for bigger works (as not to waste money with more expensive material during development of the work). The boxes were carton, and these more simple sketches were referred to as carton sketches which we now call, “Cartoons.” This is what ostraca were. Simple waste material used to practice your art on.

very important messenger

20:46 I wonder if this scene inspired Escher in his depictions of birds.

Those stones were probably akin to sketchbooks.

This was an amazing documentary but horrified to see the restoration work being carried out so meticulously at around the 38 minute mark. Maybe the best of intentions but these people are scrubbing out so much background information that it just feels criminal to me. This could be compared to getting rid of those nasty old sketches behind leonardos paintings. Im hoping this is actually well meaning & not a cleanup of too much info for us meer mortals.

was the writing done with a stencil seeing its all so the same and so perfect ... no can tell me please if anyone knows

The descriptions on that wall are the ones that young Pharaoh having his garage

Don't you think it's time to give back what was stolen and not have them in museums telling people what you think it represents or who builded it

They probably had one artist draw all of the vertical lines and another artist draw all of the horizontal lines.

The fact that the funerary furniture found in the tomb, is made of way too many items, than could be accommodated in the small houses of Deir El Medina, is definitely because many of the items would have been specifically dedicated to the use of the deceased in the after life, never actually put in his earthly house

scribes, how important they were during those times. becoming one was a lifelong thing. schooled in the earthly ways from a child to understanding using the elements to make many things possible. it was the early days of the kali yuga or the period of breaking solids and remaking them into solid structures in situ. some of them were the travelling scribes whose responsibility it was to travel far and wide to teach and to build or rebuild many types of structures.

@shaniell.mathur6372

11 ай бұрын

Ancient scribes of India are called - kayastha. Very similar history to the scribes of ancient Egypt

Amazing that so many resources were committed to the afterlife of the elite. Makes you wonder what life was like for the average person @ the time.

Man look at all that Black Ancient Egypt Art.

@GORO911

2 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@listenup2882

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, they were Black so no surprise there.

@GORO911

2 жыл бұрын

@@listenup2882 Only their slaves were black. Egyptians themselves weren't. 🙂

@IndigoChyld

2 жыл бұрын

@@GORO911 who were their slaves other Africans?

@GORO911

2 жыл бұрын

@@IndigoChyld Their slaves were the black Africans.

5:58 & 10:21 can anyone give me the reason why the woman's last name is in capital letters, i believe only the first letter should be in caps.

THOSE ARE THE STONEBOOKS OF ENKI OR ENOCH

The pre dynastic and dynastic Egyptians came upon the wonders left behind by a precious. They never understood or were able to replicate that technology for obvious.ons. But they did adapt and build on what they found advanced technological civilisation

@davidleomorley889

2 жыл бұрын

You're acting just like a child who still believes in Santa Claus.

Good documentary. The origin is probably European channel Arte. I am saying this because of the presence of non English speaking Egyptologists. Instead of talking over them, why not simply offer subtitles? Having two soundtracks on top of each other confuses the audience. Especially when said audience has some knowledge of the language that is being spoken over

@makimako_234

2 жыл бұрын

I hate when they do that in documentaries, it’s so confusing. Especially since I speak French and English 😞

I wish I could watch documentaries on Ancient Egypt with having to listen to intrusive music.

Gr8est civ in the cosmos

That’s funny that they tried to make Imhotep white lol they were blue black

@honeyhush3928

Жыл бұрын

@APEP HATEM bro Egypt is in AFRICA there are black ppl there

@menzowenzo1894

Жыл бұрын

@APEP HATEM Where did you get this date of 30000 years, care to share? When you arrived here you found no one and nothing here right🤣? By the way did you also go to Nubia/Sudan, where Egyptian culture and civilisation began, to copy it and take it back to Egypt? Why is Egyptian style art and architecture not found wherever you came from before invading if you are responsible for it as you are insinuating? You are right about one thing, you Arab invaders are not us Africans. This is Africa and all ancient art, culture and civilisation found here was built and inspired by Africans, the term sub-saharan doesn’t change that.

@ScorpioMojo

Жыл бұрын

@APEP HATEM - culture vulture, get a life. Arab people envy black American history and style too. We survive and thrive in the belly of the beast, not submit and conform like wannabes 😌

@animegirls3219

Жыл бұрын

@APEP HATEM fyi DNA has proven ancient Egyptian were black and most modern day Egyptians are a mixture of Greek, Roman, and Coptic Egyptians. Egypt was invaded and ruled by these particular nations for centuries. Egypt is in Africa so all because you are mixed does take away the realities of the original indigenous populations of Egypt. Similar to America which people think of as white, they glaze over they invaded America it doesn't make them native Americans.

@joepoke1852

Жыл бұрын

@APEP HATEM YOU'RE RIGHT! YOU WERE, and STILL ARE INVADERS💡

Have you ever seen a pro. spray paint crew .... They have outliners... Fillers and detailers ....and can bust huge works in mins ....need less to say artist naturally group up to make art ... Not to imagine they didn't do the same thing Way back when when there's wasn't tvs and this jazz we have now days ... But different mediums...