Daily Life in Egypt: Ancient and Modern, 1925 | From the Vaults

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  • Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
  • Modern Egypt is a country of nearly one hundred million people, who live in densely populated cities like Cairo as well as towns and villages. A century ago, when this film was made, the population was much smaller, and to Western visitors the way of life along the Nile River appeared to resemble that of Pharaonic Egypt. Certain agricultural practices, and some festival traditions, seemed connected to the ancient past, echoing scenes decorating tombs from 3,500 years before. Among the first films made by The Met, “Daily Life in Egypt” features stunningly clear footage taken by the photographer Harry Burton and Albert M. Lythgoe, founding curator of the Museum’s Department of Egyptian Art.
    As part of The Met’s 150th anniversary in 2020, each month we will release three to four films from the Museum’s extensive moving-image archive, which comprises over 1,500 films, both made and collected by the Museum, from the 1920s onward. This includes rarely seen artist profiles and documentaries, as well as process films about art-making techniques and behind-the-scenes footage of the Museum.
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Комментарии • 170

  • @nocultist7050
    @nocultist7050 2 года назад +24

    This is the coolest history lesson I saw in my life.

  • @ELHADI4040
    @ELHADI4040 Год назад +10

    Greetings from Egypt and thanks for this great documentation.

  • @morocentertainment3188
    @morocentertainment3188 Год назад +18

    Very truth telling video

    • @worldtraveler3493
      @worldtraveler3493 Месяц назад +1

      This video cannot be farther from the truth. This is life of people in simple villages, but life in Cairo, Alexandria or any of Egypt's big cities was very different back then and was comparable or even better than life in any Western city like New York, London, or Paris. Seems like you've never traveled there to say a comment like this.

  • @الفضاء-ض8غ
    @الفضاء-ض8غ Год назад +21

    Proud to be Egyptian 🇪🇬

  • @nshwhdushdb397
    @nshwhdushdb397 4 года назад +15

    Such a precious document

  • @Manar.aldeeb
    @Manar.aldeeb 3 года назад +35

    Thank you for documenting how modern egyptians are keeping the customs of their ancestors in every aspect of their lives.

    • @zion5321
      @zion5321 Год назад +14

      They are not related

    • @zion5321
      @zion5321 Год назад +9

      @@redmiddlemist122 yes but current egyptians are not related to ancient

    • @yaminoonna3218
      @yaminoonna3218 Год назад +2

      ​@@zion5321 we are

    • @yaminoonna3218
      @yaminoonna3218 Год назад +2

      ​@@zion5321 we are

    • @kingmono
      @kingmono Год назад +9

      The nubians are.

  • @islamsaadoun2018
    @islamsaadoun2018 3 года назад +10

    Love this documentary so much ❤️🇪🇬

  • @waynesworldcoinsaustralia2640
    @waynesworldcoinsaustralia2640 4 года назад +12

    Best thing I've seen all year amazing wish I wasn't so tired home from cricket glad I'm not having to do all that work at the moment awesome

  • @koriecull
    @koriecull 9 месяцев назад +16

    They will say the camera lens made the art and people seem darker than they appear...

  • @barbaradiederich3709
    @barbaradiederich3709 3 года назад +6

    So very interesting. I was disappointed when it ended.

  • @apttmhyah6344
    @apttmhyah6344 Год назад +28

    Wonder what else they're hiding in those so-called vaults 🤔🤔🤔🙏🏾

  • @jessepitt
    @jessepitt 4 года назад +11

    Very cool!

  • @selfreal42130
    @selfreal42130 Год назад +55

    They are alot darker than the occupants today

    • @kingmono
      @kingmono Год назад +21

      The first half of the video is Nubians, hence the cultural connection to ancient Egypt. The latter half is Cairo, hence no cultural link to Ancient Egypt.

    • @zakmitchell1935
      @zakmitchell1935 Год назад +36

      @@kingmono They're not Nubians, but the original inhabitants before they were forced down to the Aswan region.

    • @aymnswlm9089
      @aymnswlm9089 10 месяцев назад

      In whole Egyptian History nothing like that Ever Happened ​@@zakmitchell1935

    • @eho6380
      @eho6380 9 месяцев назад +4

      The people today there look exactly the same, what is your point

    • @jeffreyrediel
      @jeffreyrediel 9 месяцев назад +10

      @@eho6380No they don’t look exactly same

  • @lois3356
    @lois3356 3 года назад +9

    Incredible documentary! watched it after reading Eça de Queiroz book about his travel to Egypt in 1869 to visit the Suez canal inauguration. He describes everything you see in this documentary, but in his novelistic style, worth reading and being transported to old times.

  • @cdw3088
    @cdw3088 Год назад +74

    It’s a shame how the native people are now displaced and looked down upon.

    • @aymnswlm9089
      @aymnswlm9089 10 месяцев назад +2

      They are just Egyptian nubians
      Not actual Egyptian
      Nubia Is divided between egypt and sudan

    • @skineyemin4276
      @skineyemin4276 9 месяцев назад +29

      @@aymnswlm9089 They are Egyptians and always were, and you're just lying to yourself.

    • @darenlighty5817
      @darenlighty5817 8 месяцев назад +3

      These people are imposters

    • @alpharius_nox
      @alpharius_nox 7 месяцев назад +6

      @@aymnswlm9089 They do not consider themselves Nubians, it is only the people in Cairo that call them that, and Europeans.

    • @aymnswlm9089
      @aymnswlm9089 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@alpharius_nox no they do and they have their own language

  • @kingmono
    @kingmono Год назад +55

    The first half of documentary where the culture is practised shows nubian Egyptians, the latter half that does not show ancient culture is Cairo Egyptians

    • @الفضاء-ض8غ
      @الفضاء-ض8غ Год назад +2

      Shut up, what a shame. They are Egyptians in every inch of Egypt. You are fake and obsessed with Egypt

    • @ahmedelrefaey6759
      @ahmedelrefaey6759 8 месяцев назад +2

      No

    • @darenlighty5817
      @darenlighty5817 8 месяцев назад +2

      Definitely not the same people

    • @AT-gu8by
      @AT-gu8by 8 месяцев назад

      @@ahmedelrefaey6759 ruclips.net/video/_FbDfMI1hjI/видео.html

    • @AT-gu8by
      @AT-gu8by 8 месяцев назад

      @@ahmedelrefaey6759 ruclips.net/user/shortsD1eoeR552WA

  • @anida61
    @anida61 9 месяцев назад

    LOVE IT! Thanks for sharing, very cool

  • @RodCornholio
    @RodCornholio Год назад +3

    Outstanding.

  • @abdelazizrohim8146
    @abdelazizrohim8146 Год назад +2

    شكرا لك على هذا الفديوا التحفة دا

  • @malattedrose
    @malattedrose Год назад +47

    wow Dark skin People.

    • @djeio
      @djeio 9 месяцев назад +1

      aficans

    • @amnamahmoud4545
      @amnamahmoud4545 5 месяцев назад +2

      Just like today! Beautiful Brown Skin people 🤎

    • @gamalnassertv
      @gamalnassertv 4 месяца назад +1

      Egyptians who are rural are still dark

  • @mearussell5829
    @mearussell5829 4 года назад +5

    Great film

  • @MSPilotCrexote
    @MSPilotCrexote Год назад +25

    Look at all the Africans. Love this

  • @khadeja56
    @khadeja56 Год назад +11

    يالله جميل اوي ياريت لو نرجع لأيام زمان للأيام دي

  • @dennisjohnson6371
    @dennisjohnson6371 11 месяцев назад +18

    The true Egyptians;

    • @darenlighty5817
      @darenlighty5817 8 месяцев назад

      Notice the difference between them and the real Egyptians much darker

    • @JosephEku
      @JosephEku 7 месяцев назад

      Thankfully, we know the current occupiers are invaders

  • @paleesemendy7497
    @paleesemendy7497 9 месяцев назад +3

    My grandfather house used the same farming mechanism decades ago.

  • @curtis-dj5bp
    @curtis-dj5bp Год назад +8

    Well well well

  • @arrrdev5267
    @arrrdev5267 3 года назад +1

    Hello, I wanted to know if it is possible to use some extracts of about twenty seconds in total from the report "Daily Life in Egypt: Ancient and Modern, 1925" from your RUclips channel on the montage of my next youtube video on the Egypt.I am teacher and I ignore your policy on your video productions. cordially

  • @sweetwillow
    @sweetwillow 2 года назад +7

    10:34 is that an ancient statue in the back? 😳

    • @hussam68
      @hussam68 Год назад +1

      Colossi of Memnon

    • @Mr.Panther2320
      @Mr.Panther2320 8 месяцев назад

      ​@fraonour? Are you Arabic?

  • @beabia1555
    @beabia1555 2 года назад +2

    Time mark 10:41. What kind of statue is that on the left?

    • @mrmr80doba
      @mrmr80doba 2 года назад +2

      Memnons.. It's twins... At past it was the gateway of valley of the kings

    • @dennisjohnson6371
      @dennisjohnson6371 11 месяцев назад

      Josser ?

    • @Andre-808-k1v
      @Andre-808-k1v 8 месяцев назад

      @@dennisjohnson6371 Amenhotep III

  • @anwion
    @anwion 5 месяцев назад

    Does anyone know the link to the Divinci virtuvian man of this same narrator?

  • @atenmohammed
    @atenmohammed Год назад +4

    music choice is bad but great documentary thank you

    • @AT-gu8by
      @AT-gu8by Год назад

      This is the style of music for silent documented film in the 1920s and the original soundtrack.

    • @atenmohammed
      @atenmohammed Год назад +3

      @@AT-gu8by it westernizes Egypt. Very orientalist perspective. Playing Egyptian music from the time would be more apt.

    • @Ziad3195
      @Ziad3195 4 месяца назад

      ​@@atenmohammedbetter than literally playing orientalist music. Like walking up and down the same one scale that sounds "exotic" to them and is playable on Western instruments.

    • @atenmohammed
      @atenmohammed 4 месяца назад

      @@Ziad3195 how would playing authentic music from the region be orientalist? It's a sign of respect

  • @ATAVMJPRO
    @ATAVMJPRO 7 месяцев назад

    It seems everything is done by hand - fully stainable?

  • @Ok23432-x
    @Ok23432-x 2 года назад +2

    Unfortunately in Afghanistan in 2022, we use the same old ancient method until now..

  • @nnsllvn2
    @nnsllvn2 3 года назад

    "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn" sounds familiar.

  • @beatriceseymour7914
    @beatriceseymour7914 7 месяцев назад +3

    Where are the white Egyptians?

  • @cchoice4919
    @cchoice4919 2 года назад +30

    Obviously the Egyptians there now look nothing like the ones of old!!…. Proof on film!! FEELINGS WILL BE HURT!!

    • @ahmedwasfy3639
      @ahmedwasfy3639 2 года назад +14

      I look like the people in the video 🤷🏽‍♂️

    • @BronzeSista
      @BronzeSista 2 года назад +2

      @@ahmedwasfy3639 is your skin brown?

    • @ahmedwasfy3639
      @ahmedwasfy3639 2 года назад +8

      @@BronzeSista yes

    • @samyebeid4534
      @samyebeid4534 2 года назад +8

      You see what you want to believe.

    • @shimaatahoon8692
      @shimaatahoon8692 2 года назад +7

      @@samyebeid4534 true, why does she care about skin

  • @eyeopenproductions1559
    @eyeopenproductions1559 Год назад +1

    I know it’s showing everyday life, but not one shot of the Pyramids or Sphinx? 🧐🤔

  • @youtuberinamsterdam
    @youtuberinamsterdam 2 года назад +2

    3:50

  • @thefilmtube659
    @thefilmtube659 4 года назад +3

    🔥

  • @بهايموحميرقردوغانابوشخة

    🇪🇬❤

  • @altdoom5205
    @altdoom5205 Год назад +9

    Hopefully this settles the revisionist arguments.

  • @architecttravelandtourisma4523
    @architecttravelandtourisma4523 Год назад +2

    You can see Many of them wearing ottoman Fez hat

  • @AT-gu8by
    @AT-gu8by 10 месяцев назад +1

    Genesis 10:6 tells you who they were and still are.

  • @EJAXK13
    @EJAXK13 Год назад +3

    Let’s watch this again in 2025.

  • @darenlighty5817
    @darenlighty5817 8 месяцев назад +2

    These people are from the ottoman empire placed there by eurpope

  • @bunnyarora6481
    @bunnyarora6481 11 месяцев назад

    That time tutankhamun tresure found 1922

  • @yesbutactuallyno8305
    @yesbutactuallyno8305 11 месяцев назад

    So when we see pictures of flying stuff in Egypt, does that mean they had the technology for aviation?? According to this logic they would have 😎😎

  • @ShaheenSKasim
    @ShaheenSKasim 9 месяцев назад +4

    Local Egyptians were originally dark complexion ppl until when Israelis who were lighter skin tone entered the country for shelter during Prophet Yusuf's time [Joseph]. And they became slaves to Egyptians for 400 years until Prophet Musa [Moses] rescued them. Egyptians got mixed with Israelis in those 400 years. All fair complexion Egyptians you see today are not pure!

    • @AT-gu8by
      @AT-gu8by 8 месяцев назад +1

      Isrealites were a similar dark complexion, Israelis ( modern day) are not Israelites.

    • @Ziad3195
      @Ziad3195 4 месяца назад +1

      You have zero idea what you are talking about. Please watch videos of DNA tests of contemporary olive-skinned Egyptians. Everything you have said is wrong.

  • @LukeJackson-uo4zx
    @LukeJackson-uo4zx 9 месяцев назад +2

    Free Egypt

  • @HeatherRo9219
    @HeatherRo9219 11 месяцев назад +4

    I'm confused. Why do they look so dark skinned?

    • @EbsSeven
      @EbsSeven 11 месяцев назад +15

      Why are you confused, the indigenous people of the land were dark skinned.

    • @aymnswlm9089
      @aymnswlm9089 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@EbsSevenSouth Egyptians (Aswan and nuba) are Dark Skinned

    • @calm123
      @calm123 9 месяцев назад +1

      Cuz the Ancient Pharaonic people were Dark skin people, how deluded can you be?

    • @HeatherRo9219
      @HeatherRo9219 9 месяцев назад +10

      @@EbsSeven I've never seen that before. How was I supposed to know this?
      Every time I see Egyptians they're always looking like Arabian people. This is the first time I've ever seen anything associated with Egypt, look like this.
      I guess Afrocentrics aren't photoshopping after all.

    • @mmi5833
      @mmi5833 9 месяцев назад +3

      This NOT a Hollywood Movie..The Kings of Egypt...Most of the actors were Scottish, Irish or English...😂😂😂

  • @Mohawkgurrrl50
    @Mohawkgurrrl50 Месяц назад

    Obviously NUBIANS were & will always be the Indigenous Egyptians

  • @Kemet3.0
    @Kemet3.0 9 месяцев назад +1

    Nope, that was a blend. I've seen the authentic images. I understand the mechanics behind them.
    It's similar to what happens in museums, where they blend invaders with genuine Pharaohs to create confusion, without explicitly stating their origins from the Libyan or Greco-Roman era.
    Take a look at Egypt in the 1890s and early 1900s.
    ruclips.net/video/_FbDfMI1hjI/видео.htmlsi=cZxoWZTMy2SE4bvU

    • @AT-gu8by
      @AT-gu8by 7 месяцев назад

      Thanks for posting the link, Ireally enjoyed the video!

  • @apttmhyah6344
    @apttmhyah6344 Год назад +3

    😮 wow just mud and straw big bricks amazing, so that's what the Israelites what being beaten for😢😢😢

    • @salj.5459
      @salj.5459 Год назад +4

      Fool

    • @Ziad3195
      @Ziad3195 4 месяца назад

      Dumbest comment award.

  • @Brancoladage-zk3xr
    @Brancoladage-zk3xr 4 месяца назад +2

    Aboriginals