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Happens on quite a few of them, sprinkled throughout his various channels. Editing is a lengthy and taxing process and sometimes mistakes like this are easy to miss.
you couldve if the modern arab egyptians hadnt stripped them of thier white granite casing stones in the 60's to build the mosques of cairo. This wouldve never happened if the original black egyptians were still there
@@michaelr3583The casing stones were limestone and they are still in place near the tops of the pyramids. They were in their current state by the middle of the 19th century. Casing stones began being removed for other projects during the Rashidun Caliphate in 639-646.
8:37 Shows where the "Land of Punt" is, that's a date tree, specifically how date trees from Yemen look (wiki has it showing a myrrh tree for some reason, but they don't look anything like that. The date tree was also the emblem of Saudi Arabia and it looks identical). Ancient Yemen left plenty of ruins, including the world's oldest script, the Musnad (sinatic is graffiti but the same language) .
One thing with the huge pyramids and the accompanying temple complexes of the 4th dynasty is that you need a lot to build them. Khufu was still building his on the 28th year of his reign. No matter how much resources you had otherwise, you could never trust you would have a quarter of a century to finish your building program. So simple fact of time could partly explain the smaller pyramids of the 5th and the 6th dynasties. You needed something that could be finished in 10-15 years to have better chance of getting it finished.
While time was always a factor = so was cost and resources available at the time of the Pharaoh in question. The larger pyramids were built in times of plenty. You also need to consider what the video speaks to = the deification of the Pharaohs into Ra. You see in the 4th Dynasty the Pharaohs altering their names to include "Ra/Re" into them - much as later Pharaohs included "Amun" into theirs. So it appears the 5th Dynasty Pharaohs expended more effort promoting their cult status than they did for their tombs. As an aside. It appears Khufu died before his pyramid complex was completed - but his son Djedefre who followed him finished it for him. Khufu was believed to have reigned ~32 years per the "cattle counts" while fragments of his mortuary temple depict him performing the Sed festival. The Sed was performed to celebrate the 30th year of rule. One must also consider the age of ascension as well. It is possible that Khufu ascended to the throne at a younger age - meaning he might therefore look forward to a longer rule. The same could be said for Ramses II who ruled longer than any other. Pharaohs who rose to the throne at an older age might be more pressed to finish their tomb given this fact.
The Pyramid of Unas is spectacular on the inside. It truly is. The Pyramid Text looks like it was etched yesterday, and most amazing is the effect you get when the lights are turned off and a light is shone across the face of the texts. There are designs and artworks BEHIND the text that were designed only to be illuminated by certain light angles. Its a bit unfair to say Unas went out with a whimper when you see inside that pyramid!! No where else is script found within an actual pyramid. And geographically, the swapping between, Abu Sir and Saqqara is not that much of a mystery. Its not that far. None of the sites at that point in time had ever been officially abandoned. Giza, Abu Sir, Saqqara and Dahshur are all within visual range of each other. Its still impressive today to stand at the Red Pyramid (Dahshur) and gaze back north at all the pyramids (and lumps of what were pyramids not built so well!) that scatter the horizon. I imagine it would have been stunning in their ‘hey-days’. 😊
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I’d like to propose Gen. John Pershing. Head of the Expeditionary Forces during WWI. His military career tells the story of America’s imperialism, from commanding Buffalo Soldiers during the Span-Am War to hunting Pancho Villa amidst the Mexican Revolution. Surely a life worthy of Biographics.
For perspective let's put a 50m height (164ft) into a modern comparison. Basically a building of today is 10ft/3m per floor so a 50m/164ft pyramid is about 15/16 stories....basically. Those are generalities but you get the gist. 😎
Another unique aspect of Neferirkares pyramid was that it started out step pyramid which basically consists of multiple mastabas of decreasing size placed one on top of the other Another unique aspect of Neferirkares pyramid was that it started out step pyramid which basically consists of multiple mastabas of decreasing size placed one on top of the other Dejavu anyone?
Sorry, the Abusir papyri are no longer the oldest written documents in hieratic. The papyri finds at the Red Sea coast have changed all that. Then are mainly from the Khufu, and Khafre era so much older. See the book of prof. Tallet: the red sea scrolls. Reveals the stunning finds and results of translation.
Nathaniel Hawthorne. The magnificent American author , the man behind the Scarlet Letter and so many other brilliant pieces of work. Who was also born in Salem, Massachusetts, and had a family that was involved in the witch trials.
I love these videos. I've been a massive fan for years! So much so that I actually made my own channel (it focuses on History as well) thank you for the inspiration!
Have we gotten any videos on, say, Harry Houdini, or Jean-Eugene Houdin? (A magician Houdini borrowed his stage name from) or even the Maskelyne family?
A fan of ancient egypt (who isn't) Ive wondered if they had writing templates for the hieroglyphs or if they wrote them by hand every time? Seems like it would take a while to write all the pictures down.
When ancients made clay tablet with writing on them, they would use hand tools in soft clay and right out their language on the clay. Then they would let the clay dry out in the sun. I'm mostly sure they also used hand tools on the tablets and stone
Hearing Simon read all these Egyptian names as if they were English, and therefore getting every single one of them entirely wrong, is so on-brand for him.
Eli Cohen was one of the most effective and important spies in modern times. His story is utterly fascinating, and it is a tragedy that he was eventually caught, and executed. There were a few other spies from the same country that could arguably be considered his equal.
Ptolemaic tradition most certainly had reasons to highlight ruptures in the perceived dynastic lines by labeling them as dynasties. Many of them elude us. If Userkaf was a direct descendant of a 4th dynasty king, then why inaugurate a whole new dynasty starting with him?
Pyramids were a creation of the Old Kingdom with some later being built during the Middle Kingdom. The Old Kingdom being the first never anticipated the eventual collapse of those dynasties - thus they built above ground tombs which later became magnets for robbers. The later Middle Kingdom seeing the "lost glory" of the Old Kingdom Pharaohs tried to duplicate that. The Valley of the Kings however came during the later New Kingdom. Following the collapse of the Middle Kingdom northern Egypt was conquered by outsiders for a century = the Hyksos. Finally the Egyptians drove the Hyksos out leading to the New Kingdom. So New Kingdom Pharaohs seeing Old and Middle Kingdom tombs long looted + how their capital at Memphis in the north was captured by the Hyksos = moved the capital to Thebes further south and adopted hidden underground tombs as a measure of protection. The New Kingdom period lasted around 500 years and contained a lot of Pharaohs.
Hello Simon I have desired to meet you in person if possible since I have followed your channel back in my home country Nigeria. I am studying in the UK now, Newcastle to be precise and I'll like to know where you live. If the question is appropriate.
@@StoneInMySandal Yup. As mummies were typically wrapped up with valuables they were usually destroyed in the process of robbing them. Also the religious beliefs of the Egyptians were predicated upon the spirit (Ka) having a "vessel" to inhabit - hence why they mummified their bodies in the first place. So in their mind no body = and the spirit of the dead person was essentially "erased" from the afterlife. Later on they further believed that the Ka could inhabit - if not a body - then a statue or similar object bearing the name of the deceased. For them the "object" became the person. That is why so many statues saw their noses hacked off as the Egyptians believed doing so prevented the spirit of the person from inhabiting the object as they "could not breathe". So mummies - especially later mummies - were often coated with resins which hardened with time. So the only way to unwrap the mummy was often to tear it apart. Tut's mummy was damaged when Carter literally had to rip off his gold burial mask as his inner coffin was full of hardened resins which had simply been poured over his mummy. Sometimes they simply set them on fire to collect any melted gold and valuables afterwards. There was recently a doco on excavations in the West Valley of the Valley of the Kings. Looking for hidden tombs Egyptologists uncovered a large scorched area = and nearby was part of a mummy's leg. So a tomb had been robbed and the mummy torn apart and burned looking for valuables. Facts. 🤔
Don't you think it all sounds like the Egyptians build these pyramids the someone came along and showed them how to build the 3 mega pyramids, and after they was gone rhey couldn't do it again lol..
Atatürk was the spiritual ancestor of Jonas Savimbi: Both were men of letters and peace who reluctantly put down their pens so that they might pick up the sword.
What is it with Old Kingdom Egypt? I mean, exactly how many temples to a particular god do you need? Is there some kind of congenital "I MUST build temples and pyramids" OCD going here? It's a bit like successive Uk governments feeling compelled to build a new House of Parliament after every election. A lot of conspiracy theorists seem to think the Ancient Egyptians had some secret store of wisdom... but really, spending your 20-year reign piling one stone block on top of another is ever so slightly weird.
It took 200 years to build the cathedral of Notre Dame. The average construction time for a European cathedral was 260 years. Spending 20 years stacking blocks is really a drop in the bucket.
All of this, yet the Egyptians themselves wrote that they had "inherited" their society... So they hijacked some big buildings, threw in a corpse and some valuables, and maybe added some paint and some fresh scratches into the walls. They didn't build the Great Pyramids, nor were they intended to be used as tombs. This was just a quite typical example of people being...people.
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Simon we need DTU March 8 1994 Michigan Please make it happen
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Please do Booker T. Washington next
1:10 - Chapter 1 - The beginning, userkaf
5:35 - Mid roll ads
6:40 - Chapter 2 - The peak, sahure & neferirkare
11:25 - Chapter 3 - The 3 littles pigs, shepseskare, neferefre & niuserre
15:40 - Chapter 4 - The renegades, menkauhor, djekare & unas
christmas came early. i can’t get enough of the Egyptian and roman bios.
9:52 am I the only one who hears the exact same sentence twice?
Definitely there twice. I came to comment similar.
Happens on quite a few of them, sprinkled throughout his various channels. Editing is a lengthy and taxing process and sometimes mistakes like this are easy to miss.
In terms of sheer mystery, Ancient Egypt will always fascinate me. Even more so, that we are STILL learning about them thousands of years later!
Always love Egyptian videos. Wouldn't mind a video of every dynasty.
I know there’s a 4th dynasty video and I see a 1st below
He's done the first 5 so far
I love when we get these Bronze Age videos from Simon's channels.
But not the second dynasty
@@simonburrell7041 there is almost no information about it. That is probably the reason why.
The way he pronounces their African names like they're European ones makes this video so entertaining.
God, I wish I could have seen the Great Pyramids in their pristine time.
you couldve if the modern arab egyptians hadnt stripped them of thier white granite casing stones in the 60's to build the mosques of cairo.
This wouldve never happened if the original black egyptians were still there
@@michaelr3583The casing stones were limestone and they are still in place near the tops of the pyramids.
They were in their current state by the middle of the 19th century. Casing stones began being removed for other projects during the Rashidun Caliphate in 639-646.
@@StoneInMySandal thank you for correcting me
Let’s rebuild them lol 😂
I appreciate all the work Simon and his team put into these videos. Thank you guys
8:37 Shows where the "Land of Punt" is, that's a date tree, specifically how date trees from Yemen look (wiki has it showing a myrrh tree for some reason, but they don't look anything like that. The date tree was also the emblem of Saudi Arabia and it looks identical).
Ancient Yemen left plenty of ruins, including the world's oldest script, the Musnad (sinatic is graffiti but the same language) .
I read this, with the repeat sentence, right when Simon repeated himself about the step pyramid and for half a second I thought I was stroking out...
Hooray for the Sun God
He sure is a fun God
RA RA RA
Read "hooray" as "horny" and was a tad concerned for a second. Lol
1:09 Userkaf
6:38 Sahure
8:41Neferirkare
11:23 Shepseskare & Neferefre
13:21 *Nyuserre*
15:36 Menkauhor
16:41 *Djedkare* (longest reign in the dynasty)
18:49 Unas
Excellent video again. Great writing Radu. Cheers from Tennessee
This seems interesting! You guys should put all your ancient egyptian stuff in a playlist!
You can make it, just make it public and others can see it. 😊
I just might! xD They have a few channels tho, I wonder if they have some ancient egypt stuff there as well.
@@leovicctanteo4537 it’s easy, and you can modify as needed. Hint: It’s easier through a pc or on a tablet with the web interface. 👍🏽😎
Learned far more from SW's videos than all thos years of history lessons at school
Thank you for the video
Oh Ra, devour, those who dare open my grave! 🤘
One thing with the huge pyramids and the accompanying temple complexes of the 4th dynasty is that you need a lot to build them. Khufu was still building his on the 28th year of his reign. No matter how much resources you had otherwise, you could never trust you would have a quarter of a century to finish your building program. So simple fact of time could partly explain the smaller pyramids of the 5th and the 6th dynasties. You needed something that could be finished in 10-15 years to have better chance of getting it finished.
While time was always a factor = so was cost and resources available at the time of the Pharaoh in question. The larger pyramids were built in times of plenty. You also need to consider what the video speaks to = the deification of the Pharaohs into Ra. You see in the 4th Dynasty the Pharaohs altering their names to include "Ra/Re" into them - much as later Pharaohs included "Amun" into theirs. So it appears the 5th Dynasty Pharaohs expended more effort promoting their cult status than they did for their tombs.
As an aside. It appears Khufu died before his pyramid complex was completed - but his son Djedefre who followed him finished it for him. Khufu was believed to have reigned ~32 years per the "cattle counts" while fragments of his mortuary temple depict him performing the Sed festival. The Sed was performed to celebrate the 30th year of rule.
One must also consider the age of ascension as well. It is possible that Khufu ascended to the throne at a younger age - meaning he might therefore look forward to a longer rule. The same could be said for Ramses II who ruled longer than any other. Pharaohs who rose to the throne at an older age might be more pressed to finish their tomb given this fact.
Your videos are amazing. It’s a daily watch at work for me. Leaning and loving it. Keep the historical stuff coming 🤘
The Pyramid of Unas is spectacular on the inside. It truly is. The Pyramid Text looks like it was etched yesterday, and most amazing is the effect you get when the lights are turned off and a light is shone across the face of the texts. There are designs and artworks BEHIND the text that were designed only to be illuminated by certain light angles. Its a bit unfair to say Unas went out with a whimper when you see inside that pyramid!! No where else is script found within an actual pyramid.
And geographically, the swapping between, Abu Sir and Saqqara is not that much of a mystery. Its not that far. None of the sites at that point in time had ever been officially abandoned. Giza, Abu Sir, Saqqara and Dahshur are all within visual range of each other. Its still impressive today to stand at the Red Pyramid (Dahshur) and gaze back north at all the pyramids (and lumps of what were pyramids not built so well!) that scatter the horizon. I imagine it would have been stunning in their ‘hey-days’. 😊
Oh excellent the Sun temples are very interesting I'm glad your taking some time to explore them
Suggestions: Jaques Cousteau. Dick Clark. Richard Pryor. Walter Kronkite. Jacqueline Onassis. Redd Foxx.
I would've suggested Henry Kissinger, but, the old boy is still alive and kicking.
The best soap opera in history - The Pharaos (season 5)
I’d like to propose Gen. John Pershing. Head of the Expeditionary Forces during WWI. His military career tells the story of America’s imperialism, from commanding Buffalo Soldiers during the Span-Am War to hunting Pancho Villa amidst the Mexican Revolution. Surely a life worthy of Biographics.
This guy never gives up.
@@kbtaylor_ Yep, you got that right. Same thing every time word for word.
There’s no such thing as American imperialism. You seem a bit odd
My granddad served with him in the Colored Corp. 💙💙💙
I really love these ancient Egypt dynasty videos. I hope you’ll keep doing them
HOORAY!!! I've been waiting for the Fifth Dynasty!!
I love that you use their commissioned depictions when referencing them
nice video! brings me back to my memories from that time!
Ancient civilizations had incredible knowledge and wisdom.
For perspective let's put a 50m height (164ft) into a modern comparison. Basically a building of today is 10ft/3m per floor so a 50m/164ft pyramid is about 15/16 stories....basically. Those are generalities but you get the gist. 😎
Fascinating! We would know more about Punt if archaeologists gave a 10th as much about excavating ethiopia somalia and kenya the way they do egypt
I rode a white horse out to the abu sir pyramids one day from the pyramids at giza. took seven hours there and back. boy I was sore the next day!
Very interesting video! Did you skip the 2nd Dynasty or did I miss that video? Excellent job, as usual, Simon and team! 😊💯👏🏻
Very informative.
I just want to see Kratos take on the Ra cult in ancient Egypt. Wrestling the Sphinx into submission and petrifying it lol
Hed get his but kicked lol
Interesting video
Repeat lines around 9:40
You helped me today
Anyone else hearing Karen from Will and Grace saying Mustaba in an attempt to flirt with a new person every time Simon has to say it?
Another unique aspect of Neferirkares pyramid was that it started out step pyramid which basically consists of multiple mastabas of decreasing size placed one on top of the other
Another unique aspect of Neferirkares pyramid was that it started out step pyramid which basically consists of multiple mastabas of decreasing size placed one on top of the other
Dejavu anyone?
Hi, love your work - noticed an editing error around the 10 min mark. I see it between 9:45 and 10:05, it seems like 2 takes of the same dialgue.
Thanks.
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I know a Sun God, he is a Fun God, Ra Ra Ra!
Sorry, the Abusir papyri are no longer the oldest written documents in hieratic. The papyri finds at the Red Sea coast have changed all that. Then are mainly from the Khufu, and Khafre era so much older. See the book of prof. Tallet: the red sea scrolls. Reveals the stunning finds and results of translation.
Nathaniel Hawthorne. The magnificent American author , the man behind the Scarlet Letter and so many other brilliant pieces of work. Who was also born in Salem, Massachusetts, and had a family that was involved in the witch trials.
Editing mistake 10:00
3:10 “did any of this” what happened to your voice?
I really would love if Shepsekare's first name was William
These Pharoahs were clearly trying to compensate for something with all these grand buildings.
Well yeah. Mortality. The idea they would be forgotten like their ancestors was more than they could handle.
They believed the lie! satan told them they were gods and they could take all of their junk with them!
There's a song by the metal band Nile- Unas Slayer of the Gods.
I love these videos. I've been a massive fan for years! So much so that I actually made my own channel (it focuses on History as well) thank you for the inspiration!
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@@paulpaintshop103 too kind!
I swear every video i watch from simon it gets louder every time
Can you please do William Jennings Bryan
“The Great Commoner”?
Have we gotten any videos on, say, Harry Houdini, or Jean-Eugene Houdin? (A magician Houdini borrowed his stage name from) or even the Maskelyne family?
Pharaoh: Ahhh...thanks for the coffee. ...blegh! x_x
A fan of ancient egypt (who isn't) Ive wondered if they had writing templates for the hieroglyphs or if they wrote them by hand every time? Seems like it would take a while to write all the pictures down.
When ancients made clay tablet with writing on them, they would use hand tools in soft clay and right out their language on the clay. Then they would let the clay dry out in the sun. I'm mostly sure they also used hand tools on the tablets and stone
4:33 that's not the great pyramid
Where's the video for the Second Dynasty?
Gaijin drop that money on Simon with all those WarThunder and Enlisted sponsorships :D
Hearing Simon read all these Egyptian names as if they were English, and therefore getting every single one of them entirely wrong, is so on-brand for him.
Did you miss the fact he is English?
@@StefanMedici Are the English congenitally incapable of pronouncing foreign languages correctly?
Wow very good observation very enlightening
How else are we English speakers supposed to learn about this history without some sort of English translation ?
@@trevorsthegreatest5642 He didn't translate anything. He just mispronounced it.
Good Day Whistlerverse peeps!
Excellent outfit in the beginning of the vid
Please do Eli Cohen next, it would be a great video.
Eli Cohen was one of the most effective and important spies in modern times. His story is utterly fascinating, and it is a tragedy that he was eventually caught, and executed.
There were a few other spies from the same country that could arguably be considered his equal.
Wow the voice of presenter is absolute stunning
Minutes 9 through 10 is just a repeat of what was already said
Ptolemaic tradition most certainly had reasons to highlight ruptures in the perceived dynastic lines by labeling them as dynasties. Many of them elude us. If Userkaf was a direct descendant of a 4th dynasty king, then why inaugurate a whole new dynasty starting with him?
This was so cool. I watch and read everything I can on Egypt's golden age. You managed to come up with ones I didn't know about. :)
Make an episode about Vicente Guerrero! He abolished slavery in Mexico.
Can you skip forward a bit and do the 25th dynasty soon please
PLEASE do the 19th dynasty!!
Praise Sahura
It wasn’t built for his final resting place
George H. Thomas, The Greatest Civil War General You've Probably Never Heard Of
New channel: PharaoGraphics
Wow...the voice of pre
Pharaoh/Goa'uld.
What are you doing step pyramid?
It kinda sounds like Neferirkare cared a little too much if you ask me… 🤷🏻♂️
Thanks for telling us the "mastaba" thing twice , Fact Boy🙂
Which pharaohs were buried in which pyramids? Why were so many buried in the “valley of the kings” instead of in pyramids?
Pyramids were a creation of the Old Kingdom with some later being built during the Middle Kingdom. The Old Kingdom being the first never anticipated the eventual collapse of those dynasties - thus they built above ground tombs which later became magnets for robbers. The later Middle Kingdom seeing the "lost glory" of the Old Kingdom Pharaohs tried to duplicate that.
The Valley of the Kings however came during the later New Kingdom. Following the collapse of the Middle Kingdom northern Egypt was conquered by outsiders for a century = the Hyksos. Finally the Egyptians drove the Hyksos out leading to the New Kingdom. So New Kingdom Pharaohs seeing Old and Middle Kingdom tombs long looted + how their capital at Memphis in the north was captured by the Hyksos = moved the capital to Thebes further south and adopted hidden underground tombs as a measure of protection. The New Kingdom period lasted around 500 years and contained a lot of Pharaohs.
Do The Chad Friends Gilgamesh and Endiku...
Hello Simon
I have desired to meet you in person if possible since I have followed your channel back in my home country Nigeria. I am studying in the UK now, Newcastle to be precise and I'll like to know where you live. If the question is appropriate.
Prague
You do know that a mummy has never been found in a pyramid, facts.
You do know those were the first tombs robbed and mummies have been ground up and used in magical medicine since they were first discovered. Facts.
@@StoneInMySandal Yup. As mummies were typically wrapped up with valuables they were usually destroyed in the process of robbing them. Also the religious beliefs of the Egyptians were predicated upon the spirit (Ka) having a "vessel" to inhabit - hence why they mummified their bodies in the first place. So in their mind no body = and the spirit of the dead person was essentially "erased" from the afterlife.
Later on they further believed that the Ka could inhabit - if not a body - then a statue or similar object bearing the name of the deceased. For them the "object" became the person. That is why so many statues saw their noses hacked off as the Egyptians believed doing so prevented the spirit of the person from inhabiting the object as they "could not breathe".
So mummies - especially later mummies - were often coated with resins which hardened with time. So the only way to unwrap the mummy was often to tear it apart. Tut's mummy was damaged when Carter literally had to rip off his gold burial mask as his inner coffin was full of hardened resins which had simply been poured over his mummy. Sometimes they simply set them on fire to collect any melted gold and valuables afterwards. There was recently a doco on excavations in the West Valley of the Valley of the Kings. Looking for hidden tombs Egyptologists uncovered a large scorched area = and nearby was part of a mummy's leg. So a tomb had been robbed and the mummy torn apart and burned looking for valuables. Facts. 🤔
from all the ideas humans have come up with for "gods" the sun is definetly one of the best to go for.....giver of life & all that!
Joseph Goldberger
shepseskare--shakespeare? :)
Man. So much focus on where to stick you when you die.
There's only one god, he's the sun god...Ra Ra Ra
Am I tripping or did he really skip the 2nd dynasty...
Don't you think it all sounds like the Egyptians build these pyramids the someone came along and showed them how to build the 3 mega pyramids, and after they was gone rhey couldn't do it again lol..
Unas... Annus.....???O
I studied Egyptology in grad school
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk: founder of modern day Turkey 🇹🇷
He's very badly burned.
Atatürk was the spiritual ancestor of Jonas Savimbi: Both were men of letters and peace who reluctantly put down their pens so that they might pick up the sword.
Please do it. He's a very interesting character, almost like a Turkish George Washington.
🦃 gobble gobble
Wrong!
day 16 of asking for a video on Dostoievski
Muhammad Ali Jinnah bio please
What is it with Old Kingdom Egypt? I mean, exactly how many temples to a particular god do you need? Is there some kind of congenital "I MUST build temples and pyramids" OCD going here? It's a bit like successive Uk governments feeling compelled to build a new House of Parliament after every election. A lot of conspiracy theorists seem to think the Ancient Egyptians had some secret store of wisdom... but really, spending your 20-year reign piling one stone block on top of another is ever so slightly weird.
Make work projects
Work for the people keep the peasants busy lol
It took 200 years to build the cathedral of Notre Dame. The average construction time for a European cathedral was 260 years.
Spending 20 years stacking blocks is really a drop in the bucket.
Oooh… how about doing a script on The Garden of Aten. (Eden / Akhenaten)
All of this, yet the Egyptians themselves wrote that they had "inherited" their society...
So they hijacked some big buildings, threw in a corpse and some valuables, and maybe added some paint and some fresh scratches into the walls. They didn't build the Great Pyramids, nor were they intended to be used as tombs. This was just a quite typical example of people being...people.
To paraphrase Luke Skywalker: Wow, everything you just said, is wrong.
One Piece brought me here
Would you please make an episode about Jesus Christ ?