Because overturning thousands of years of religious tradition while pissing off most of the high ranking members of my government system sounds like a great idea -Akhenaten
What a dumb comment, you don't know anything about Akhenaten. So called 'sun worship' is probably older than the many local Gods people had. Local Gods are often reflections the people itself and part of a larger cosmic order. The Sun, represents all life. Most Egyptians were simply too daft to grasp the idea of this impersonal God. Aten is not a God one can talk too; Aten is the cosmos, aten is everything. "No one,” says he, “seems to have realised until within this century, the truth which was the basis of Akhenaten’s worship: that the rays of the Sun are the means of the Sun’s action, the source of all life, power and force in the universe. This abstraction of regarding the radiant energy as all-important was quite disregarded until recent views of the conservation of force, of heat as a mode of motion, and the identity of heat, light and electricity, have made us familiar with the scientific conception which was the characteristic feature of Akhenaten’s new worship.” From 'The Lightning and the Sun' by Savitri Devi.
Yet ironically Tut's reign was pretty uneventful and he did little actual ruling as he was still a kid when he ascended the throne, and it was his advisers who did much of the governing in his name.
AKHENATEN died after the battle with seti who avenged his dad who drowned in the reed sea. This caused war when the sea people came to avenge him. Israelites a Aka essene is his followers. I know all is to know and much more because I know him
Not to mention, erasing someone's name and history on the mortal plane was believed to actually kill them in the afterlife... yeah, they _really_ wanted to get back at Akhenaten for that little stunt of his.
In an alternate timeline, if this dynasty wasn’t erased by egyptians, Tutankhamun's tomb could have been robbed, and his sarcophagus could have never been found by western archaeologists, and Hollywood would have never made the Classic Mummy movies, and we wouldn’t have the Brendan Fraser mummy movies, and then we wouldn’t have Dwane Johnson as the Scorpion King, but hey, this is just one path out of many other paths which history could have taken, this is Cody, from the AlternateHistoryHub. *plays Retrowave in the background
Frist Name Last Name #NotMyKing Pharaohs ruled somewhere in the Arabian peninsula, not in Egypt. The closest depiction for the Egyptian ruler is "King", and for some like Ramses II, "Emperor"
However, during the period known as the New Kingdom, in which Akhenaten ruled, the Egyption ruler became known as a pharaoh. They continued to still adress their ruler with “your majesty”. Pharaoh is the Greek form of the Egyptian pero or per-a-a, which was the designation for the Egyptian royal residence (definition = “Great House) and in time was used exclusively for the leader of the Egyptians.
There’s a lot of weird stuff in Egypt like that story about how the goddess of love tried destroying humanity and the other gods got her drunk to make her stop
Darth Vitiate Well you devoured the life of an entire planet to become immortal only to be defeated by a mere Jedi Knight, so you really shouldnt criticise a deity of a backward civilization, right? :D
You mean the pharaoh I wanted to forget after he got the most paragraphs dedicated to him (about 4) of any Egyptian pharaoh in my AP World History textbook only to hear at the end "then everything went back to normal after he died lol".
Just finished writing a long essay for School on this guy, a few historical inaccuracies here and there but overall a good summary. For example, there is quite a lot of evidence to suggest that Akhenaten did openly deny the existence of other gods, making it Monotheistic. The temples of Amun/Amun-re were shut down and inscriptions in temples were replaced with the Aten. Naturally due to the importance of religion in Ancient Egyptian society the priesthood of Amun held lots of power, and naturally Atenism did take away lots of their power, some of which wouldn't even return when the old pantheon of gods were reinstated by by his son, Tutankhamun (fun fact his original name was Tutankhaten). And calling Akhenaten a heretic is accurate as he is often referred to as 'The Heretic King' or 'The Great Criminal'.
+LuigianoMariano, Just a heresy? No, he had monopolized entire cult, in essence what he had in mind can be explained easy, he had tried to reverse history, to bring back the times of Old Kingdom, when the king, not the pharaoh, for the title of pharaoh will come in use in the New Kingdom, was sole mediator between gods and people. Furthermore, he had diminished mortuary cults, which almost all ancient Egyptians considered as most important. Combine all that with a struggle for power between him and richest priesthood in the country, and you have a recipe for a disaster. Although some historians consider his religious reform as henoteistic, it was monotheistic in essence, but he had use it as a political tool.
LuigianoMariano He then came to the Israelites with the Levites and showed them there ways. A very similar story to Moses don't ya think? Exodus was probably real
Is there a source for the claim that Egyptian life span was in their late 30's after they already survived childhood? I never heard that before, usually the life span in societies like these is around 30 while including childhood mortality, not excluding it.
The book and film "Sinuhe the Egyptian" sets place in the reign of Akhenaten and is said to be quite accurate in depicting ancient Egypt. The book is mostly fiction but the author did a lot of work to get the setting historically correct. It's a classic book and I definitely recommend reading it if you get the chance. It tackles a lot of topics regarding society that are relevant even in our times.
I was led to beleive that, that erasing of people from the historical records was something that happened a few times in ancient Egypt, the other big example being Hapshetsut, the Woman Pharoh, since after her death, there was apparently a systamatic attempt to remove her from history, with thousands of monuments being altered or defaced to remove all mention of her name.
+weldowin, Thats correct, Hatshepsut was also eradicated from monuments, but not like Akhenaton who was sentenced to damnatio memoriae. Why she was eradicated? No one knows for sure, but one of the recent hypothesis is that she had committed a serious crime, that she had spoiled divine royal blood with a commoner, with Senenmut. The royal females had no right to do that, they had just two option, either to marry a male member of a royal family or to stay in celibacy.
The main reason why average life expectancy was so short in ancient times was because somewhere around 8 times out of ten, most women back then would die whilst giving birth, as a lack of advanced medicine makes the process of giving birth much more dangerous. During the era of the Roman Republic, if we subtract the deaths caused by childbirth, the average lifespan jumps to somewhere around 70, something similar to what it is today. If I'm wrong, please correct me, as this is based off of some video that I vaguely remember watching a long time ago, and I am not for sure on it's validity, but since I heard EmperorTigerstar mentioned something about this at approximately 6:42, I thought that I'd pitch in my two cents.
i remember covering this guy in ap art history and seeing his weird alien-looking art juxtaposed to the other, simpler Egyptian art, and ever since then hes freaked me out
Abyssinia Empire Exactly! The whole meme is making fun of an incredibly small minority of black people called Hoteps using racist stereotypes. And its oftentimes used to deny that Africans had any major civilizations at all, which is only true if you ignore the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire, the Songhai Empire, Great Zimbabwe (not the modern country, the 13th century kingdom), Axum, Ethiopia, the many other Abyssinian kingdoms, and the Somali and Swahili trading city-states.
Ou mai gah. I read the Egyptian (Sinuhe The Egyptian) and I didn't know that almost all of the facts about him were correct. Holy shit I was reading a historically correct book.
Akhenaten is a popular figure among the Ancient Astronaut crowd. A popular explanation for his affinity for bizarre narrow body-features is because it was his way of venerating, via bodily emulation, the Grays that supposedly descended to Ancient Egypt to interact with humans and grant them pyramid-building technology. #TheMoreYouKnow
Merritt Animation They've never been known to be great with historical accuracy. And unfortunately, ancient astronaut theory is a really difficult theory to disprove because they'll just say we haven't gotten the tech yet. They are completely off their rocker
Akhenaten was quite the art reformer. His artworks are different in style and the kind of things they depict when compared with previous Pharaohs. His artwork is generally considered to be a realistic depiction of him. It's also very likely that all the Pharaohs looked like him, due to the large amounts of incest present in the royal bloodline of Egypt.
Great video! Have you ever tried the "cylinders of the pharaoh"? They are ancient Egyptian electrical technology made from copper and zinc cylinders filled with quartz crystal when held produce electricity! They can be purchased on Amazon from only 29.99
Ancient Egypt was pretty weird to begin with, but his guy was more whacked than all of them. Nice vid! Also, you've got an incredibly attractive voice. Just saying.
Heh, I remember all this from the Blake & Mortimer comic "The Secret of the Great Pyramid", Mortimer speaks about all of this, oh and the comic also has a whole treasure hunt for his grave, The Chamber of Horus, that would give folks immense power.
Akhenaten's rejection of many many Egyptian gods could support the Exodus/Moses. His father acknowledged the people of Yahweh at his Temple at Soleb. His father (grandfather of King Tut) became Pharaoh because the 1st born Prince died unexpectedly. This could imply the Passover of the Exodus. It could imply the ten plagues actually happened that humbled the gods of Egypt and it's Pharaoh Amenhotep II - at the very zenith of Egyptian military power. Akenaten knowing all this realized that he needed a god greater than the multiple weak/inept gods of Egypt against the GOD Yahweh of the Hebrews. So he came up with a greater/greatest god of Egypt - Ra - to combat Yahweh.
Not really. For one Yusuf or joseph period is probably linked to the hyksos invasion period of the Egyptian history around 1500 BC time and then also most of what is said in those text didn't happen.
Everyone is so misunderstood about Akhenaten. The high priest were selling idols, very powerful aristocrats with there own agendas. He said we should be worshipping the life giving sun. Something tangible you could actually see. He new the other Gods were just myth. He NEVER said he was a God or should be worshipped. He showed how he actually looked. Think about today if somebody said you know what catholic church i.e priest, you have to much power and your selling God. Therefore your done. He was a great Pharoah but as we know today it's hard to change the status quo and get rid of crooked people. He never destroyed other temples nor forced people to worship his God
One can say that in ancient Egypt there were attempts to erase all mention of Pharaoh Akhenaten and his one god, monotheistic religion. So, not much seems to be known about that religion today. And, beforehand there were attempts to remove the polytheistic religion of ancient Egypt. So, destruction both times. It's a pity the two religions couldn't have existed together in peace and harmony. Dogma does not work. There is also believed to be a connection between Moses and Akhenaten. I heard also that after Akhenaten there were still a small group of people who followed that religion.
Ia Thanks as someone who studied it in school it wasn’t even that interesting tbh. Just showed how defunct the monarchy was by then. Baldwin the pm essentially intervened in the marriage of the king, showing how the House of Commons had overwhelming control over the country and could heavily influence the crown. Then the king abdicated because he wanted to marry Wallis Simpson and didn’t want to put up with all the shit that being king meant.
ohkban is the forgotten pharoah he was married to ihknatan eldest daughter, ihknatan was the son of ahkenatan son of amenamope amanotep, ohkban changed his name to tutankhamen
Numo Esso Alle Länder der Welt sind gegen einen Staat vereint und erst nach fünf Jahren haben sie daran gedacht, dass wir ohne die Hilfe von Hitlers Strategie mehr als 50 Millionen alliierte Länder getötet haben.
I think that the reason Akhenaten had his family drawn so weird and elongated was because in reality, they were aliens. He was the guy who built the pyramids, and rewrote history to make it seem like humans built the pyramids. But this upset the great alien overlord Aten, who removed him from power, and then had history wiped out so we wouldn't find out.
You can nitpick it, but he was monotheistic basically. Say you decide that there is a single, capital G God, but the other, lower G gods still exist as some sort of really powerful beings like angels or jinns. Changing the meaning of the word "god" to refer to only one God would be a cherry on top of the shit sundae of the controversy and the conflict with the priests. So the two ways to go about describing the concept of this monotheism in those conditions is either saying that Aten is the only god worthy of worship because he is the only one who is all powerful while others are just very powerful or saying that Aten is a new thing above the beings referred to by the word "gods", which aren't even perfectly immortal in Egyptian religion/mythology. There isn't really a problem of whether the religion was monotheistic or polytheistic, there simply had been a problem of linguistic at the time, made worse by the conflict between the monotheistic and polytheistic understandings of divinity.
My question is how in the heck does any one individual know how the people thousands of years ago were thinking...and actually doing and when...and their opinions.. does anyone even think that the understanding of hieroglyphics to derive these theories are even true! It’s an interpretive opinion at best... I have read of the elongated skulls , I also have read of akenuthen strange dna? ... this whole interpretation could be far from the real truth.
Im a stone cold atheist but I could get down with worshiping the sun. Its the biggest reason we can live on this planet. They were really doing it right back then.
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Gotta get those ankhs.
EmperorTigerstar ayyyyyyyyyyyyy
EmperorTigerstar nice video
Teddy Bear ?
[Insert Ankh-Morpork joke here]
I learned about Akhenaten last year in high school.
Because overturning thousands of years of religious tradition while pissing off most of the high ranking members of my government system sounds like a great idea -Akhenaten
(Egypt collectively face palms)
"What if we, like, throw away all our gods, and like change the entire upper class! Worship my new sun god!"
flyingkoopa45 “don’t worry, they’ll all still be around, but I want you to worship THIS GUY more than all the rest.”
What a dumb comment, you don't know anything about Akhenaten. So called 'sun worship' is probably older than the many local Gods people had. Local Gods are often reflections the people itself and part of a larger cosmic order. The Sun, represents all life. Most Egyptians were simply too daft to grasp the idea of this impersonal God. Aten is not a God one can talk too; Aten is the cosmos, aten is everything.
"No one,” says he, “seems to have realised until within this century, the truth which was the basis of Akhenaten’s worship: that the rays of the Sun are the means of the Sun’s action, the source of all life, power and force in the universe. This abstraction of regarding the radiant energy as all-important was quite disregarded until recent views of the conservation of force, of heat as a mode of motion, and the identity of heat, light and electricity, have made us familiar with the scientific conception which was the characteristic feature of Akhenaten’s new worship.”
From 'The Lightning and the Sun' by Savitri Devi.
@CR100026740 Haha, low IQ pleb. Try using arguments instead of ad hominem attacks.
Akhenaten wanted to be remembered as Egypt's greatest pharaoh. Nowadays, he is stuck in the shadow of his son, Tutankhamun.
@@sagittariousblack857 yep king tut killed king Akhenaten
@@officiallouistansyt7813 he was a 9 year old when akhenaten died, Imagine being a nine year old and killing your own father 😆
Yet ironically Tut's reign was pretty uneventful and he did little actual ruling as he was still a kid when he ascended the throne, and it was his advisers who did much of the governing in his name.
He is never stuck under him if its his son. Tut didn't kill him either. AKHENATEN returned to Egypt after horemheb died and confronted Ramses.
AKHENATEN died after the battle with seti who avenged his dad who drowned in the reed sea. This caused war when the sea people came to avenge him. Israelites a
Aka essene is his followers. I know all is to know and much more because I know him
Not to mention, erasing someone's name and history on the mortal plane was believed to actually kill them in the afterlife... yeah, they _really_ wanted to get back at Akhenaten for that little stunt of his.
Dionysios L. Upending thousands of years of religious tradition can really create a grudge
damn I didn't know the Egyptians watched coco
tony the little details here and there you know.
@@tony-wt1wq they also read 1984 too
👁
In an alternate timeline, if this dynasty wasn’t erased by egyptians, Tutankhamun's tomb could have been robbed, and his sarcophagus could have never been found by western archaeologists, and Hollywood would have never made the Classic Mummy movies, and we wouldn’t have the Brendan Fraser mummy movies, and then we wouldn’t have Dwane Johnson as the Scorpion King, but hey, this is just one path out of many other paths which history could have taken, this is Cody, from the AlternateHistoryHub.
*plays Retrowave in the background
"BREAKING NEWS: Maui from Disney's recent animated film Moana would have a different voice actor if this one Egyptian pharaoh was more successful."
Daniel Pacheco That's not the line. It's "But hey, this is just one scenario. This is Cody, and thank you for watching."
You're not the real Cody. You're an imposter.
Maybe his sarcophagus would have been found by African archaeologists and maybe Nollywood would have made classic mummy movies.
Ironically by erasing him along with his father, Horemheb had made him one of the most famous pharaohs in the modern day.
#NotMyPharaoh
Frist Name Last Name #NotMyKing
Pharaohs ruled somewhere in the Arabian peninsula, not in Egypt. The closest depiction for the Egyptian ruler is "King", and for some like Ramses II, "Emperor"
TheHollowBodiesBand Source(s) please.
Imrukii Toa of Fire www.veteranstodayarchives.com/2011/12/09/ancient-egypt-knew-no-pharaohs/
However, during the period known as the New Kingdom, in which Akhenaten ruled, the Egyption ruler became known as a pharaoh. They continued to still adress their ruler with “your majesty”. Pharaoh is the Greek form of the Egyptian pero or per-a-a, which was the designation for the Egyptian royal residence (definition = “Great House) and in time was used exclusively for the leader of the Egyptians.
I didn't vote for him
The Real Reason Egypt Won't Cast Akhenaten Anymore
There’s a lot of weird stuff in Egypt like that story about how the goddess of love tried destroying humanity and the other gods got her drunk to make her stop
Darth Vitiate Well you devoured the life of an entire planet to become immortal only to be defeated by a mere Jedi Knight, so you really shouldnt criticise a deity of a backward civilization, right? :D
Wait wasn't the Egyptian goddes of love named Isis?
Hungarian Mapping people who arent fans of Legends are going to be very confused by that comment.
Wyatt Farmer no that’s the wife of Osiris
Sounds like a typical friday night to me
You mean the pharaoh I wanted to forget after he got the most paragraphs dedicated to him (about 4) of any Egyptian pharaoh in my AP World History textbook only to hear at the end "then everything went back to normal after he died lol".
Just finished writing a long essay for School on this guy, a few historical inaccuracies here and there but overall a good summary. For example, there is quite a lot of evidence to suggest that Akhenaten did openly deny the existence of other gods, making it Monotheistic. The temples of Amun/Amun-re were shut down and inscriptions in temples were replaced with the Aten. Naturally due to the importance of religion in Ancient Egyptian society the priesthood of Amun held lots of power, and naturally Atenism did take away lots of their power, some of which wouldn't even return when the old pantheon of gods were reinstated by by his son, Tutankhamun (fun fact his original name was Tutankhaten). And calling Akhenaten a heretic is accurate as he is often referred to as 'The Heretic King' or 'The Great Criminal'.
His period is the Joseph's period in Egypt !!!!!! No doubt abt it
Sooooo... Akhenaten is basically the ancient Egyptian equivalent of New Math?
Correct.
Except the fact that I wouldnt really care if I had to change my math style
WHY WOULD THEY CHANGE MATH. HOW DO YOU EVEN DO THAT?!
HexManiacMaylein It's complicated. Very, very, very, very complicated.
Its math or maths if the original technique works it litterally doesn't need changing. Its universal.
According to the History Channel, they had elongated skulls because they were aliens.
Puff Freckleburger We don't talk about that Ancient Aliens BS.
Jesse Hills right
History channel is a fake now. I don’t really trust it. It was inbreeding
Akhenaten was a gray/human hybrid.
it was a practice common among nobles to enhance shape of their heads so that they may look superior as bigger head means more intelligence
So Akhenaten essentially committed a massive, nation-wide Heresy against his own culture.
LuigianoMariano Pretty much. Helps to understand why they tried to wipe him from history
+LuigianoMariano, Just a heresy? No, he had monopolized entire cult, in essence what he had in mind can be explained easy, he had tried to reverse history, to bring back the times of Old Kingdom, when the king, not the pharaoh, for the title of pharaoh will come in use in the New Kingdom, was sole mediator between gods and people. Furthermore, he had diminished mortuary cults, which almost all ancient Egyptians considered as most important. Combine all that with a struggle for power between him and richest priesthood in the country, and you have a recipe for a disaster. Although some historians consider his religious reform as henoteistic, it was monotheistic in essence, but he had use it as a political tool.
LuigianoMariano He then came to the Israelites with the Levites and showed them there ways. A very similar story to Moses don't ya think? Exodus was probably real
YES
@@joeycash9739 wrong
Is there a source for the claim that Egyptian life span was in their late 30's after they already survived childhood? I never heard that before, usually the life span in societies like these is around 30 while including childhood mortality, not excluding it.
The book and film "Sinuhe the Egyptian" sets place in the reign of Akhenaten and is said to be quite accurate in depicting ancient Egypt. The book is mostly fiction but the author did a lot of work to get the setting historically correct.
It's a classic book and I definitely recommend reading it if you get the chance. It tackles a lot of topics regarding society that are relevant even in our times.
I was led to beleive that, that erasing of people from the historical records was something that happened a few times in ancient Egypt, the other big example being Hapshetsut, the Woman Pharoh, since after her death, there was apparently a systamatic attempt to remove her from history, with thousands of monuments being altered or defaced to remove all mention of her name.
Never heard of that, where did you read that?
Yes Hatshepsut, the Female Pharaoh, started as co-regent to Thutmose III because he was too young but decided to take the throne for herself.
+weldowin, Thats correct, Hatshepsut was also eradicated from monuments, but not like Akhenaton who was sentenced to damnatio memoriae. Why she was eradicated? No one knows for sure, but one of the recent hypothesis is that she had committed a serious crime, that she had spoiled divine royal blood with a commoner, with Senenmut. The royal females had no right to do that, they had just two option, either to marry a male member of a royal family or to stay in celibacy.
weldonwin I've heard this as well although it was fairly common for the successors of any given ruler to do such things
The main reason why average life expectancy was so short in ancient times was because somewhere around 8 times out of ten, most women back then would die whilst giving birth, as a lack of advanced medicine makes the process of giving birth much more dangerous. During the era of the Roman Republic, if we subtract the deaths caused by childbirth, the average lifespan jumps to somewhere around 70, something similar to what it is today. If I'm wrong, please correct me, as this is based off of some video that I vaguely remember watching a long time ago, and I am not for sure on it's validity, but since I heard EmperorTigerstar mentioned something about this at approximately 6:42, I thought that I'd pitch in my two cents.
Blatant falsehood on maternal mortality. It was around one in one-hundred women that would die in childbirth.
Ironic enough he's one of the most famous pharaohs of egypt
Great video!! Love the history of all ancient civilizations very well done an extremely informative 👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍 keep up the good work!!
Tigerstar you should really consider publishing your own history/geography book. I would totally buy that. Anyone else think the same?
Yes.
Do Nebuchadezznar
i remember covering this guy in ap art history and seeing his weird alien-looking art juxtaposed to the other, simpler Egyptian art, and ever since then hes freaked me out
We wuz kangz
Wow you really are everywhere
wot up
Ok now your catching me
Asmoh أسموح it's not African Americans per se but afro centrist who are causing this hysteria.
Abyssinia Empire Exactly! The whole meme is making fun of an incredibly small minority of black people called Hoteps using racist stereotypes. And its oftentimes used to deny that Africans had any major civilizations at all, which is only true if you ignore the Ghana Empire, the Mali Empire, the Songhai Empire, Great Zimbabwe (not the modern country, the 13th century kingdom), Axum, Ethiopia, the many other Abyssinian kingdoms, and the Somali and Swahili trading city-states.
Nice video tigerstar! Keep up the good work.
He has reincarnated in the form of Igor Bogdanoff
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Dump et
UHHH NO IAM RIGHT HERE 🔆🤔
do King nabochodnezar please
The first one or the Chaldean?
The Holy Schois
he is the king of Babylonian empire
Nebuchadnezzar?
مصطفى العراقي why Iraqi people always talk about him like he is the only king in ancient iraq
Michael Hill yes bro
6:57 Ramzes II: "Hold my beer!"
Dams
Fun fact: Ancient Egyptians invented beer.
Alex Yorim Lel. Yeah but joke was on how Ramzes II lived till 90.
Ou mai gah. I read the Egyptian (Sinuhe The Egyptian) and I didn't know that almost all of the facts about him were correct. Holy shit I was reading a historically correct book.
Von Otto When I first read it as a kid it felt so immersive I had to google some of the stuff. The Author Waltari studied egyptology for the book.
Historical Revisionism is a serious problem nowadays
Especially when it comes to the 20th century
Revisionism cuts through the BS of the propaganda of the time.
Elaborate
Pfsif not at all, beacuse it means rewriting history to match todays BS propaganda instead of trying to give it a more objective overview
Though rewriting history is harder these days.
0:13-0:27
Common Core in a nutshell
The thing you described is literally commoncore.
Akhenaten is a popular figure among the Ancient Astronaut crowd. A popular explanation for his affinity for bizarre narrow body-features is because it was his way of venerating, via bodily emulation, the Grays that supposedly descended to Ancient Egypt to interact with humans and grant them pyramid-building technology.
#TheMoreYouKnow
Logan Agle Especially weird considering the pyramids had existed for about 1,000 years by the time Akhenaten came around
Merritt Animation They've never been known to be great with historical accuracy. And unfortunately, ancient astronaut theory is a really difficult theory to disprove because they'll just say we haven't gotten the tech yet. They are completely off their rocker
Akhenaten was quite the art reformer. His artworks are different in style and the kind of things they depict when compared with previous Pharaohs. His artwork is generally considered to be a realistic depiction of him. It's also very likely that all the Pharaohs looked like him, due to the large amounts of incest present in the royal bloodline of Egypt.
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Exactly
Great video! Have you ever tried the "cylinders of the pharaoh"? They are ancient Egyptian electrical technology made from copper and zinc cylinders filled with quartz crystal when held produce electricity! They can be purchased on Amazon from only 29.99
That beginning bit reminded me of Common Core for some reason.
Hmmmm........
I've gotta like and subscribe when a history cat covers my favorite part of history.
7:17 Akhenaten looks like the late Christopher Lee.
Luiz Sa
I would never peg Sir Christopher Lee as one to act in British mummy movies since he IS the quintessential Dracula.
He also looks rather unimpressed at somebody.
Make an ancient history series where you showcase different ancient empires or historical events that happened in the ancient/classical period
What's the song playing in the background at 0:48?
Ancient Egypt was pretty weird to begin with, but his guy was more whacked than all of them. Nice vid!
Also, you've got an incredibly attractive voice. Just saying.
Heh, I remember all this from the Blake & Mortimer comic "The Secret of the Great Pyramid", Mortimer speaks about all of this, oh and the comic also has a whole treasure hunt for his grave, The Chamber of Horus, that would give folks immense power.
Imagine if all those graves werent looted we would have so much more information about ancient egypt
No one:
Akenhaten: *Praise the sun*
At 3:49 that is is a Roman temple in upper Egypt
Akhenaten's rejection of many many Egyptian gods could support the Exodus/Moses. His father acknowledged the people of Yahweh at his Temple at Soleb. His father (grandfather of King Tut) became Pharaoh because the 1st born Prince died unexpectedly. This could imply the Passover of the Exodus. It could imply the ten plagues actually happened that humbled the gods of Egypt and it's Pharaoh Amenhotep II - at the very zenith of Egyptian military power. Akenaten knowing all this realized that he needed a god greater than the multiple weak/inept gods of Egypt against the GOD Yahweh of the Hebrews. So he came up with a greater/greatest god of Egypt - Ra - to combat Yahweh.
Please keep up the polls!
7:13
Howard Carter: "hold my beer".
Why are all of my recommended videos hour-long documentaries? Do I look like I have that kind of attention span?
*damnatio memoriae*
Omg this narration fits perfectly in prophet Yusuf history.
Not really. For one Yusuf or joseph period is probably linked to the hyksos invasion period of the Egyptian history around 1500 BC time and then also most of what is said in those text didn't happen.
Really good i enjoyed this video
Only one true Egyptian god, and that is Lord Kek, God of Darkness and Chaos. He was also a frog.
7:07 this brotha looks like he's about to give you the Quick Rundown
Could also be called "monolatrism" under the circumstances you describe.
can u do loss of palestinian land? 1900 to 2018??
"Open are the doble doors of the horizon
Unloncket are its bolts
Take this king to the skies
Because hi is not from earth
Hi is from the sky"
every single Pharaoh was recognized as a "God" or was worshiped by the ruled population.
Everyone is so misunderstood about Akhenaten. The high priest were selling idols, very powerful aristocrats with there own agendas. He said we should be worshipping the life giving sun. Something tangible you could actually see. He new the other Gods were just myth. He NEVER said he was a God or should be worshipped. He showed how he actually looked. Think about today if somebody said you know what catholic church i.e priest, you have to much power and your selling God. Therefore your done. He was a great Pharoah but as we know today it's hard to change the status quo and get rid of crooked people. He never destroyed other temples nor forced people to worship his God
the volume on this is ......
Me and my brother hate it when the teachers say you have to do it this way even though it is not as helpful as we did previously
I would argue that from the history standpoint, not much has changed where many people don’t know much history
If someone could tell me what the music is from, that would be great.
BirdValiant it’s at the end slide
Vontoocut is a youtuber that is This king reincarnated
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@Jayden Mohamed he did a live today and didn't talk about it bruh idk why
OMG SOMEONE ACTUALLY MADE A VIDEO ON HIM
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One can say that in ancient Egypt there were attempts to erase all mention of Pharaoh Akhenaten and his one god, monotheistic religion. So, not much seems to be known about that religion today. And, beforehand there were attempts to remove the polytheistic religion of ancient Egypt. So, destruction both times. It's a pity the two religions couldn't have existed together in peace and harmony. Dogma does not work. There is also believed to be a connection between Moses and Akhenaten. I heard also that after Akhenaten there were still a small group of people who followed that religion.
You should do a video on why king Edward abdictated
Ia Thanks as someone who studied it in school it wasn’t even that interesting tbh. Just showed how defunct the monarchy was by then. Baldwin the pm essentially intervened in the marriage of the king, showing how the House of Commons had overwhelming control over the country and could heavily influence the crown. Then the king abdicated because he wanted to marry Wallis Simpson and didn’t want to put up with all the shit that being king meant.
Joe Bowden I know, but still cool and how he had nazi sympathies
Ia Thanks so did Lloyd George
It's a shame the stranglehold Parliament had shown on the monarchy in that affair.
They forgot but we didn't. We'll never forget.
Oberkommandant MacGuffin Like the guy who burned down that temple to Artemis
Akhenaten does have an eerie image.
I don't have to imagine that scenario, that's a scenario that actually happens where I work on a regular basis
Story of yusuf alayhisalam
Never forgetti Akhenatti
do people eat 3 meals a day
Akhetaten was a first lizard alien.
Do Chandragupta Maurya please
Do The Rulers Of Asia
Because Change ain’t easy! Priests are hard to be pleasin’!
ohkban is the forgotten pharoah he was married to ihknatan eldest daughter, ihknatan was the son of ahkenatan son of amenamope amanotep, ohkban changed his name to tutankhamen
Akhentaten was pretty interesting, but definitely not one of my top 10 presidents
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Next the war germany wanted to forget
1945?
dont
Fap Man Ja sicher, hat wohl offensichtlich nicht ganz geklappt.
Hahaha yea no that'll never happen, not with so many good games made about it
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Alle Länder der Welt sind gegen einen Staat vereint und erst nach fünf Jahren haben sie daran gedacht, dass wir ohne die Hilfe von Hitlers Strategie mehr als 50 Millionen alliierte Länder getötet haben.
I think that the reason Akhenaten had his family drawn so weird and elongated was because in reality, they were aliens. He was the guy who built the pyramids, and rewrote history to make it seem like humans built the pyramids. But this upset the great alien overlord Aten, who removed him from power, and then had history wiped out so we wouldn't find out.
We only discuss real history here, not unprovable hypotheses.
I hope this is ironic
I think he had another name, thank god the truth always comes to light.
I think he was onto something.
Keep up with the great content.
In romania we kinda learned about him in the first year of highschool
Wait Egypt's life expectancy at 15 was 35-40??
May The Fourth be with you, Tigerstar!
You can nitpick it, but he was monotheistic basically. Say you decide that there is a single, capital G God, but the other, lower G gods still exist as some sort of really powerful beings like angels or jinns. Changing the meaning of the word "god" to refer to only one God would be a cherry on top of the shit sundae of the controversy and the conflict with the priests. So the two ways to go about describing the concept of this monotheism in those conditions is either saying that Aten is the only god worthy of worship because he is the only one who is all powerful while others are just very powerful or saying that Aten is a new thing above the beings referred to by the word "gods", which aren't even perfectly immortal in Egyptian religion/mythology. There isn't really a problem of whether the religion was monotheistic or polytheistic, there simply had been a problem of linguistic at the time, made worse by the conflict between the monotheistic and polytheistic understandings of divinity.
My question is how in the heck does any one individual know how the people thousands of years ago were thinking...and actually doing and when...and their opinions.. does anyone even think that the understanding of hieroglyphics to derive these theories are even true! It’s an interpretive opinion at best... I have read of the elongated skulls , I also have read of akenuthen strange dna? ... this whole interpretation could be far from the real truth.
Im a stone cold atheist but I could get down with worshiping the sun. Its the biggest reason we can live on this planet. They were really doing it right back then.
how do you artificially elongate a skull?
I still like Final Fantasy 9 more than 7
Everyone's entitled to their wrong opinion.
James Tullos That comment are sick
(I've never actually played very long only watched my friends/family a considerable amount)
I prefer 8. I like 4 a lot too but that's Cause I almost beat it myself.
James Tullos yeah, like people who defend combat for babies 7
That was totally wicked!
So, he is Echnaton. His wife was Nofretete
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He wanted it to Be one god. This is where they get the story of Abraham from. And the high priest got him together‼️
I was like: this guy said he's gonna talk about Egipt and now he sound like he's talking about E.U. ...
That dude an alien 👽 nanoo-nanoo
YES IAM
I think Michael Jackson did a documentary on this. Do you remember that time?...
Shtttttt people want to forget about it...
What is your name suposed to mean?
Look obviously this guy was a stranded Ancient Alien who tried and failed to get Egypt to send him back into space.
AK's gots some alien eyes.