I always try to time my thermonuclear strikes for 2:05. The power of the music when it kicks back in at 2:14 in time with the mushroom cloud is immense.
It sounds a bit more Arabian than Egyptian imo. EDIT: My goodness, I found out that the original, El Helwa Di, was actually written by an Arabian composer ABOUT an Egyptian person ... um?
Not to burst everyone's bubble here but what you perceive as 'arabian' and 'egyptian' music is just from Hollywood composers trying to evoke an 'exotic' feel to their music in movies like "the mummy" or "Lawrence of arabia" by using the Harmonic minor and Dominant Phrygian scales/modes. Nobody actually knows what arabian nor egyptian music was like.
I agree, that is probably how it is for many people. I personally do research on their music and even find modern music from countries in the area however. c:
Appropriate, Egypt was an independent and distinct civilization and culture, even if not always an independent one, for longer than basically any other.
IF YOU'RE NOT ZHE GOD NAMED HORUS ZHEN YOU SUPER DUPER BORE US IF YOU'RE NOT ZHE GOD NAMED HORUS GO AWAY, YOU SHTINK (anybody get that reference? please tell me you get that reference)
This whole song reminds of the ANCIENT HORN OF AFRICA. ANCIENT PUNT. ANCIENT SOMALI WORLD. ANCIENT ETHIOPIAN WORLD. ANCIENT ERITREAN WORLD. READ SEA. The lands and sea and costs and people and dresses and sun and sand and wooden ships(canoos) and boats, and bread baking girls and women and kids and spears of the soldiers and fighters and pyramids. Im sending my Selam to the whole horn of africa. My love for you is there. 🇸🇴🇩🇯JIBUUTI/SOMALIA WAAN KUJECLAHAY. 🇪🇹🇪🇷ERITREA/ETHIOPIA. EWEDESHALLEW.
sounds more Arabic. While modern Egypt nowadays is more Arabian, in the times of ancient Egypt it was predominantly black, similar to the Nubians and the later Kushites.
aren't there studies that point to ancient egyptians being closer related to middle eastern peoples and even some european groups? it would be weird to assume that egypt was predominantly black considering they sit at the mediterranean sea where trade and contact was very common with seafaring peoples of the north and people from the east.
@@jeff-nz3ij I think your confusing modern Egypt, to ancient Egypt. Egypt goes into 4 distinctive periods. With most of them relating to people from ancient Nubian, and other-sub-Saharan civilizations of the time. Egypt has only now, become predominantly middle eastern after being controlled by the romans, ottomans, Persians, Assyrians, and more for centuries. It is important to note that I'm not saying all Egyptians are black, but that they were predominantly so. Especially in ancient times, as Egyptians have, throughout time, been described as dark, wooly-haired people, a quote taken from numerous Latin scriptures, and even having connections to ancient Greek descriptions as well. Not to mention that even in the bible, Egypt was described as the land of Hamites, or ham. which loosely related to the descendants of Noah who had black skin. Not to mention that most ancient-Egyptians depicted themselves as lightly-dark-skinned/similar to that of people of modern-day Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia. With ancient Egyptian sculptures having very 'African' featuristics too, which was a driving factor for the theories in the late 90's-2000's.
They were more closely connected to the Middle East. It is safe to assume they were more near east than Nubian, but definitely had some notable influences.
They portrayed themselves in their murals. Their skin was the color of bricks. They painted their neighbors to the south, the Nubians. They were the color of obsidian. Very different from one another.
@@luis.m.yrisson they were multiethnic, comprised of north african, traditional ethiopian an nubian. They were black skinned, they portrayed themselves as much. Nubians were considerably darker than ethiopians and north africans, and made up a significant population in central and southern egypt and well as lower nubia. Egypt had oreviously been ruled by nubian kings and pharaoh's aswell. It's why egyptians portray themselves as brick-coloured, as well as obsidian coloured. Egyptians themselves considered themselves ethnically punt and north african. The genetics of surviving egyptian linages confirm this as well, as well as nubian dna. The oldest egyptian pyramid is found in nubia, now sudan. And people there consider themselves as such. Punt, was the egyptian birthplace, and they recall it being somehwere around modern day ethiopia, (askum and kush) it was likely someplace around nubia. nubians are very diverse and not all are fully black skinned, there are light skinned nubians as well as very dark skinned nubians. Africa is the most diverse place on the planet, culturally, religiously, genetically and archelogically. Recent studies show their most recent ancestors to be a mix of etho-nubian and north african.
I played this in my kitchen cooking pasta bolognese and it turned into koshari when I wasn’t looking.
I always try to time my thermonuclear strikes for 2:05. The power of the music when it kicks back in at 2:14 in time with the mushroom cloud is immense.
wow, the true power of RA!. nuclear explosion of the gods
@@Dominick77 true power of Rã lmao xD
Wow, it's must be difficult..
Can’t if it’s industrial
Cleopatra has a long neck
But a fine little nose
A most lovely nose!
Good lord, I never noticed that until now either, lol
*N E C C*
Pretty sure she is just tall, in height, not in neck, XD
Cleopatra has finished wonder - "insert_wonder_name_here".
Pyramids
Golden Gate
Oracle
Alhambra
Colossus
Great Lighthouse
Great Library
Oxford University
Eiffel Tower
That background is so cool
Is it weird that I get more of a "Lawrence of Arabia" vibe from Egypt's Industrial theme than Arabia's?
Kitsune Hawk I get the same Lawrence of Arabia vibe. It's in the long lyrical phrases.
Cause the theme of Arabia is actually Arabian.
Probably because Arabia's theme sounds like someone's about to tell me the tale of Russia's greatest love machine.
Makes sense seeing as Egypt was an Arab country by then.
or maybe because this is an arabic song and no one knows what egyptian music sounds like
Baroque music avoids these arabic sounding riffs.... BUT THIS IS BAROQUE MUSIC WITH ARABIC. Bach would be very frustrated yet extremely impressed.
The fugue-like sections are some of my favorite parts of the entire soundtrack for sure.
This music was written by a great Egyptian musician called Sayyed Darwish
It was?
@@chadbaker3117 what is wrong with it?you think it is grammatically incorrect?
@@chadbaker3117 It was not,it was writen by great Serbian musican called Sayyed Darwish 100% Serbian name,just trust me
@@nafetscivoktalz1172 Jesus was a serbian because his mother's name was Mary, (Marija in serbian).
@@nafetscivoktalz1172satire
We need to talk about how good 3:48 is
Same for the flute on 4:09
It sounds a bit more Arabian than Egyptian imo.
EDIT: My goodness, I found out that the original, El Helwa Di, was actually written by an Arabian composer ABOUT an Egyptian person ... um?
I mean it makes sense, modern Egypt is predominantly Muslim due to Arabian influence.
Yeah ... ancient Egypt wasn't. But at Cleopatra's time Egypt had been influenced by other cultures a bit more, I suppose.
I agree. It sounds more Arabic than truly ancient Egyptian. Arabic and ancient Egyptian are ENTIRELY DIFFERENT CULTURES mind you.
Not to burst everyone's bubble here but what you perceive as 'arabian' and 'egyptian' music is just from Hollywood composers trying to evoke an 'exotic' feel to their music in movies like "the mummy" or "Lawrence of arabia" by using the Harmonic minor and Dominant Phrygian scales/modes. Nobody actually knows what arabian nor egyptian music was like.
I agree, that is probably how it is for many people. I personally do research on their music and even find modern music from countries in the area however. c:
Everybody else: Arabian or Egyptian?
Me: DAT NEC THO
Ong on some slug shit
Me: cleopatra is greek
I love how Egypt and China are the longest living civilizations on Earth.
Geb de Médici Egyptian civilisation is pretty died out
@@twandepan Sure, it's far far different from what it was before but it's just the process of evolving with the technology.
Just like China.
Geb de Médici but, doesn’t every civilisation do that? Some just do it faster that others
@@twandepan The Brits and French are a continuation of the ancient people who painted in caves while the egyptian pyramids were being constructed.
You forgot the greeks
I’m literally playing the game right now
Oumeima El Khalil - IL Helwa Di
Nop it's Sayed Darwesh a very famous Egyptian Musician and singer 1923
It is longest soundtrack in the game
Appropriate, Egypt was an independent and distinct civilization and culture, even if not always an independent one, for longer than basically any other.
420th like, Egypt is getting lit tonight
Why do I hear a Jason Bourne scene coming up?
IF YOU'RE NOT ZHE GOD NAMED HORUS
ZHEN YOU SUPER DUPER BORE US
IF YOU'RE NOT ZHE GOD NAMED HORUS
GO AWAY, YOU SHTINK
(anybody get that reference? please tell me you get that reference)
This whole song reminds of the ANCIENT HORN OF AFRICA. ANCIENT PUNT. ANCIENT SOMALI WORLD. ANCIENT ETHIOPIAN WORLD. ANCIENT ERITREAN WORLD. READ SEA. The lands and sea and costs and people and dresses and sun and sand and wooden ships(canoos) and boats, and bread baking girls and women and kids and spears of the soldiers and fighters and pyramids.
Im sending my Selam to the whole horn of africa. My love for you is there. 🇸🇴🇩🇯JIBUUTI/SOMALIA WAAN KUJECLAHAY. 🇪🇹🇪🇷ERITREA/ETHIOPIA. EWEDESHALLEW.
It has nothing to do with east African
Its arabic, NORTH África, has nothing to do with Somalia and east África LOL funny
But this is Modern egyptian music and used in the middle east are you Trying to tell us egyptian music is east african? What a idiot
@@mohammedzaid9274
_Egypt is technically in Africa_
@@mohammedzaid9274 _And you do know Egypt lies on the African continent, right?_
This version sounds a lot like Egypts attempts to stay relevant in the modern world
sounds more Arabic. While modern Egypt nowadays is more Arabian, in the times of ancient Egypt it was predominantly black, similar to the Nubians and the later Kushites.
aren't there studies that point to ancient egyptians being closer related to middle eastern peoples and even some european groups? it would be weird to assume that egypt was predominantly black considering they sit at the mediterranean sea where trade and contact was very common with seafaring peoples of the north and people from the east.
@@jeff-nz3ij I think your confusing modern Egypt, to ancient Egypt. Egypt goes into 4 distinctive periods. With most of them relating to people from ancient Nubian, and other-sub-Saharan civilizations of the time. Egypt has only now, become predominantly middle eastern after being controlled by the romans, ottomans, Persians, Assyrians, and more for centuries. It is important to note that I'm not saying all Egyptians are black, but that they were predominantly so. Especially in ancient times, as Egyptians have, throughout time, been described as dark, wooly-haired people, a quote taken from numerous Latin scriptures, and even having connections to ancient Greek descriptions as well. Not to mention that even in the bible, Egypt was described as the land of Hamites, or ham. which loosely related to the descendants of Noah who had black skin. Not to mention that most ancient-Egyptians depicted themselves as lightly-dark-skinned/similar to that of people of modern-day Ethiopia, Sudan, Somalia. With ancient Egyptian sculptures having very 'African' featuristics too, which was a driving factor for the theories in the late 90's-2000's.
They were more closely connected to the Middle East. It is safe to assume they were more near east than Nubian, but definitely had some notable influences.
They portrayed themselves in their murals. Their skin was the color of bricks. They painted their neighbors to the south, the Nubians. They were the color of obsidian. Very different from one another.
@@luis.m.yrisson they were multiethnic, comprised of north african, traditional ethiopian an nubian. They were black skinned, they portrayed themselves as much. Nubians were considerably darker than ethiopians and north africans, and made up a significant population in central and southern egypt and well as lower nubia. Egypt had oreviously been ruled by nubian kings and pharaoh's aswell. It's why egyptians portray themselves as brick-coloured, as well as obsidian coloured.
Egyptians themselves considered themselves ethnically punt and north african. The genetics of surviving egyptian linages confirm this as well, as well as nubian dna.
The oldest egyptian pyramid is found in nubia, now sudan. And people there consider themselves as such.
Punt, was the egyptian birthplace, and they recall it being somehwere around modern day ethiopia, (askum and kush)
it was likely someplace around nubia.
nubians are very diverse and not all are fully black skinned, there are light skinned nubians as well as very dark skinned nubians.
Africa is the most diverse place on the planet, culturally, religiously, genetically and archelogically. Recent studies show their most recent ancestors to be a mix of etho-nubian and north african.