• Karen

  How come all these Egyptian films negate the fact that this was a matriarchal society. Women were revered and had power as evidenced in the igin of Egyptian wds, still spoken to this day. They were not mere figure heads with limited power as our queen is. But yet the narrat characterizes the time as a ‘mans wld’ in his own patriarchial point of view. So, Queen Nefertiti dies, the whole city crumbles, I guess we know who was really in charge, and that the Pharaoh was just the figure head. What was the experiment, oh yeh, that males and females were equal. Failed miserably, without her he was nothing and wse–despised.

  This film makes you wonder if one of the 3 queens mentioned owned the face that was iginally carved and adned the sphynx. Yeh, that’s right! The sphynx is a female. A lioness, the hunter.

• Kelly K.

  Ok. Add this to my list of the many “to watch” docs here. You fgot Cleopatra. Wasn’t she an Egyptian powerhouse too? Was she mentioned? I suppose now I’ll just have to watch this doc to answer my own questions.

• me

  Cleopatra was a mistress to roman empers, who were the real rulers, and the great Sphinx of Giza is the (male) Pharao Chephren (Khafre). The Sphinx with Chephrens face symbolise the Sungod, the son of the Sungod. It’s the greek sphinxs that often are female.

• Kelly K.

  Very good doc. series. Lucky King Tut was an outcast his tomb would have been raided too and everything lost like the others.

• aksiom

  >Cleopatra was a mistress to roman empers, who were the >real rulers, and the great Sphinx of Giza is the (male) >Pharao Chephren (Khafre).

  You’re right about Cleopatra. (Actually there were eight Cleopatras, and the famous one is seventh.)

  And yes, they have thought f long time that Sphinx of Giza is Khafre, but what I found out in Egypt was that most of the egyptologists now think the other way. And actually in Cairo museum they got an amazing statue of Khafre (its written on the statue) and the face has absolutely nothing in common with the Sphinx. That’s not the biggest issue though. The dating, erosion and other reasons now point to direction that Sphinx definitely is not Khafre.

  Even me non-thodox theies about the Sphinx is found in this documentary:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PotS7hPQZTU

• Tawade

  Actually Cleopatra VII Philopater was Greek and not Egyptian. She did rule Egypt as a Ptolemy though, her daughter Cleopatra VIII Selene was the daughter of Mark Antoni and therefe half Roman and she did not rule Egypt at all. She was Queen of Cyrenaica and Libya and married Juba II and they were given Mauretanian to rule by Octavian, later Caesar Augustus, who defeated her parents and caused Cleopatra VII to commit suicide. FYI Cleopatra VIII was given to Octavian’s sister and Mark Antoni’s ex-wife, Octavia Min, to raise after her parents death. Her second name means moon as her fraternal twin brother Alexander Helios means sun. And we thought our family relationships were complicated!! So that is why the documentary mentions only three Egyptian Queens as the later Queens were Ptolemic and therefe Greek, at least that’s what I think. Loved the documentary, I saw one episode on TV years ago and loved being able to see all of it here online. :)

• Fact checker

  >How come all these Egyptian films negate the fact that this was a matriarchal society.<

  Because it wasn't. There is no proof – absolutely none whatsoever – that Egypt was a matriarchal society. Indeed, all available evidence indicates exactly the opposite. If you care to educate yourself and examine the evidence, I recommend reading any of the following monographs. The heiress they has been thoughly debunked.

  Mertz, Barbara. "Certain Titles of the Egyptian Queens and Their Bearing on the Hereditary Right to the Throne." Chicago: University of Chicago, 1952.

  Robins, Gay. "A critical examination of the they that the right to the throne of ancient Egypt passed through the female line in the 18th dynasty." Göttinger Miszellen 62 (1983): 67-77.

  Troy, Lana. "Patterns of Queenship: in ancient Egyptian myth and histy." BOREAS 14. Uppsala: ACTA Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1986.

  Moving on to the documentary itself, I thought it was excellent. The reenactments were a bit amusing, as always, but the infmation itself was mostly crect and presented in an interesting fashion.

• vikt

  GREAT doc and the music is SUPERB!! I wonder where could i get the music??

• baba

  Where is Moses -the prophet- in this, he wasn’t mentioned in the sty, accding to my calculations he lived about 1200 years befe Jesus christ, that would put him in the times of Rames the second- the great- but that one died old,95 years old, not in sea, I am just wondering don’t wanna offend anybody. The biblical sty is not written on the walls of the Pharaos, could that be possible.

• RT

  baba – Moses probably isn’t mentioned as very little, if any, of the Exodus sty later conquest of the promised land is mentioned in Egyptian recds, those of other surrounding kingdoms. This is a series about the Egyptian Pharoahs of the New Kingdom, not the Tah/OT the mythisty of Israel. If Moses did exist, we don’t know which Pharoah it would have been, as estimates f the time of the exodus differ by hundreds of years (if it actually happened).

  Just to add another reason to the list of why Cleopatra was not mentioned – this is a series about the New Kingdom. Which was over 1000 years befe her time.

• matthew

  i have watched many shows about egypt but not all the time. it is very interesting to know about the past. i recently seen a documentary about genghis khan and i know that he visited egypt. the documentary was about a map that they had found and on it was everywhere he had conquered. when they showed the map it showed that africa was under water mostly in the center of the whole place. anyways everytime i see the pyramids they look as they have been eroding. theres one thing though i had this dream about the pyramids that enlightened me very much but that is my secret since that dream i believe the egyptians had much me and something bad happened to the land. i don’t believe in god anything but the dream i had was very real and i think that there is much me to that place than people think. all i know is that so much is being translated from writings but two wds have me than one meaning. it could all be misenterpreted the only ones that know the truth are the families that don’t die in the place and pass the wd from generation to generation. someone knows.

• matthew

  i noticed in one of the videos that someone found tablets that was inscribed. i wonder if the tablets that had the inscriptions was inscribed so to be protected from water air damage. and i wonder how long the inscribed tablets were in the sand befe found.

• kilroy

  The Sphinx was female? Really? And does it really matter? The Sphinx was and is a big rock… nothing me.

• Lion

  Tutankhamen was an insignificant king. In his tomb, nearly none of the treasure found was actually his. His sarcophagus was, it is believed, actually in the image of his father. as was the majity of his treasure. People make such a big deal out of him only because his tomb was not ransacked.

  The sphinx was built by Djedefre in the image of his father. Up until recently, histians believed Djedefre to be an outcast, that he murdered his brother in der to obtain the throne. However, recent evidence has come to light showing that he was in fact a highly revered king, and that he did nothing against his family.

  (This infmation comes from a studying Egyptologist. I have my masters degree in archeology, and I have studied under Dr. Zahi Hawass.)

• Emily

  I’m pretty sure that Cleopatra was the “Last Great Pharaoh” and even if they did mess up on that they should have at least messed up by saying King Tut.

  P.S. Cleopatra was Greek and Macedonia, but she loved Egypt so much that she just took the culture and the language as her own (I think I read somewhere that she was the only Pharoah to speak Egyptian:] ). And Lion, if you did study under the wonderful Dr. Hawass, I am truly jealous.

• Thomas

  hm… I didn’t know that the egyptians of 1400 B.C. already had cn… the things you learn in documentaries are ‘interesting’ to say the least.

• gero2006

  @Thomas

  Ha! Not just South American cn in ancient Egypt. Seems they had vacinations by needle in ancient Egypt too – if the scars on the arms of the ladies in the re-enactments are anything to go by.

• Daniel

  lol @ Karen.
  no… just no…

• cedric

  I don’t like how they painted the picture of the nubians being of a different race than the egyption pharoahs. egypt was an all black land hence the term unification of “upper and lower egypt”, not nubia and egypt, they r one land and of one people. However the hyksos was the invasion of those from the nth “whites”. And the footstool that depicted the blacks as being steping stones to me seemed out of place. Number one the col was perfect as if it was painted yesterday, but everyother depiction of art is all faded and a distinct brown. Man times in these docs you can finf some truth along with alot of misleading info….I’m not biased but the facts r facts and it should be stated at that. and oh yeah it is well known that the sphinx represents tefnut the lioness……

• james

  This was great watch.Really enjoyed it a lot!I am also very impressed by the knowledge of Egyptology and histy in the comments!Astonishing!It’s renewed my interest in Egyptian studies.3000 years of Pharoahic dynasties is an overwhelming subject.

• Anonymous

  in Bible prophecy Egypt it symbolic of the fallen wld towards the end of time..starts of decked in, fame, riches, pleasure, ease and gly and ends, well, you know as God says in ruins never to rise again.interesting stuff

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