Comments on: Egypt’s Golden Empire

By: Matt Coates

Matt Coates — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 01:01:00 +0000

of cores the they were not black! are you saying that the foot stool was painted by the whites just to make the blacks look bad? and the sphinx dose not represents tefnut the lioness. they say it is the father of king Kufu

By: David

David — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:25:00 +0000

You are wrong. Nubians were clearly different than Egyptians, not just skin color, but also facial features and body types, as seen in Egyptian art.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 11 May 2011 17:30:00 +0000

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

By: james

james — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 08:02:42 +0000

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

By: cedric

cedric — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:23:06 +0000

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 north or “whites”. And the footstool that depicted the blacks as being steping stones to me seemed out of place. Number one the color 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……

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:51:56 +0000

lol @ Karen.
no… just no…

By: gero2006

gero2006 — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 01:17:05 +0000

@Thomas

Ha! Not just South American corn 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.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 13:10:44 +0000

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

By: Emily

Emily — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 15:59:47 +0000

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.

By: Lion

Lion — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 12:43:58 +0000

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 majority 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, historians believed Djedefre to be an outcast, that he murdered his brother in order 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 information comes from a studying Egyptologist. I have my masters degree in archeology, and I have studied under Dr. Zahi Hawass.)

By: kilroy

kilroy — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:11:25 +0000

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

By: matthew

matthew — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:17:01 +0000

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 or air damage. and i wonder how long the inscribed tablets were in the sand before found.

By: matthew

matthew — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:04:45 +0000

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 more and something bad happened to the land. i don’t believe in god or anything but the dream i had was very real and i think that there is much more to that place than people think. all i know is that so much is being translated from writings but two words have more 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 word from generation to generation. someone knows.

By: RT

RT — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:26:23 +0000

baba – Moses probably isn’t mentioned as very little, if any, of the Exodus story or later conquest of the promised land is mentioned in Egyptian records, or those of other surrounding kingdoms. This is a series about the Egyptian Pharoahs of the New Kingdom, not the Torah/OT or the mythistory of Israel. If Moses did exist, we don’t know which Pharoah it would have been, as estimates for 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 before her time.

By: baba

baba — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 02:58:44 +0000

Where is Moses -the prophet- in this, he wasn’t mentioned in the story, according to my calculations he lived about 1200 years before 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 story is not written on the walls of the Pharaos, could that be possible.