Comments on: Egypt’s Golden Empire

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sat, 19 May 2012 19:09:00 +0000

Women in the Egyptian society held the SAME rights as a man. They could own property, vote, etc. Whatever men could do women could do.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sat, 19 May 2012 19:04:00 +0000

Cleopatra was a Queen not a Pharoh. There’s a difference.

By: Kevin Harris

Kevin Harris — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:46:00 +0000

cut it out the egyptains were black and az we know black come in a varitry of shades trer not arab wich are white people pal arab

By: jj

jj — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:10:00 +0000

not exactly….new DNA reserch shows the cuurrant egyptions are dirrectly link to the ancient egyptions and there color is from very light to very dark skin.

By: Greg Toolson

Greg Toolson — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:12:00 +0000

Why did the documentary keep showing corn as their crop?

Corn is from the Americas, Egyptians wouldn’t have had corn

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.)