How Ancient Egypt Was Re-Discovered | The Story Of Egyptology

How Ancient Egypt Was Re-Discovered | The Story Of Egyptology | Odyssey

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Odyssey - Ancient History Documentaries

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Perhaps just as incredible as the ancient sites themselves is the story of the men and women who dedicated themselves to unveiling the mysteries of ancient Egypt. Join Dr Chris Naunton as he explores the story of how Ancient Egypt was rediscovered, and how its incredible sites and treasures were gradually decoded.
Odyssey is your journey into the world of Ancient History; from the dawn of Mesopotamia to the fall of Rome. We'll be bringing you only the best documentaries that journey into the mysteries and ruins of worlds long lost.
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@dubitoergo1811 11 күн бұрын

I'm Egyptian. I thank God that the Brits and French decided to ship those treasures away from Egypt. Egypt at the time -- and you could argue, still today -- dominated by an anti- enlightenment culture, namely Islam. People in my own country of birth were then -and to some extent, even today- clueless as to the importance of this history, when they are not actively trying to destroy this heritage in the name of some religious lunacy. So, stop being apologetic about this.

@drsjwhitman45 16 күн бұрын

History professor for 40 years. Now, at 79 yo going on Viking Cruise on the Nile. I have read several books and watched many Dr. Chris Naunton lessons. I am ready for Viking Hathor in Sept. 2024.

@MysticChronicles712 Ай бұрын

I'm continually fascinated by the depth of knowledge and the attention to detail in these Ancient Egypt videos. They truly bring the mysteries of the Nile to life!

@achilleasmavrellis740 Ай бұрын

Utterly brilliant, combining so many facets of the metahistory of the discipline with a genuine appreciation of the personalities involved.

@firehorse2008 Ай бұрын

Really exceptional documentary; very detailed and well put together.👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

@clivebaxter6354 22 күн бұрын

if you think this is good check out the fall of civilisations, 4 hour one on Egypt

@willowby23 Ай бұрын

Fantastic documentary Dr Chris, extremely informative and very well presented, thank you!! ❤

@SammyB-Habebe 10 күн бұрын

Napoleon’s quest to Egypt was the beginning of all of it!

@clivebaxter6354 22 күн бұрын

Fall of civilisations channel is exceptional on Egypt, 4 hours.

@Whurlpuul Ай бұрын

Brilliant video

@tinaprentice2136 Ай бұрын

Very well done documentary ❤

@nadineodil7060 Ай бұрын

this is wonderful

@9ramthebuffs9 24 күн бұрын

is this part of a series? This was especially well done.

@cejann3926 15 күн бұрын

He makes grave robbing sound so wonderful

@catherinemontrose2102 Ай бұрын

Well done documentary, but not once was an Egyptian person mentioned - not even the foreman of Carter's work crew, who supposedly is the one who found the stone step of Tutankhamen's tomb. For a modern piece of historical writing, that was a strange omission to me. Belzoni didn't "move the colossus" by his own strongman self! And many modern Egyptologists are Egyptians.

@LeeLong Ай бұрын

Right on!

@MrChanitha 24 күн бұрын

Modern Egyptologists came into being after Western excavations and study.😉

@johng4093 20 күн бұрын

The impetus and funding of early work came from Europeans and later Americans. That's the focus of this documentary.

@wpridgen4853 Ай бұрын

I would love to thumb through that book ..

@tiffanybarbee9316 Ай бұрын

That Big one? I wonder if it's available digitally...me too

@squidgert566 Ай бұрын

“Hardly anyone has been in Egypt” Well, that is except anyone who lived there, people trading, etc. Ok, I’m pedantic.

@enriqueteruel6574 17 күн бұрын

Egiptians has zero idea about the ancient ruins plus they never cared to translate the hierogliphs

@squidgert566 17 күн бұрын

@@enriqueteruel6574 I would beg to differ. They knew it was there and just didn’t care as the Egyptian society collapsed. Few people could read or write and if those who could disappeared, knowledge is lost. Almost like Rome. Population didn’t suddenly vanish. Nobody knew and/or cared how to maintain what was there and didn’t care to rebuild what was destroyed. Also Athens, South America, Asia. Many places get abandoned outright and forgotten but, well, pyramids in the desert are hard to miss.

@poisonivy8862 Ай бұрын

I'm sure the Egyptians knew ancient Egypt was there all along....no "rediscovery" needed for them...

@tiffanybarbee9316 Ай бұрын

It's crazy, but if a country today just went and took a bunch of stuff from another country like they did back then....I think it wouldn't happen on such a large scale before it would be stopped...I hope...

@twstf8905 24 күн бұрын

Word! 👍

@MrChanitha 24 күн бұрын

Before the Western Europeans, the countries were plundered by invaders/barbarians etc. We have no record of what was robbed or items to be seen.😉

@johng4093 20 күн бұрын

Earliest form of "archaeology" was treasure hunting. Even though modern archaeology would never do this, native looters continue to actively cause much destruction. Given the immense amount of buried historical material, I'd be surprised if even 1% has been removed to other countries.

@tiffanybarbee9316 Ай бұрын

Sands...had a good name for what he did!

@MrSomethingElse Ай бұрын

Don't get me wrong, this is fascinating. i know it's probably an unpopular opinion but I believe all the mummies should be repatriated. I know we have at least one here in the Dunedin Museum. As a Māori, it has been a generations long struggle to get treasures that were looted back, especially the "Tattooed Heads" and other pieces made from human anatomy but also carvings, stone tools and even entire houses. It was quite the fad for english wealth to have a carved Māori House on their estates, for parties and wotnot. I feel the same sense of outrage about the plundering of Egypt. Please don't maul me for this opinion but I'd like to hear yours....

@vi7225 Ай бұрын

Egyptians looted those treasures more than anyone. Read about tomb robbers. If it was not for westerners, all them will be gone. They couldn't steal the pyramid because it was too big. What you talking about 🤣

@user-nc2bf9vx5y Ай бұрын

And I feel the same way. Folks need to have their stuff back because it is their and your culture.

@lynnedelacy2841 Ай бұрын

I agree The Egyptians went to great lengths to preserve the bodies to enable them to enter the afterlife only to have their bodies on full display in glass cases for people to gawp at. There should be some way of respectful re burial Technology has advanced so much that it should be easy to replicate bodies for display

@nha9199 Ай бұрын

Regardless of who took them who looted them I totally agree with you, they should be repatriated ❤

@MrSomethingElse Ай бұрын

@@vi7225 Urgh, i knew this would attract trolls. Yep, a lot of them were looted within a generation of them being sealed. I am just saying that those dead people deserve respect, thats all mate. Trump 2024 right? @vi, it's ok for me to be wrong cuz, you don't have to "What you talking about" me cuz, it was just an opinion. What did I say to make you mad?

@jamesmiller4184 6 күн бұрын

The great favor done archeology and posterity by the French with their magnificent volumes, seems to myself as having been essentially selfless and serving of Necessity. As only one smaller example: the then somewhat surviving Theater at Antinopolis, built by command of Emperor Hadrian for his new city dedicated to the drowned Antinuous-Osiris, was very well documented. Today, there, the original is totally gone, it having been picked apart by builders using it for their material! But for the French of then and their exquisite work, we'd now know nothing of it. Hats-off to them, I say!

@twstf8905 24 күн бұрын

Ugh! The British Museum is a blight on modern civilized society! It should have been emptied out, everything boxed up, organized and shipped promptly back to its original owners just as systematically as when it was stolen. (If not more so.) I always go right to the obligatory example of Stonehenge, well aware of how cliché, because it's as true as anything. The U.K. wouldn't tolerate for a second some foreign people coming in, condoning off, and then hauling away the ancient megalithic structure back to their country, whether they invoked; "conservation," or tried using posterity as a justification or not. The fact is; the historical artifacts kept locked up inside the British Museum, (let alone all of the other Museums and Universities around the Western World, particularly in the United States, Canada, France, Australia, etc.,) no more belong uprooted from their points of origin than Stonehenge, if it were to be dug up and carted away somewhere else. And that should be obvious, especially to such a supposed; "educated," civilization. Since the proliferation of the internet, especially, and the ability for just about every human being to have access to any information available therein, with modern computer and cell phone technology, there hasn't been any justification whatsoever for those significant cultural artifacts to NOT be sent back to their rightful owners. Beginning with the British Museum. Then, Berlin the Louvre and all the way down to the most relatively obscure, like Eugene Oregon, Carson City Nevada, and of course Philadelphia, New York and Washington DC. (And every one in between. Correcting the mistakes of the past, colonialism in particular, (and there are some atrocities that can never be fully made up for,) was never going to be easy, but that one effort would be a start. If healing the world's deep divides is ever to stand a chance. (I'm just sayin' ✌️) #ConstructiveCriticism #DontShootTheMessenger

@johng4093 20 күн бұрын

😴 Museums have been at the forefront of modern study, education, and inspiration.

@KennyLeigh-or7ie 13 күн бұрын

This statement is so dumb. The archeologists would not have been allowed to find anything if not invited. Nothing would have been found if they did not come, there was no real interest in looking. All European’s aren’t evil. Just sayin’.

@user-qs7gx7rp7m 27 күн бұрын

Can't helping not all Pyramids were tombs if their uniqueness can be believed though some were 'incorporated' by others in a different age.

@bryan5549 Ай бұрын

"Two Ton Common" get it right! lol

@cejann3926 15 күн бұрын

Actually, they didn’t have vowels and his real name ends with Aten or tn

@jamesmiller4184 6 күн бұрын

So, Champollion beat out the Brit in the translation game but, did not Howard Carter more than make up for it? I'd say. WHY no "Sir" Howard Carter??? Might have there been special honors and recognition granted him by H.E.M. King Fuad? Well at that time political factors were intervening, which might well have gotten in the way in both cases. (Lecau!) How about a posthumous granting of knighthood to Carter by the present H.M. King Charles? So many questions; so few answers.

@Zoey505 Ай бұрын

The dead should never be disturbed.. remember the curse of King tut?...gosh its scary

@pleclerc1 17 күн бұрын

Great video but England and the other countries should have to return these stolen artifacts that belong to Egypt.

@1981bessa 13 күн бұрын

thank u so much

@user-qs7gx7rp7m 27 күн бұрын

Egyptians had to have been Saharians heirs? What lies to the west the direction Egypt dedicated to death and a symbolic setting sun. What lies still undiscovered buried deep in ancient valleys beneath the sand and sand dunes ?

@brettmuir5679 Ай бұрын

4:15 What? Are we seriously going to conflate King Tutankhamun with the Pyramids? One minute in and I want to say Good Bye,...yet I am hungry so I will continue to watch... I hope there are no more confabulations dressed up as history for the lay viewer Edit: I apologize just after five minutes. Disculpe, Disculpe, Maximus Disculpe

@erikwestrheim804 Ай бұрын

Up to its neck to driftsans then

@peggylanton6384 Ай бұрын

Weren’t the Egyptians horrified about this looting? Did they try to stop it?

@squidgert566 Ай бұрын

Almost everything that could be looted was looted already. Selling mummies to make paint pigment (mummy brown). Locals weren’t maintaining anything and well, they were occupied too.

@johng4093 20 күн бұрын

They were profiting off it.

@cejann3926 15 күн бұрын

They not only took mummies and burned them for fuel but they ate them as medicine too

@squidgert566 15 күн бұрын

@@cejann3926 “eating them” was apparently a European thing too, since Roman period. Imagine in 1000 years what people will think about our medicines.

@cejann3926 15 күн бұрын

Nice try But we aren’t looting grave sites to find corpses to grind down and eat

@MrBakedDaily Ай бұрын

Rediscover is where it's wrong 😂

@Jeshpii 5 күн бұрын

Of course the items should be returned to their home countries. Taking items to western countries was part of colonialism. No matter if the items were ‘gifted’ or ‘sold’, because of the power imbalance the trades can’t be considered fair, equal nor freely consented to. It’s up to the home countries to decided how and if they want to preserve their cultural items. To say another country knows better than them what their history is worth, is simply patronising and part of the infantalising colonialist mindset. Finally, I have seen plenty of mummies in Britain that are visibly rotting away because the damp climate is not suitable to preserving them 🤡

@mariolongtin8271 11 күн бұрын

And the only reason it took the English so long was because the Chrsitian religion suppressed history and ancient knowledge for almost 1,000 years - wild. The Christians and governments even spread myths of Giants when people asked about roman structures in England Napoleon had access to this information and he didnt care what the politcal and religious powers told him - he was against the supression

@Bernardd55 5 күн бұрын

Colonialism is alive and well.

@davefenney5704 Ай бұрын

How do you become an egyptologist? Like where do you send your CV, who pays your wages?

@McVet3 Ай бұрын

They're our best mates, but the Brits would of took back the pyramids if could 😂

@bassinc3039 Ай бұрын

Evolution is a thing.

@wetterwaldf 28 күн бұрын

What a big troll. With a very big ego

@an.oldham-lad 23 күн бұрын

Recovered ?? You meen stolen 😮😔

@jasonruetz2306 Ай бұрын

It's sad to see all the looted treasure still sitting in British museums as a national point of pride. It belongs to Egypt you greedy bastards, give it back already.

@LeeLong Ай бұрын

Agreed!!

@johng4093 20 күн бұрын

Nah, bad idea. Much of it was paid for or granted by Egyptian government in exchange for services.

@kristycornish6088 Ай бұрын

Why the pronunciation? How come we can’t just keep traditional pronunciation- it sounds so pretentious and weird

@JonnyDee-uh1eo Ай бұрын

Ancient Egyptians were White.

@cejann3926 15 күн бұрын

😂

@sinuheguzman9404 Ай бұрын

The title should be more fitting like : history of looting and colonization in Egypt... The only good thing this petty thieves did was at least document what they stole. One day all those museums will be almost empty, I'm hoping to be alive to see it.