Many thanks Niel, I will be posting more to this channel - I have a backlog of previous talks to upload once I get a break from giving new ones (details here: chrisnaunton.com/online-lectures/)! More soon!

Thanks for sharing your story David and for your kind comments! I'm not aware of there being any way of enlarging the red pointer but I will look into this, thanks for the suggestion! And I hope you do get to Egypt one day by the way - as I type I am on a boat on the Nile I can tell you it's very beautiful here!

Do you remember the name of that book? There are Bookfinders on line that can find almost any books with either author or Name.

Lovely to know, thanks Patricia!

Thank you!

Many thanks, much appreciated!

This is lovely to read, thank you! I have a few more of these talks recorded and ready to go and a few more in the pipeline. Watch this space!

Thanks for watching and for your contributions to the debate! Dr Zahi's suggestions are intriguing although Senenmut's tomb is not directly beneath Hatshepsut's temple of course - it's at a slightly lower level and a few hundred metres away along the temple causeway. I think I'd argue that the Hatsheput temple and Step Pyramid aren't directly comparable in terms of their setting (Deir el-Bahri cliffs versus flat plain), alignment (E-W, versus N-S) etc. As such there isn't any particular area around the Step Pyramid that would correspond to the location of Senemut's tomb unless just outside the pyramid enclosure, but then this is approximately the area under discussion here anyway, so I'm not sure Dr Zahi's suggestion really helps. On the famine stela I don't think the interpretation you describe is incompatible with what I wanted to say which was just that Imhotep had been remembered as the hero of the story, regardless of the nature of the story or any agenda of the creators. But it's not an interpretation I was aware of thanks all the same!

@@ChristopherNaunton I didn't know that about Senenmut's tomb, nor about challenges in comparing Hatsheput's temple and the Step Pyramid. Thank you for taking the time to clarify that. It must have been incredible to explore all those sites and to get the kind of direct experience that makes it easier to imagine what life in ancient Egypt might have looked like. Keep up the great work. ❤

@@BiancaAguglia Thanks again!

Glad you enjoyed it Luis, thanks!

Thank you!

Lovely to know, thank you!

I gather that a project is about to begin investigating some of these questions but I don't have any details as yet. It'll be very interesting to see what they find!

Glad you enjoyed it, thanks John!

That's good to hear! More talks on the way - Royal Mummies next, on 17/18 August ('scuse the plug)! chrisnaunton.com/online-lectures/

You're right! But Waseda University has beaten you to it - this is the area of the Khaemwaset monument - more here: www.egyptpro.sci.waseda.ac.jp/pdf%20files/AS/EA36KawaiYoshimura2.pdf

I’m not sure there’s much they can do in fact - they are excavating at Saqqara and uncovering lots of new material so I should think it’s more about how much media attention they direct that way - I’m sure there will be discoveries they can talk about if they want to!

Thanks for watching! I am hoping to do something on the whackier theories at some point - watch this space!

@@ChristopherNaunton great. I have been obsessed with all things Egyptian since childhood. At 17 we moved South and I went to London as often as I could afford. The British Museum was a revelation and after that it became lifelong. Did an A level in Classics and assumed studying Archeology in later life might be an enjoyable retirement. Life had other plans but I still listen and continue to feed my interest. I could never had foreseen how expensive Higher Education would become, I was privileged to chalk up degrees and diplomas before it got crazy. On the other hand, although I don't have more certificates, knowledge is easier to obtain than ever. I can listen to experts who just want to share their passion with the world for absolutely free. That to me is another amazing privilege - and pleasure.

I'm not aware of there being any evidence of casing stones that would have created a true pyramid as with the later monuments - if that's what you mean. The idea of building a true pyramid seems only to have come in later, and the Step Pyramid is not unique in being a monumental stepped structure of this era.

@@ChristopherNaunton I see, sort of a stepped mustaba except they used stones instead of mud bricks. Love your channel, thanks for the reply. Thanks to David Miano and gentlemen like yourselves I am enjoying learning with real facts and history. A breath of fresh air in the midst of all these alternative history buffs. Thanks

@@keithfitzpatrick4139 Glad you're enjoying the talks, thanks! More to come!

The quote comes from the Corpus Hermeticum, and is ascribed to the god Hermes Trismegistus who is speaking to Ascleius. It reads as follows: "“Take your ancestor, for example: he was the first to discover medicine, Asclepius." (see my slides, no. 36, with refs. here: chrisnaunton.com/searching-for-imhotep-links-further-reading/). So, Hermes Trismegistus is saying that Imhotep was Asclepius' ancestor, and the inventor of medicine. In ancient Egypt, Egyptian gods and goddesses often came to be merged or associated with Greek and other gods and goddesses e.g. Amun/Zeus, Thoth/Hermes and also Imhotep/Asclepius. Hope that helps clear things up!

Hi, and thanks, yes, the Faiyum has been suggested to me in the past and it's possible of course. There are other crocodile-related sites - Kom Ombo - that could also be considered on that basis but in my view Saqqara is still most likely.

@@ChristopherNaunton Hey, thanks for the reply :) really appreciate your content, I guess I picked there because it is the nearest fitting location to Saqqara that matches that description and the oasis was known as the oasis of Amun Ra (and there is an ancient oracle in the mountains not so far from it) and he was the high priest of Ra, all of which is of course meaningless since we have no idea of the actual source of the claim and how far back it dates before it was mentioned in writing so could of been just a rumor. The mastba you mentioned which is unique in it's orientation coupled with it's location is of course the current best shot but for many years I always kinda wished to find his tomb and intact filled with wonders such as paintings and models of his work, a foolish pipe dream maybe but you never know ;)

@@ChristopherNaunton It also occurs belatedly that the body could of been moved much later after having first been entombed at Saqqara

@@wynwilliams911 Yes, absolutely.

You are not the only one to think of Faiyum when hearing about crocodiles 😂 me too 🐊

It's not *impossible* that he was a brother of pharaoh but there is nothing either from his lifetime or from afterwards to suggest that he was. There is a well-known formula that was used by brothers of pharaoh to express this relationship, and the title 'the king of lower Egypt, the brothers' is not it - it's something else. So it would be difficult to argue that they were based on the evidence we have.

The concpt of Africa as a contient wasn't known then, also what do you mean kemite kushite ? He identitfied as Egyptian and their enemies at the same time ?

This IS BS. It's like 1500 years earlier - if Joseph IS a historial carácter at allí.

Even If so his tomb stayed behind

Nope most of Egyptian in old time and today are e

Well, thanks for your advice! In fact I have read the Bible but I don't recall any passages that would allow us to identify Imhotep with Joseph with any certainty. Could you refer me to the appropriate sections? In any case though, even if the identification were correct, would that help us to locate the tomb on the ground in Egypt? That's what's really of interest to me here :)

@@EasternRomeOrthodoxyhe Hebrews were back in Canaan well before Rameses (any of the thirteen) was born. Their assaults on cities in Canaan were recorded In Akhenaten’s Amarna letters. The reference in the Bible is to the city of Rameses, Pi-Rameses, the city built on top of the Hyksos capitol at Avaris. It is a geographical reference. They were a well established kingdom in 1208 when Merneptah invaded and, in keeping with Egyptian practice at the time, castrated all the male prisoners they took (recorded on a memorial stele that was written on the back of one of Amenhotep III’s) before withdrawing back to Egypt.

@@allangibson8494 Black? Black Israelites 🤣🤣🤣🤣And i am the first who said that Ramases II wasnt the pharoah of the exodus, and that it was in the 18th dynasty, so learn how to read, faceless bot lol

🤺☦🇷🇺Only uneducated f00ls would say such a thing lol. Amenhotep II fits perfectly with biblical timing and the fact that he hadn't had a 1st son to rule after (since he died in the plague as described in the Bible), and the same for his predecessor Tuthmose III (also his 1st son didn't). Hatshepsut was the 1st (we can even say the only) female Pharaoh, and her reign was a record of Egyptian power and prosperity, which was a blessing from God to her for saving and raising Moses, and she was Tuthmose I's daughter, whose reign's timing fits perfectly with the birth of Moses. Moreover, Hatshepsut's memory was intentionally attempted to be erased by Amenhotep II. Why? Atheist historians think maybe it's because she was a woman, but we who believe know it's nonsense, and it's obviously because of her being responsible for Moses existence - again, everything fits perfectly. Pharaoh's daughter could also be her sister Nefrubity, who mysteriously disappeared from Egyptian records, and only shown as a child with her parents on a stele, and thought to have died as a child, but she was the younger sister, so I don't believe it sits well with nursing Moses. So, the conclusion is, that it were Tuthmose I, Hatshepsut, Tuthmose III, and Amenhotep II during Moses' time and not just Amenhotep II. Also important to understand, that the historical mention of NAMES of places in the Bible, shouldn't be taken as if those names are necessarily the actual names for those places at the time period mentioned, but good be their future names, retrospectively described by God and the prophets, as the case with the rivers of Eden in Genesis that surround the lands of Cush and Havila: names of Noah's descendants who weren't even born in that time, and therefore, the cities Pithom and Rameses mentioned in the exodus as cities built by the Israelite slaves, shouldn't be taken as if it happened in the time of Rameses II, when those names first existed, but rather at the time were they were named Avaris etc., and that is why people mistakenly think the Exodus was in the time of Rameses II, because that's when those cities were re-built by THOSE names, but were already been built. Get education

@@EasternRomeOrthodoxy The Israelites were the cousins of the Hyksos who ruled northern Egypt as the 15th dynasty until the founder of the 18th dynasty (and last ruler of the 17th dynasty) drove them out. The Hyksos were referenced from the sixth dynasty as rulers of the Levant who gave tribute to the Egyptian pharaohs. The 31st dynasty Persian Artaxerxes and 32nd dynasty Macedonian Ptolemy’s were also called Hyksos. Egyptians were never stereotypically “black” anymore than anyone in the Middle East is. Nubians to the south of Egypt on the otherhand are seriously black - and a major impediment to any of the lighter Bantu tribes moving north or Berbers moving south (until the availability of camels in the third century AD permitted the bypass of their kingdom via Timbuktu).

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