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Spotlight Lecture: Consuls, Travellers, Spies
The French in Egypt, from Louis XIV to Louis XVI
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This lecture by Dr Philip Mansel provides a brief history of the French in Egypt. Initially, Louis XIV planned to conquer Egypt, if the Ottoman Empire collapsed, as unpublished drawings and maps by his spies and officers in Alexandria confirm. There were similar plans of conquest under Louis XVI. At the same time, French travellers, merchants and consuls could live in Egypt, due to the ancient alliance between France and the Ottoman Empire. M. de Maillet, the French consul, published a two-volume Description de l'Egypte in 1735 with prints of pyramids and mummified human remains. Other French travellers included the coin collector Paul Lucas around 1710, and the artist Louis Francois Casas in 1784. Thus, Egypt was already familiar to some Frenchmen before Napoleon Bonaparte's expedition in 1798. Bourbon interest in Egypt continued after the Restoration. Jean-François Champollion, who deciphered hieroglyphs using the Rosetta Stone, was supported by Louis XVIII, who died 200 years ago in 1824. Then his successor, Charles X, with Champollion's help, created an Egyptian museum in the Louvre Museum in Paris, called the Musée Charles X.
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Dr Philip Mansel's books include lives of Louis XVIII (1981) and Louis XIV (King of the World, Penguin 2019); Aleppo, the Rise and Fall of Syria's Great Merchant City (2016); Levant; Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean (2010), on Smyrna, Alexandria and Beirut; and Constantinople, City of the World's Desire (1995). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the Royal Society of Literature, and a founding committee member of the Levantine Heritage Foundation and the Society for Court Studies. He won The London Library Life in Literature award in 2012 and the Franco-British Book Prize in 2012.
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Spotlight Lecture: A Thousand Miles Up the Hudson
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The 1889-90 United States Lecture Tour of Amelia Edwards and Kate Bradbury Browse upcoming EES Spotlight Lectures and other events via our website: www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events.html From November 1889 through March 1890, Amelia Edwards gave over 100 lectures all over the northeastern US, and as far West as Chicago and Minneapolis, exciting interest in Egypt everywhere she went. Alongside her e...
Faience at Amarna: Old and new research into its brilliant manufacture and use
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This Research Lecture explores one of the EES-affiliated-projects by a member of EES staff. Browse upcoming EES Research Lectures and other events via our website: www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events.html This talk will look into some of the evidence for the production and use of tjehenet (Egyptian faience, lit. ‘brilliant’ or ‘dazzling’) at the Middle Egyptian site of Amarna. Multiple faience worksh...
Spotlight Lecture: The Fall of Egypt and the Rise of Rome
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Browse upcoming EES Spotlight Lectures and other events via our website: www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events.html The last three centuries of dynastic rule in Egypt followed the unexpected death of Alexander the Great. His general Ptolemy took power in Egypt and established a hybrid new Hellenistic-Egyptian monarchy, which combined Greek culture within the idioms and imagery of Egyptian pharaonic rul...
Excavation of a Roman Public Bath at Hermopolis Magna
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This Research Lecture explores one of the projects awarded a Heritage at Risk Grant, which was made possible by supporters of the Egypt Exploration Society raising over £10,000 in 2020. Browse upcoming EES Research Lectures and other events via our website: www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events.html This lecture will cover the archaeological campaigns conducted at the site of the Graeco-Roman city of H...
Shubra's Archive & Cairo's Tram: A Community Archive of a Changing City
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This Research Lecture explores one of the projects awarded a Heritage at Risk Grant, which was made possible by supporters of the Egypt Exploration Society raising over £10,000 in 2020. Browse upcoming EES Research Lectures and other events via our website: www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events.html The objective of Shubra's Archive is to preserve the oral history of Cairo's Shubra neighbourhood before...
Launch of the EES Walking Trail at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (January 2024)
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Watch the launch of the first-ever walking trail exhibition in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. Opened by HE Gareth Bayley, British Ambassador to Egypt, with Dr Ali Abdelhalim (Director of EMC) and Dr Carl Graves (Director of EES). The exhibition included new display panels for 12 artefacts discovered during excavations by the EES. The panels were curated by 10 early career Egyptian scholars who par...
Spotlight Lecture: Tutankhamun: Excavating the Archive
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This Tuesday Spotlight lecture within our wider theme of 'Wonders of Egypt' explores the most well-known sites and discoveries from Egypt by highlighting the aspects that are less known or often overlooked. Browse upcoming EES Tuesday Spotlights and other events via our website: www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events.html In 1922 the tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered at Luxor, the first known intact ro...
Spotlight Lecture: Egypt's Forgotten Wonder: The lost city of Ibn Tulun
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This Tuesday Spotlight lecture within our wider theme of 'Wonders of Egypt' explores the most well-known sites and discoveries from Egypt by highlighting the aspects that are less known or often overlooked. Browse upcoming EES Tuesday Spotlights and other events via our website: www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events.html Of all the wonders of Egypt, few could have been grander than the city of Al-Qata'...
Spotlight Lecture: Eclectic Elements of Egyptian Temples
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This Tuesday Spotlight lecture within our wider theme of 'Wonders of Egypt' explores the most well-known sites and discoveries from Egypt by highlighting the aspects that are less known or often overlooked. Browse upcoming EES Tuesday Spotlights and other events via our website: www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events.html Visitors and students of Egyptian temples are familiar with their core components:...
Spotlight Lecture: Tutankhartier: Tutmania in the 1920s
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This Tuesday Spotlight lecture within our wider theme of 'Visualising Egypt' explores the diversity and complexity of Egyptian art and how it has inspired contemporary artists. Tutankhartier: Tutmania in the 1920s as a Metaphor for a Society in Recovery from World War One Browse upcoming EES Tuesday Spotlights and other events via our website: www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events.html On November 26th...
Spotlight Lecture: Blueprints for Bureaucracy
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How the Egyptian Government Designed Settlements in the Desert to oversee Amethyst Mining This Tuesday Spotlight lecture finishes our wider theme of Traversing the Nile, exploring the varied travel and trade networks along the Nile Valley in both ancient and more recent history. Browse upcoming EES Tuesday Spotlights and other events via our website: www.ees.ac.uk/whats-on/events.html The desig...
Spotlight Lecture: Inspector Merer's logbook: Transporting blocks for Khufu’s pyramid
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This Tuesday Spotlight lecture within our wider theme of Traversing the Nile, exploring the varied travel and trade networks along the Nile Valley in both ancient and more recent history. Browse upcoming EES Tuesday Spotlights and other events via our website: www.ees.ac.uk/Pages/Events/Ca... In 2013, the archaeological mission of Wadi el-Jarf, on the Red Sea shore unearthed a set of papyri tha...
Being Egyptian - The Egyptian House 04
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These videos explore the ways archaeologists excavate and classify houses. How helpful are modern typologies to our understanding of experience in the past? How do they relate to practice, particularly the relationship between the individual and the state? Does variation within Egypt and beyond mean differences in social practice or are they result of local environmental and economic circumstan...
Being Egyptian - The Egyptian House 03
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These videos explore the ways archaeologists excavate and classify houses. How helpful are modern typologies to our understanding of experience in the past? How do they relate to practice, particularly the relationship between the individual and the state? Does variation within Egypt and beyond mean differences in social practice or are they result of local environmental and economic circumstan...
Discussion Panel: Ancient Egypt in 50 Discoveries
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Discussion Panel: Ancient Egypt in 50 Discoveries
EES TOP TIPS for writing funding applications
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EES TOP TIPS for writing funding applications
Spotlight Lecture: Up the Nile: A Thousand Ways to Go a Thousand Miles
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Spotlight Lecture: Up the Nile: A Thousand Ways to Go a Thousand Miles
Being Egyptian - The Egyptian House 02
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Being Egyptian - The Egyptian House 02
Being Egyptian - The Egyptian House 01
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Being Egyptian - The Egyptian House 01
Being Egyptian - Expressing home 03
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Being Egyptian - Expressing home 03
Being Egyptian - Expressing home 02
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Being Egyptian - Expressing home 02
Discussion Panel: Contemporary Art Interventions in Egyptian Collections
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Discussion Panel: Contemporary Art Interventions in Egyptian Collections
Spotlight Lecture: Deir el Medina community and the elite Theban Necropolis during the 18th dynasty
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Spotlight Lecture: Deir el Medina community and the elite Theban Necropolis during the 18th dynasty
Being Egyptian - Expressing home 01
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Being Egyptian - Expressing home 01
Digitising the Saqqara Sacred Animal Necropolis object cards
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Digitising the Saqqara Sacred Animal Necropolis object cards
Spotlight Lecture: Jewels of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Treasures from the Worcester Art Museum
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Spotlight Lecture: Jewels of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Treasures from the Worcester Art Museum
Spotlight Lecture: Egypt's Identity in her Islamic Arts
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Spotlight Lecture: Egypt's Identity in her Islamic Arts
Spotlight Lecture: Amarna - City of the Sun God: an exhibition recreating a dream
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Spotlight Lecture: Amarna - City of the Sun God: an exhibition recreating a dream
Spotlight Lecture: The Kandake Today: The legacy of Sudanese Hero-Queens
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Spotlight Lecture: The Kandake Today: The legacy of Sudanese Hero-Queens

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @Mark-j9d8r
    @Mark-j9d8r 11 годин тому

    I was going to watch then saw your thumbnail. No thanks. You're just another fraudulent so called "Egyptologist" portraying a Black African civilization as European or Arab. You are a liar and a disinformer.

  • @thegeordierambler4373
    @thegeordierambler4373 День тому

    Nope! It does not let us see in any other light! P*ss Poor.. and from a PHD?? It’s just incredible really! I am interested in the book on that point! But.. for a second hand copy on Amazon for under £5 p+p included of course!!

  • @cbritz123
    @cbritz123 2 місяці тому

    Glad I found these videos!!

  • @harryparkes4609
    @harryparkes4609 2 місяці тому

    Thanks Stephanie, great talk. You mentioned various colourants found in faience object but you didnt say anything about black. How would black have been produced?

    • @StephanieBoonstra_89
      @StephanieBoonstra_89 2 місяці тому

      Thank you, Harry. Do you mean for the black painted decoration on the decorated tiles and inlays? That would have been made with carbon black.

  • @Iammrspickley
    @Iammrspickley 2 місяці тому

    Great lecture about a wonderful find.... Thanks for the upload and sharing.

  • @robertfraser9551
    @robertfraser9551 3 місяці тому

    Outstanding. Really like the clarity on what we actually know ( not much in many instances ! )

  • @judithmartin6896
    @judithmartin6896 3 місяці тому

    Fantastic would love to heard more. Thank you.

  • @Iammrspickley
    @Iammrspickley 3 місяці тому

    Great lecture, super interesting, thank you for sharing!

  • @talamioros
    @talamioros 3 місяці тому

    Guy de la Bedoyere! Favourite Time Team Roman expert of all.

  • @Iammrspickley
    @Iammrspickley 3 місяці тому

    Great talk.... should've been two hours longer!

  • @bonniesteel5236
    @bonniesteel5236 3 місяці тому

    sorry, but i keep hearing a clicking or lip smacking noise that has made me unable to continue watching. it's just my ocd. sorry.

  • @silentbooks3879
    @silentbooks3879 4 місяці тому

    Thank you.

  • @jamesbarry1673
    @jamesbarry1673 4 місяці тому

    Speaking as a fellow dilatante, you know I kind of failed at the military and the law too lol

  • @jamesbarry1673
    @jamesbarry1673 4 місяці тому

    I have to say these two and you are my new favorite things about Egypt 😊

  • @MegaLivingIt
    @MegaLivingIt 5 місяців тому

    I admire him for being a rebel/Protestant of his time.🌿

  • @Dave183
    @Dave183 5 місяців тому

    The leading New Zealand intellectual, Charles Brasch was at Amarna from1933 to 1935. The experience had a profound impact on his world view.

  • @johnwillimas
    @johnwillimas 5 місяців тому

    first rate talk on a fascinating site.

  • @lievenmoelants
    @lievenmoelants 6 місяців тому

    I missed pictures and maps of trams and people and trajectories; a nice project but a rather "dry" presentation....

    • @minaibrahim5577
      @minaibrahim5577 6 місяців тому

      I am really sorry that the presentation did not match your expectations :) was just limited with the time to share glimpses of the partnership with EES. As The project outputs were mainly in Arabic and directed to Egyptian audience outside academia, sometimes it takes more effort to do these multi-layered ‘translations.’ Also the online presentations are usually tricky. Still, would be happy to have a call and share more “flesh” ☺️

  • @NiobiumThyme
    @NiobiumThyme 6 місяців тому

    I have always loved the boundary steele. It reminds me of Green Eggs and Ham. I will not place it for my wife I will not place it for my priests I will not place it here or there. Great presentation. Thank you.

  • @SunnyBeetle1922
    @SunnyBeetle1922 7 місяців тому

    I remember your wonderful excavating the archive exhibition in Oxford’s western Library in 2022. I loved it and made several visits so I could take it all in. It was wonderful to see Howard’s original notes and drawings and some of the original photographs that Harry Burton had taken. I was even lucky enough to get hold of a battered copy of the original 1927 Tomb of Tutankhamen book which I absolutely treasure🥰. I love the work of the Griffith institute and have been to their website many times. I’m amazed at the sheer number of photos Harry took, He was a meticulous cameraman and documentarian. We have so much to be thankful for that Howard Carters team did such a lot to preserve their findings in notes, photos, diaries and the careful preservation of objects. I will always be grateful to them as a lover of ancient Egypt, particularly the 18th dynasty and the reign of Tutankhamen and his predecessor Akhenaten. I’m so exited for the new more interactive website. It sounds fantastic😄👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽… Thank you for taking care of Howard Carters documents and preserving them for future generations. Do you have any more information about fundraising for the website upgrade? I would really like to show my support. Thank you 🙏🏽🙏🏽👑🏹🪃💛💛💛

  • @Ithinkthereforeiam-ph9nb
    @Ithinkthereforeiam-ph9nb 7 місяців тому

    17:00 The "Egyptian boy" -- black, African boy looks like young Tut, same bone structure, same skin shade, same hair type. The 1927 black African boy - was used because he REPRESENTS Tut RACIALLY

  • @Dr.Yalex.
    @Dr.Yalex. 7 місяців тому

    Thank you for your lecture. Enjoyed the info and images. Regarding young pharaoh "Tutan-khamun -- why do we continue to represent an African - dark skinned - person as an "European" ? Why do we continue to "white wash" African archeological findings?

    • @kevinkevin-ug9po
      @kevinkevin-ug9po 2 місяці тому

      @Dr.Yalex Where are you talking about? They have a picture of an Egyptian boy. The representations of different cultures including Nubians are a factor in many images. But in this talk it is an Egyptian boy.

    • @Dr.Yalex.
      @Dr.Yalex. 2 місяці тому

      @@kevinkevin-ug9po ancient Egypt was African black. 17:36 20th century Egyptian boy used is also African black. All of ancient Egypt was African, Nubians were darker black, a different variety of African black. Ancient Egypt had nothing to do with “white people“ - it was an African civilization started and maintained by Black people from Africa. Have a nice day.

  • @thejeffinvade
    @thejeffinvade 7 місяців тому

    I just came back from Cairo. Having looked at his golden mask in the face, he is just a minor pharaoh after his dad has lost the empire. Imagine the tomb of Ramses the great, intact.

    • @Dr.Yalex.
      @Dr.Yalex. 7 місяців тому

      Tut was buried in his stepmother's (Nefertiti) tomb. All of his father's/mother's belongings were buried with him - in order to end (and forever forget) the "Aten" god. So no, Ramses' and other pharaohs tombs were not as rich as that of Tuts. (FYI)

    • @thejeffinvade
      @thejeffinvade 7 місяців тому

      @@Dr.Yalex. Tut was Usurped by his chief minister and lots of his funeral objects were not even made for him. his stuff must be a lot stingier than earlier 18 dynasty kings, let alone 19 dynasty zenith king Ramses 2nd.

    • @yanina.korolko
      @yanina.korolko 7 місяців тому

      @@thejeffinvade I saw that film as well, lol But, I don't trust Hollywood much, as I lived in it. FYI - what I wrote comes from real books and real research, not made up films. Tut was NOT usurped. He passed away, and his half-sister-wife wrote to Anatolia to send her a husband as she was above marrying her "uncle" who was below her in stature.... do read more. Take care

    • @thejeffinvade
      @thejeffinvade 7 місяців тому

      @@yanina.korolko I didn't say he was killed. I said he is usurped. There is a difference. There was a theory that speculated Tut was killed, but MRI result has put that to rest. I don't know what film you are talking about, but I know Tut is a minor pharaoh and his funeral objects are quite poor based on historical common sense. You will have some common sense after you learn some basics......

    • @thejeffinvade
      @thejeffinvade 7 місяців тому

      @@yanina.korolko Bob Brier is a good place to start. I learn basic Hieroglyphs from his lectures. History of Ancient Egypt Bob Brier, Ph.D. Professor, Long Island University Decoding the Secrets of Egyptian Hieroglyphs Bob Brier | Professor These are pretty good basic lectures. You will get some basics just by listening to them.

  • @nadineodil7060
    @nadineodil7060 7 місяців тому

    terrible video..

  • @ttestates1
    @ttestates1 7 місяців тому

    Imagine having this type of evidence from TT320, The Royal Cache!

  • @cusmosakua-dubia
    @cusmosakua-dubia 8 місяців тому

    RUBIS that these whites perpetuate racism and feel comfortable in their lies. Egyptian are blacks truthfully and pharaoh were black dynasties

  • @OVTraveller
    @OVTraveller 8 місяців тому

    (April, 2024)visited Amarna in September 2023 as part of a boat trip from Cairo to Abu S. Had not realised that the bulk of the construction had been with mudstone, so 95 % of the 'town' had been removed, reused, destroyed, leaving few remaining stone rubble. Walked around looking and finding shards of pottery, all without any markings or indentations. Had the advantage of your lecturers/ books and historical analysis, Chris. Found the political/ social/ religious impact of the pharaoh on Egyptian social structure intriguing. Clearly forces were at work making life of his successor(s) problematical.

  • @thejeffinvade
    @thejeffinvade 8 місяців тому

    I am going to Egypt next week, great to getting to know the details before I go.

    • @TheEES
      @TheEES 8 місяців тому

      Do let us know if you are able to spot some of the features mentioned in the lecture!

  • @jonathanrichards593
    @jonathanrichards593 9 місяців тому

    Indeed, next best thing to being there. Great to have someone pointing out things that one might walk past, and explaining what we understand of their significance. Thank you!

  • @astronomics2023
    @astronomics2023 10 місяців тому

    how in the world can the Egypt Exploration Society put a video like this with hardly anything audible..what an embarrasment!

  • @fasfas8999
    @fasfas8999 10 місяців тому

    Excelent event good luck ! i have been twice Tell El Amarna

  • @BeeJay1948
    @BeeJay1948 11 місяців тому

    Me too. Wonderful !

  • @100HzJimmi
    @100HzJimmi 11 місяців тому

    Thanks for your work ;)

  • @blueravin2352
    @blueravin2352 Рік тому

    Great Presentation...If I had some extra money I'd spend all my time trying to discovering this stuff; what an exciting pursuit!👍❤

  • @lievenmoelants
    @lievenmoelants Рік тому

    I liked this very much!

  • @Louiseskybunker
    @Louiseskybunker Рік тому

    he shouldn't be anywhere near graven images

  • @RP-mm9ie
    @RP-mm9ie Рік тому

    Amazing😅

  • @kahmaleast7287
    @kahmaleast7287 Рік тому

    The Ancient people of Kemet was amazing

  • @unclescipio3136
    @unclescipio3136 Рік тому

    What a criminally underappreciated little video. Not enough ancient aliens or Graham Hancock, I suppose.

  • @Minptahhathor
    @Minptahhathor Рік тому

    The amount of whitewashing how tf is a euro in an african desert shirtless??? dont play with skin cancer boi.

  • @patriciatreslove4449
    @patriciatreslove4449 Рік тому

    Thank you so much for sharing, your work, it is very much appreciated.

  • @lesliejonesHAS
    @lesliejonesHAS Рік тому

    Thanks for a very interesting and informative talk. It's a journey that I hope to make one day.

  • @lauracyrantolak1678
    @lauracyrantolak1678 Рік тому

    Excellent presentation Dr. Sheppard. I feel the Nile calling!

  • @annascott3542
    @annascott3542 Рік тому

    John Pendlebury always strikes me as a super charismatic character it’s like the potency of his sprit was such that it still exudes from photographs taken of him that are almost 100 years old by now. A very charming individual, not too dissimilar to you, Chris. I can see why you’re drawn to him and his work; kindred spirits.

  • @marijaokic2427
    @marijaokic2427 Рік тому

    These are wonderful segments! I hope that you will be able to post a video or two of the whole sessions. Regards.

  • @marvinmartian6516
    @marvinmartian6516 Рік тому

    big misconception that statue 7:69 is actually pareidolia erosion does wild things seen something just like that on mars

  • @lievenmoelants
    @lievenmoelants Рік тому

    If they could not paint the elite tombs by lack of artistic accomplishments, how could they be able to paint the kings tombs? Must we not conclude that they were the builders, not the decorators of the kings tombs? Greetings from Aarschot.

  • @napoleonruss1528
    @napoleonruss1528 Рік тому

    I really can’t even watch this. The fact that he has a pale man with blond hair wearing African traditional attire If the thumbnails start with this false premise, the work is probably reflective of that.

  • @harryparkes4609
    @harryparkes4609 Рік тому

    Well done!