More stories of average people, please. It's a really interesting look into their lives. We all know that Kings usually live well, but this stuff is fascinating.
Two separate comments I will weave together into a narrative worthy of Sinuhe: 1. These videos on everyday life are great! Please make them ten minutes long (at least!) and look at other professions. 2. I found the comment that a Pharaoh of the New Kingdom was the first to look upon the Mesopotamian rivers passing strange. I'm sure that is the first recorded account, but surely there must have been merchants, mercenaries, and miscellaneous Khemeti who found a way to the other end of the Fertile Crescent? Synthesis: please do a video on Egyptians who travelled and their views of other contemporary cultures!
It may surprise you just how much Egyptian trade relied on other people coming to Egypt! But there were a few notable expeditions and I definitely plan to cover them. And don’t worry I’ll not be running out of everyday occupations to cover.
great video. it really points out the sort of tragedy of being interested in history. these societies are so fascinating that without introspection it would be really easy to idealize them, but they would suck to live in with all those acts of massacre and what not. hopefully future generations will get to look at our acts of massacre as distantly as we look at the ancient egyptians
Maybe instead we should look more closely! And wonder why in all these thousands of years we haven’t learned how to make life less brutal for so many people.
They have the same root! I think the Egyptians got the name from Akkadian, which like Arabic is a Semitic language. Nahar is also “river” in Hebrew according to Wiktionary! That’s a nice connection.
This is not to say Ahmose was without bravery in the way we understand it (indeed no war could be fought without opposition), but he seems to have skipped any adversity in his posthumous account of his own career. Perhaps it was more in line with Egyptian customs of the age only to focus on the glorious outcome of daring and risk.
More stories of average people, please. It's a really interesting look into their lives. We all know that Kings usually live well, but this stuff is fascinating.
Two separate comments I will weave together into a narrative worthy of Sinuhe:
1. These videos on everyday life are great! Please make them ten minutes long (at least!) and look at other professions.
2. I found the comment that a Pharaoh of the New Kingdom was the first to look upon the Mesopotamian rivers passing strange. I'm sure that is the first recorded account, but surely there must have been merchants, mercenaries, and miscellaneous Khemeti who found a way to the other end of the Fertile Crescent?
Synthesis: please do a video on Egyptians who travelled and their views of other contemporary cultures!
It may surprise you just how much Egyptian trade relied on other people coming to Egypt!
But there were a few notable expeditions and I definitely plan to cover them.
And don’t worry I’ll not be running out of everyday occupations to cover.
Digging your channel.
great video. it really points out the sort of tragedy of being interested in history. these societies are so fascinating that without introspection it would be really easy to idealize them, but they would suck to live in with all those acts of massacre and what not. hopefully future generations will get to look at our acts of massacre as distantly as we look at the ancient egyptians
Maybe instead we should look more closely! And wonder why in all these thousands of years we haven’t learned how to make life less brutal for so many people.
iminto the slice of life stuff
Liked your video r-Dr=f ... I'm particularly intrigued by those blind harpist' lifes.
Well, at least they weren't fighting 90% nude greek vase style, though a linen kilt isn't much to write home about.
Ahmose son of Ibna : ua-cam.com/users/shortsM9IVGQkUWl0?feature=share
Nahrin in arabic mean 2 rivers could it be they meant land of the 2 rivers Mesopotamia?
They have the same root! I think the Egyptians got the name from Akkadian, which like Arabic is a Semitic language. Nahar is also “river” in Hebrew according to Wiktionary!
That’s a nice connection.
This is not to say Ahmose was without bravery in the way we understand it (indeed no war could be fought without opposition), but he seems to have skipped any adversity in his posthumous account of his own career. Perhaps it was more in line with Egyptian customs of the age only to focus on the glorious outcome of daring and risk.
I think you’re very likely right!
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Do one on the Nubian Medjay, the minority that the Egyptians made the police.
I did! ua-cam.com/video/HBJqQD2M3Fw/v-deo.html
See 9 World Chronicles about the Warrior Culture.
Aren't they about Viking gods?!
Boop
I bet you also discourage spending all my money on the lottery! But sure, I probably don't want to be a soldier in Ancient Egypt.
Unless you do it like this guy