Thank you for putting together the statues with photos and history of her funerary monument. I, like many people, have been to both the museum and monument, but not seen them together that way.
Aside from having a cool name, kudos to Hatshepsut for being a powerful woman in that context. The zoomed-out view of the cliffs and Mortuary Temple was stunning. The random, jagged shapes of one against the ordered geometry of the other made it an amazing sight to behold. It was also a nice reminder that humanity has occasionally succeeded in bringing order to chaos, which was reassuring. :)
You can stay in the kneeling position for a lot longer than a minute or two. We do long chants in this position in Buddhist temples. But still, it speaks to the resect the Pharos had for the gods they would kneel like that.
When you eventually are finished carving out the sculpture from the granite you have to make another similar sculpture? my god! No wonder the Egyptians looked forward to their summer vacation
Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple looks like a building of the early 20th century AD. It does not look like the architecture of 16th century BC. There are many mortuary temples on the east side of the Nile River in Thebes. Hatshepsut's temple is distinct.
I often associate granite figures such as these with pre-dynastic Egypt. So now I'm confused -how did the dynastic bronze age Egyptians cut these granite statues with bronze tools?
Exactly. Hatshepsut was a new kingdom ruler. 1,500 BC. This artifact counters the notion of later Egyptians as mere inheritors of heirloom items who wrote graffiti hieroglyphics upon them. The rose granite statue is her statue.
Amazing ! And to think that wonderful statue was carved in granite! Any estimates on how long that would have taken? Granite is extremely hard and they were using sand to do this right?
Wish there was proper closed captioning on this (Auto-generated captions don't count as proper captions). I'm an art student who is deaf using this video as part of a reading assignment.
Hi Karl, Thanks for your comment. Our partner, Khan Academy replaces the auto generated captions with human corrected text. However, sometimes this takes a while. Hopefully this video will be dealt with soon.
Been up since 2015, I'm guessing it's taken care of as pointed out, since I already ran into 4 videos (usually linked from SmartHistory) that has not had manually entered captions yet so far this semester.
Kemet was actually Nubia. Several pharaohs during the intermediate period were Nubian, but they were not Egyptian, and were not considered so by the population. Not sure why people confuse terminology, but yeah.
@@Tsumami__ Also the ancient egyptians just like the nubians were native black africans (Namely groups such as ethiopians, somalis, sudanese, eritreans, beja's, fulani's ect). That were living in the nile valley region of north africa for thousands of years prior to other races invading the continent.
Can you imagine all the thousands of people to build these statues and this temple and all the thousands of hours they spent laboring to build it and all the love her people had for her only for her to die and the new ruler just decides she didn't exist and starts ordering you to remove her name from things and start tearing down her temple 😭😭🤮🤮
Fortunately, the temple survives entirely, unlike the Karnak Temple and the Luxor Temple (which were the sight of construction projects from dozens of Pharaohs, including Hatshepsut).
Many of the noses are broken due to defacement back in the days of Ancient Egypt or purely because of lack of maintenance. Not because of the archaeologists themselves, although some were broken accidentally or even deliberately.
Thutmose 3rd...hater and he wasn't fond of a woman ruling Egypt....so when he got his chance during his full reign he started to wipe out the name Hatshepsut...
There is not enough evidence to suggest Thutmose was hostile to Hatshepsut. His father died when he was young, so Hatshepsut was his primary parental figure (although he was definitely actually raised by servants or slaves, like most Pharaohs). If they hated eachother, why would Hatshepsut put him in charge of her armies? The defacement of her monuments is dated later in his reign, when he was co-ruling with his son.
Your snippets of art and history are so insightful. Thank you so very much.
Thank you for putting together the statues with photos and history of her funerary monument. I, like many people, have been to both the museum and monument, but not seen them together that way.
Aside from having a cool name, kudos to Hatshepsut for being a powerful woman in that context.
The zoomed-out view of the cliffs and Mortuary Temple was stunning. The random, jagged shapes of one against the ordered geometry of the other made it an amazing sight to behold. It was also a nice reminder that humanity has occasionally succeeded in bringing order to chaos, which was reassuring. :)
Art historians: "They built it against the wall to symbolize the entirety of their dynasty."
Egyptians: "Nah Bruh, It just looked cool."
Hatshepsut is fascinating!
Thank you!!!!
This channel is helping out a lot in art school
Wow would love to one day visit this gallery in the metropolitan museum of art.
Amazing speakers. Thank you!
You can stay in the kneeling position for a lot longer than a minute or two. We do long chants in this position in Buddhist temples. But still, it speaks to the resect the Pharos had for the gods they would kneel like that.
wow! incredibly insightful. i would agree that choosing the site and building materials show special attention paid to respecting a Pharaoh.
When you eventually are finished carving out the sculpture from the granite you have to make another similar sculpture? my god! No wonder the Egyptians looked forward to their summer vacation
Hatshepsut's Mortuary Temple looks like a building of the early 20th century AD. It does not look like the architecture of 16th century BC. There are many mortuary temples on the east side of the Nile River in Thebes. Hatshepsut's temple is distinct.
I often associate granite figures such as these with pre-dynastic Egypt. So now I'm confused -how did the dynastic bronze age Egyptians cut these granite statues with bronze tools?
Exactly. Hatshepsut was a new kingdom ruler. 1,500 BC. This artifact counters the notion of later Egyptians as mere inheritors of heirloom items who wrote graffiti hieroglyphics upon them. The rose granite statue is her statue.
Amazing ! And to think that wonderful statue was carved in granite! Any estimates on how long that would have taken? Granite is extremely hard and they were using sand to do this right?
Yes, these were thought to have been carved by abrasion, Its hard to imagine the time and effort.
@@smarthistory-art-history incredible
thank you for the insite
what is the thing that hangs below ancient egyptian chin?
+PAVAN KUMAR a false beard-a sign of kingship.
Wish there was proper closed captioning on this (Auto-generated captions don't count as proper captions). I'm an art student who is deaf using this video as part of a reading assignment.
Hi Karl, Thanks for your comment. Our partner, Khan Academy replaces the auto generated captions with human corrected text. However, sometimes this takes a while. Hopefully this video will be dealt with soon.
Been up since 2015, I'm guessing it's taken care of as pointed out, since I already ran into 4 videos (usually linked from SmartHistory) that has not had manually entered captions yet so far this semester.
It is an imperfect system. I will mention this to the folks at Khan Academy and see if I can get this fixed.
Bask in the Greatness of Africa! Kemet! Awesome Africans at their peak!
Kemet was actually Nubia. Several pharaohs during the intermediate period were Nubian, but they were not Egyptian, and were not considered so by the population. Not sure why people confuse terminology, but yeah.
@@Tsumami__ Kemet was egypt prior to the greek invasion. And Nubia was Kush.
@@Tsumami__ Also the ancient egyptians just like the nubians were native black africans (Namely groups such as ethiopians, somalis, sudanese, eritreans, beja's, fulani's ect). That were living in the nile valley region of north africa for thousands of years prior to other races invading the continent.
Well, that's a stretch. Just for clarification...
North Africans and Sub-Saharan Africans are two different races.
Can you imagine all the thousands of people to build these statues and this temple and all the thousands of hours they spent laboring to build it and all the love her people had for her only for her to die and the new ruler just decides she didn't exist and starts ordering you to remove her name from things and start tearing down her temple 😭😭🤮🤮
Fortunately, the temple survives entirely, unlike the Karnak Temple and the Luxor Temple (which were the sight of construction projects from dozens of Pharaohs, including Hatshepsut).
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Some noses broken in true YT explorers fashion. Smh
Many of the noses are broken due to defacement back in the days of Ancient Egypt or purely because of lack of maintenance. Not because of the archaeologists themselves, although some were broken accidentally or even deliberately.
Thutmose 3rd...hater and he wasn't fond of a woman ruling Egypt....so when he got his chance during his full reign he started to wipe out the name Hatshepsut...
False on all points.
There is not enough evidence to suggest Thutmose was hostile to Hatshepsut. His father died when he was young, so Hatshepsut was his primary parental figure (although he was definitely actually raised by servants or slaves, like most Pharaohs). If they hated eachother, why would Hatshepsut put him in charge of her armies? The defacement of her monuments is dated later in his reign, when he was co-ruling with his son.