History Summarized: Hatshepsut
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"Even 3500 years ago there was still at least a thousand more years of history that people saw as worth saving"
Jeez, Egypt is old. I forget how staggeringly old it is compared to most other civilizations and it always amazes me.
And yet westerners always think that we live in pyramid and travel by camel :)
Only small children would ever think that people live in the pyramids.
You've never talked to a real westerner have you?
@@daughter-of-loki1062 now i have to ask, what IS a real westerner? dumb people exist all over the compass.
I mean someone who's actually from a western country.
"Learning his A, B, squiggle"
Lost it.
So did I!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
They're called hieroglyphs
I actually know some hieroglyphic and I can confirm, our boy really just said a b *n*
Not really that funny, honestly
@@aurelia8028 800+ people have liked the comment, so I’m afraid that you’re in a small minority, and that you’re simply a hater and a loser
I don't know if this is true but I recall reading somewhere that once you are forgotten in the land of the living you cease to exist in the afterlife, so I'm just imagining all the Pharaohs chilling in their special VIP club section of the afterlife when BANG
*Hatsheput kicking open the doors of the afterlife in silk robes dripping gold while foghorns blare in the background:* surprise bitches
Red Snowflake u probably just read the same Tumblr post as I did
Daniela Dengucho yeah probably but we all know how factual tumblr is 👍🏿
She sounds like Charlie.
Daniela Dengucho Can you link the post?
I think you're thinking of the movie Coco and the day of the dead concepts. :)
Ok true story and this just happened minutes ago. So I'm in class waiting for it to start and all of a sudden I hear "Hey I love those guys!" behind me. Apparantly my political science prof. watches you guys!
And everyone clapped.
Who hurt you??
@@AncientHoplite So young, yet so cynical.
@@AncientHoplite not everything is r/thathappened you know?
@@lizardlegend42 lies
Last year I did a paper comparing Hatshepsut and Akhenaten's ruling styles, and came to the conclusion that she was definitely a better leader. This is due to the fact that she didn't piss off the Egyptians for about 2 generations because she destroyed their culture to instead make her the supreme all power god-like-figure, which inevitably went wrong and her son to apologise on her behalf. As well as NOT doing that, she strengthened Egypt's connection with the surrounding civilizations and this enormously benefited Egypt economically, cultrally and socially. Long story short, she was really cool. I got 100% 😉
Lexie Sharpie Akhenaton was the constantine in his age, but not a successful one.
if i ever have to write a paper here i come
@Yuwan Well, Constantine was only ratifying a situation that was already there (by his time there were already a lot of christians around and greek-roman paganism was receding), IIRC Akhenaton instead basically invented a new religion out of the blue and tried to impose it to a population that was perfectly fine with the old one.
Bruh, saying you were a better ruler than Akhenaten isn't saying much
I think the real difference between Constantine and Akhenaten is, that Akhenaten's change was revoked just shortly after he died, while Rome definitely kept up the trend of becoming more and more christianized.
So there you go:
d i f f e r e n c e
Also, in Egyptian Mythology, your existence in the afterlife depended on people remembering you in the present. So the whole un-personing was a way bigger deal than it seems ; later pharoes tried to remove her from existence.
To be fair, from what I've gathered later pharaohs tried to remove any previous pharaoh. It was a common practice. Unless I'm wrong about that...
I doubt that, given that the erasure of Hatshepsut's name and images is described as exceptionnal. If it happened for every pharaoh we would have almost nothing on any of them.
So it's like COCO?
This makes Atem’s sacrifice in Yu-Gi-Oh way more metal IMHO. He was willing to potentially ERASE himself from existence PERMANENTLY just so he could keep Zorc down as long as possible.
Also, depressing idea for y'all, imagine the surviving sacred guardians having to expunge all mention of Atem’s name from historical records, with this knowledge in mind. Imagine Seth having to do that. By their belief system, it would have been like killing his cousin, whom he himself describes as his dearest friend, for a second time.
Between this an Ankhenaten, it's like the standard operating procedure for problematic Egyptian royalty was "destroy every record of them and claim credit for their successes." I wonder how many of these lost pharaohs we just don't know about thanks to this.
Jacob Driscoll There is a list of pharaohs written during Ancient Egypt times, but we can’t be sure if it has everybody in it. What’s weirder is that Hatshepsut wasn’t put in it while another female Pharaoh from an earlier dynasty was.
Exactly...think of everyone before the 1st one supposedly, or in between!!
Drix Malone how little we know is extraordinwarily staggering. What's even more so, is the fact that while we are constantly travelling forward in time, and it becomes more and more likely for it all to be permanently lost to history.
Glad you covered Hatshepsut, she often gets the shaft in favor of Cleopatra in Egyptology. Perhaps you could do episode on Nefratiti sometime in the future?
Agreed
(Sees new video)
(Realized it relates to the next class period for western civ)
*unholy happy screeching*
I think "dumpster fire of a family tree" is probably the best description of the Ptolemaic dynasty i've ever heard.
That's so fucking accurate. :'D
Either that or it was just a bowl spaghetti
Hatshepsut is an interesting case herself. So is Egypt's burial rituals, having your heart in a jar is...weirdly cool.
who do they think they are? Collecting their jars of hearts?
Having a phylactery before it was cool. Dem Ancient Liches.
SamuraiFighterChick actually that was the only organ they kept IN the body
Every internal organ except the heart was removed- the needed their heart for the afterlife.
Wasn't it needed for weighing against a feather? Did they need it for something else?
Ancient egyptian advisors- Holy horus! we need to restore the temples and organized the trades ties to get money!
Other egyptian guy- but or pharaoh is just a kid..
Hatshepsut- don't worries guys, just give me the beard I can handle it
- actual conversation when Hatshepsut decided to become pharoh recorded in a stone tablet somewhere, completely and 100% accurate no questions
“It’s okay; I’ll strap on the beard, do up my eyeliner and go shirtless for pictures. No one will ever know the difference.”
Petition to make 'give me the beard' the new 'hold my beer'
I'm imagining a game called "Give me the beard" styled after "Give me the Brain!"
Hey. A ruler who doesn't ever wear a shirt gets a thumbs up from me. Committing to the bit when you, yourself have some bits of your own deserves respect.
Just Some Guy with a Mustache Really? Thought you only posted on videos about anime. Quite a surprise seeing you here.
Just Some Guy with a Mustache This is one of my favorite channels and it thrills me to see you even here. 🤣
Ikr
Sorry for butting in, but do we know that Egyptians at the time thought there was anything sexual about tits? I'm seriously not trying to make this about modern day body politics, I'm genuinely just curious because the culture around clothes is woefully often overlooked when I hear history discussed.
@@helenanilsson5666 No idea but I think it's unlikely. In the Old and Middle Kingdoms women wore a linen dress that (typically) started just below the bust and came down to the ankle. They had 2 shoulder straps that were wide enough to cover (or partially cover) their breasts. In some paintings there are women that have a dress that has 1 diagonal strap holding it up instead but the paintings also depict the dresses as clinging to the body when in reality they would have been a bit looser (linen isn't elastic) so that may have simply been artistic license.
If I remember correctly the importance of being remembered after death can't be understated in ancient and even some modern Egyptian culture and the destruction of Hatshepsut's name could almost be called a murder as you would almost literally be killing their spirit. which makes it all the more terrible that it was done to her.
Fascinating
Age of Mythology music is always a win!
I KNOW. So many good memories.
Instant clock!
While he was still learning his a,b,squiggles. Best line from best girl blue 😂
@@ash-ne6zs adorable.
"Best girl" is an anime thing. Repurposed, gender doesn't matter anymore.
Red is Best Girl.
Blue is Best Boy.
I mean blue has stated he is straight so he I'd say male sorry
@@callumfootitt5366 I dunno if sexuality has any account for gender
Yay, more Egyptian stuff!
Also, two days after this, my local store had a program about Hatshepsut showing and I mentioned some of the info from this to the cashier. Tonight I went back in and the guy was amazed that the stuff I mentioned was also in the program. Of course I told him about you!
I remember learning about her! I was so fascinated as a kid because all of the other pharaohs were male and as a little girl I was was so taken with the idea that a female could wield so much power and just as well (if not better) than her male counterparts! I think my brother even checked out books on Egypt for me because I became so obsessed.
Yep she's interesting and one of the few rulers (of either gender) who is notable for her accomplishments in peace instead of war. Another that comes to mind is Casimir III of Poland who was one of the few to earn the title "the Great" for his diplomatic skills instead of through war (though his reign wasn't entirely peaceful).
That's so wholesome and adorable
Ok, I already watched it, and it was awesome, congratulations! :D
Hatshepsut is one of my favourite pharaohs/Egyptian characters, and obviously, she deserves it. I mean, her name even survived the damnatio memoriae!
I only have to add that it would be cool to know more about her daughter Neferure. I investigated, but I don't know what happened with her
I think she was basically taking on the queenly duties while her mother and half-brother took on the pharaoh's duties. Egyptians were big on duality and the need for a balance of masculine and feminine energies so when Hatshepsut took on the masculine role, they needed someone to fill the feminine. As the eldest daughter of the former queen and Thumose II, she was likely the best and only candidate for that job.
BadgerPride89 Totally agree. Actually, she was also Hatshepsut's heir. The problem is that she suddenly "died" and we don't know what happened with her :o
Well, technically, Hatshepsut's heir was Thumose III, part of the point of a co-regency is to establish the line of succession- the unusual part was that the older member became pharaoh after the younger. I believe there were plans to marry Neferure to Thumose III and make her queen in that capacity but like you said, she died young and we don't have records of her having a kid by him or marrying him as far as I can remember. Arguably, her death is the reason Thumose had to go around establishing his and his heir's credentials by defacing Hatshepsut as it meant the superior bloodline claim was lost to both of them (ie, Hatshepsut and Neferure were the daughters of pharaoh and the queen, as was arguably Hapshetsut's mother, while both Thumose and his heir were descended from 'lesser' women).
BadgerPride89 Neferure was around 18 when she died, but probably she couldn't marry Thutmose III. But there are some theories that said that Hatshepsut Meritre (Thutmose wife) was actually Hatshepsut's daughter
Ancient Egyptian proto-archaeology is fascinating: their notion that “ancient is holier” had them going after ruined temples and restoring them to try and get to the true primeval religion
Agreed
I heard about this woman several times before and I never bothered to look up her history, so thanks for explaining it here in a time saving format.
I'm not sure if you do Requests but honestly??? It's worth a shot.
Have you ever considered a doing a video on Akhenaten and Egypt's Amarna Period? I don't know about you, but I find it incredible that an entire Civilization's Pantheon can be virtually overwritten in one Pharaoh's 17 year reign, as well as entirely switching the Civilization's Canon after having it been somewhat consistent for almost 1800 years.
also just doing an episode on the Amarna Letters would be interesting
Agreed - an amazing situation with a great "cast" of characters.
For many years, egyptologists theorized that following the death of Thutmose II, Hatshepsut 'usurped' the throne from Thutmose III. Although Thutmose III was a co-regent during this time, early historians have speculated that Thutmose III never forgave his stepmother for denying him access to the throne for the first two decades of his reign. However, in recent times this theory has been revised after questions arose as to why Hatshepsut would have allowed a resentful heir to control armies, which it is known she did. This view is supported further by the fact that no strong evidence has been found to show Thutmose III sought to claim the throne. He kept Hatshepsut's religious and administrative leaders. Added to this is that the monuments of Hatshepsut were not damaged until at least 25 years after her death, late in the reign of Thutmose III when he was quite elderly. He was in another coregency, this one with his son, who would become Amenhotep II, who is known to have attempted to identify the works of Hatshepsut as his own. Additionally, Thutmose III's mortuary temple was built directly next to Hatshepsut's, an act that would have been unlikely to occur if Thutmose III bore a grudge against her.
After her death, many of Hatshepsut's monuments and depictions were subsequently defaced or destroyed, including those in her famous mortuary temple complex at Deir el-Bahri. Traditionally, these have been interpreted by early modern scholars to be evidence of acts of damnatio memoriae (condemning a person by erasure from recorded existence) by Thutmose III. However, recent research by scholars such as Charles Nims and Peter Dorman has re-examined these erasures and found that the acts of erasure which could be dated only began sometime during year 46 or 47 of Thutmose's reign (c. 1433/2 BC). Another often overlooked fact is that Hatshepsut was not the only one who received this treatment. The monuments of her chief steward, Senenmut, closely associated with her rule, were similarly defaced where they were found. All of this evidence casts serious doubt upon the popular theory that Thutmose III ordered the destruction in a fit of vengeful rage shortly after his accession.
Amenhotep II even claimed that he had built the items he defaced
Huzzah for one of the most badass women in history. Her mortuary temple complex was one of my favorite architectural marvels to study in the (extensive) Egyptian Artwork unit in a high school AP Art History class.
*didn’t realize there were two people on this channel* HOLY CRAP IM OBLIVIOUS WELP
Clap.
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Well done. Well done.
It’s not uncommon. If you like me, found this channel through one of Red’s videos and also don’t check the channel page for new videos.
+Squiddles Ink
Hahaha, you're not the only one. It took me a while to figure out Blue was here too. 😝
Knowing that a lot of artwork in egypt has a lot to do with the afterlife,it sounds incredibly cruel for her image to be erased...
AtomicBunnytron *_O O F_*
at least we know of her now!
thank god you did a video on hatshepsut... everyone only knows cleopatra (not a bad thing but? lol) and this is just an amazing video
I love reading deep into the insanities of Egyptian myth and philosohpy, especially the Time stuff. Makes me feel like playing Elder Scrolls again...
How about that. I was just playing Oblivion before watching this vid. XD
Great Video, Blue! I absolutely love this channel, personally I think you guys are one of if not the greatest youtube channels.
She was an amazing leader! This video is awsome, i admire your work:)
OH MY RA!
I'm going to see it in a few minutes, but I already love it
The ancient Egyptians knew that not having a beard was a great burden. We should learn from their wisdom and have beardlessness awareness campaigns. We have looked away for far too long. Many people are not able to grow a sufficiently magnificent beard. Even worse this genetic disease disproportionately affects women which are horribly oppressed by society. The government should provide everyone affected with a prosthetic beard! And everyone should confront their beardless friends about this disease. Go to them and tell them: You don't have to suffer this. You don't have to live like this. With modern medicine you too can have a proper beard!
Thank you, Robert. You've truly earned your epithet.
We should invest in making real Belts of Dwarvenkind.
Thou shalt not cultivate around thy face what grows naturally around your bunghole.
There have been women with beards, magnificent, full, luscious beards. They were mistreated worst than women without. I think we're good, my beardlessness is just fine for now babe. However, if hairy faced women begin to take over the world, i'll look you up.😋😋😋
ger du
Your Swedish doesn't really make sense though, is there a different language you'd be more comfortable with?
I love the use of the Age of Mythology music!
We were just learning about Hatshepsut today!!
Ancient Egyptians were great at recording history as it happened... and terrible about revising it to better suit their self-image.
Marduk so are modern Americans., Chinese, Chrstians, etc.
Thank you for this history lesson! :D It's nice to hear the name of someone people tried so hard to erase; Hatshepsut was a BOSS.
Hatshepsut has been probably my favorite Pharoah since I learned about her courtesy of the Civilization games! These are really cool, could you do a History Summarized on the Anasazi in the Southwestern US?
Gosh I love Hatshepsut's story. All hail Her Majesty, the King.
This isn't the only time that Egypt has tried to forget a pharaoh ever existed. I think they did the same thing to pharaoh Tut's father Akhenaten, though in his case he tried to change the Egyptian polytheism to one of monotheism based around himself. I think...
John I think it is based around the Sun.
Not himself, just a minor spirit called Ra-Horus-Aten for short which was a merging of two gods and an aspect of Horus.
It was pretty weird.
I think you're right. Also I had to edit my original post, Pharaoh was misspelled and it was driving me crazy...
Ironically Thutmose III also became an extremely competent ruler...but he was a warrior pharaoh, to the point where some people call him "The Napoleon of Ancient Egypt".
Apparently while Hashepsut was ruling Thutmose, after finally "graduating preschool" was training in the army. When Hashepsut died, Thutmose took an army to Megido - which is where we get "Armageddon" from - and conquered the heck out of it. Thr guy's first campaign was almost literally the Battle of Armageddon and he won.
It wasn't all war and conquest though. Thutmose III was a patron of the arts, had several buildings constructed much like his predecessor did, and even kept a botanical garden.
And of course, he was smart enough to know that by controlling the past you can control the present and future.
Egypt lucked out with it's rulers here, honestly. Two high rolls in a row.
Thanks for the background!! Miss AOM..
This was my first ever OSP video! 2 years later and this is still one of my favorite channels
I’m actually doing a presentation on Hatshepsut, so this was a really convenient upload! Thx
I love this vid cause Haty is my favourite pharaoh of all time and I studied her for ancient history my final hs year
2:30 I recognized that music immediately (at this point, at least; I realized a bit later it had been playing for the whole video) and it made me so happy.
finally someone speaks about harshepsut
We learn about her in school all time in Egypt
Age of Mythology music! Man, that brings back memories...
Yay new video!
First
I finally commented! Also, Egypt! Also, temples! Also, "A, B, squiggles!" 😂
I remember watching a documentary about the attempt to uncover and identify Hatshepsut's body. I remember when they were comparing different mummies and then discovered that the tooth found in the canopic jar containing her liver matched with one of the four mummies they were considering. Since then I've loved learning about her.
love the map style, papyrus and lapis. nice
I love that he uses the age of mythology soundtrack
Thutmose iii was also quite a very interesting pharaoh he conquered the levant and never lost a battle in his life
I learn more on here then i do in school.....ITS BECAUSE OF THESE VIDEOS I EARNED AN A+ ON MY FINALS!!!!
MOAR VIDEOS PLZ!!!! I listen to ur videos while play wow and it is my favorite way to pass time, my love for learning history + my love for wow equals binging through ur videos quickly I enjoy ur stuff keep it up!
There isn't much proof of Senenmut and Hatshepsut having relations, however there is a pretty famous bit of scandalous graffiti of the two of them in copulation in a cave near the mortuary temple Djeser-Djeseru at Deir el Bahri. So it was even rumored during her reign. We'll never know of course but gossip is always entertaining.
Eh, graffiti could just be graffiti. Like, you can't please everyone all the time and it could be that some dude/lady jut did that bc they didn't like her. Then again, there seems to have been an increase in her masculine presentation as time went on so perhaps it is reflecting that.
BadgerPride89 Not everyone approved of the Pharoah Queen. But do a little bit of research on the subject. There are plenty of documentaries that highlight this.
Edit: Also, had this graffiti been discovered by anyone they would have probably been executed or at the very least punished severely.
Have done research on the subject, it's the basis of my opinion. We can't know what the people who made it were thinking; you offered an explanation that rumors were circulating about the two being lovers and the graffiti reflects that. I offered another explanation that someone simply didn't like her or him and chose to graffiti the walls with that scene. He was disliked because of all the power she was giving him, a lowborn man, no just because he was supposedly sleeping with her. Could be both ideas, could be neither, we'll never really know. People do silly/stupid things sometimes no matter the legal consequences.
BadgerPride89 I'm well aware of the history or I wouldn't have commented in the first place. But I'm not going to argue semantics with you, especially on UA-cam. Erroneous graffiti or not. I'm well aware of the history between the two and that many did not approve of them, regardless of the supposed relationship they may or may not have had or the position of political power he was trying to gain via her favor. My original comment was not asking for a debate nor did I offer one. This is not a battle of who knows more because quite frankly neither of us knows the truth nor will any professional scholars. The truth is lost to us. Even Blue stated this. Probably to avoid this very thing.
If future historians stumble upon Obama x Hillary satire, will that make them think the two had an affair?
Is that age of mythology I hear in the background, sold
This is problematic. They didn't try very hard to erase her. We have examples of Egyptian royalty that were erased from history. Her name wasn't erased from everything, her temple was simply taken apart (not destroyed), and they didn't do a very good job of chiseling her off her monuments. We have examples of brutal erasures from history. Hatshepsut wasn't one of them. Take King Tut's wife, who we know ruled after his death. We know nothing about her after Tut died save two things: we have a ring that says she married the high priest (which had fallen into a crack in Tut's tome, so it was easily overlooked) and we have a letter she sent to a foreign king saying she wanted to marry one of his sons (and that she was afraid.) That's all we have. There's nothing on her in Egypt, besides that ring. She was brutally wiped out of history.
Ray White
Thats actually really creepy.
Like why did they do the things they did if not to erase her from history? Obviously with the example you gave they weren't trying to do that and also even though Blue says its because they wanted to give credit to their predecessors over and over again did they really think no one would notice Or were they just stupid and careless? Also why would they tear apart the terrace piece by piece? We have no answers for any of these eerie actions.
Ghostbl33d - This is an issue that takes more in-depth knowledge on the subject and not a wiki perusal. Hatshepsut was the eldest daughter of the great wife. In Egyptian royalty, the royal blood was passed on through the female. The theory was that you might not be able to tell who the father was, but it's hard to miss who the mother of a child is with it coming out of her and all. This is the reason for Egyptian incest. The eldest daughter of the great wife is what made a Pharaoh. To compare this to the Ptolomies is ridiculous. Regardless, she had a daughter and her hubby had a child with one of his lesser wives. These two eventually married. The problem was that her hubby was very sickly so few people believed he was the father of either child. To further compound the issue, when he died, Hatshepsut took regent. This was unusual. The mother of the next Pharaoh would've been the one who took regent (the theory that the mother's power derived from her son so she'd protect him.)
This led to his shakey claim and was probably the reason Hatshepsut was able to be coregent for so long. After her death, it's thought that he erased enough of her monuments to make a *point* and when he got the legitimacy, he stopped. They were peaceful co-rulers. He actually controlled the armies and could've dethroned her at any time.
Here is another queen that was erased. You've heard of Nefertiti (her daughter would marry King Tut and go missing eventually too)? She was married to a very controversial Pharaoh (at the time) who tried to make Ancient Egypt a monotheist religion with the worship of a sun god. She outlived her hubby but she vanishes from the record completely. We know she must've reigned but there's absolutely nothing on her.
All I'm saying is that Ancient Egypt knew how to erase people. They did it all the time. Erasing people from the historical record was an actual punishment in ancient times. It was called 'Damnatio memoriae' in ancient Rome. To leave Hatshepsut's personal temple (the red one, not the one mentioned in the video) intact, just deconstructed, is very telling. If he'd wanted to erase and destroy her, he would've destroyed that.
Ray White
Yeah I wasn't disagreeing with you i was just saying how its kinda creepy for them to do all of that without a solid reasom we know is certain.
Ghostbl33d - Sorry. xD I'm an Ancient Egypt nerd and love to talk about it. No offense meant. :)
I don't know if it's creepy. It makes sense we'd see little evidence of a person back then, time is enough of an eraser for history - add motive to it and the fact that it'd be easier to "erase" someone back then and we likely know paltry amounts of the truth in regards to the big picture. We know a lot of history, but there'll always be more of it undiscovered or gone for good than we can understand (like an iceberg below the surface). The internet is putting a halt to these blindspot trends, our present times - when eventually added to the annals of history - will dwarf what people in the future will know of the past in other eras.
Hatshepsut was always my favorite pharaoh. I remember learning about her in elementary school and always admiring her. I loved your video, you and red should consider doing an anime style (like your characters) manga book about famous periods of history. I vote for Hatshepsut!
You guys are back! Now get Red to start warming up her drawing hand. ;P
Journey to the West Part 5!
Love the Overwatch reference :D
Love your Videos, a lot of effort is obviously spent on them. Keep up the good work!
Egyptology is one ofy favorite subjects to learn about! The history and mythology of this culture never ceases to amaze me! Completely unrelated, would it be possible to do some abridged videos on the works of H.P. Lovecraft? I would love to hear you both narrate what you've read!!
I have heard of Hatshepsut a bit before and did some research on her but that was a LONG time ago. I was so thrilled that you did a video of her Blue. \(^o^)/
0:00 Intro
1:31 Thutmose I (father) & Thutmose II (Half-brother & Husband)
2:30 Regent of Thutmose III (stepson) & declaring herself Co-Pharaoh
4:18 Extensive building programs
5:52 Trade relations
Jeff Francois Champollion (Egyptologist who figured out how to decipher hieroglyphs)
Thanks for the video :) I love Egyptian history and I would have studied it if it weren't for the "I need to get a job" thing. But it remains my hobby.
In fact we had her mummy since 1903, Howard Carter opened the tomb KV60 and found two mummies, an anonymous one with no jewelries or gold, and the mummy of a woman, Satré, Hatchespout's nurse. So they brought back Satré and ditched the other mummy on the ground.... It was the mumy of Hatchespout ^^'
She was probably buried with her father in another tomb, at the beginning, but then her step-son relocated his great-father and put his mother-in-law in the tomb of a servant XD
Apparently, from the analysis of the mummy, she died at 50, with a cancer of bones with multiple meta-stasis, but it's an abscess in teeths that killed her. And she was probably obese at the end ^^'
Holy shit Blue you talk so much slower then Red.
Put the video on 1.25
Is that a good thing or a bad thing? xD
No clue. XD
It's funny for otherwise they sound quite similar, how they tell somethings, the comments they make things like that
I love this channel
I am eary for the first time
Please do a hades and Persephone video
The Age of Empires music in the background is beyond nostalgic, and so relaxing 😌
The worst curse you could ever visit on someone in ancient Egypt was to never say a person's name again and erase their image from the records. A name had power, a name told a person's story, so when you say their name they're remembered they live on in their idea of the afterlife, so to never say their name again, basically meant they would disappear like Bing Bong.
Oooor, the egyptians were too necrocentric, and just gave too much shit about what happen after they die, meaning that erasing someone from history, is technically erasing it's existence.
If the Egyptians where right about that stuff there must be a horde of angry erased Pharaohs popping up in the afterlife demanding satisfactions. Someone should make a skit about it.
YEEEEES. YEEEEEEEEEEES
I am so happy this video was on my recommendations because I remember reading about her in my freshman year of high school and I really liked her! Thank you for this!
I wish this video was around last year when I had to do a project on her
The fact that you're using the soundtrack of age of mythology makes this video 1000X better XP
As others have pointed out, I had a gush of positive feelings hearing Chocolate Outline from Age of Mythology while you talked (though the music was maybe a little loud over your voice). I also loved the "learning his A, B, squiggles" line. Pretty great.
thank you for making this I had to write an essay on her at school and this made her story make way more sense keep the great work up!
Ahhhhhh! I’m so excited! I commented on another video and it was already here!
Age of mythology in the background. Love it
"She became Pharaoh through unconventional means..."
That's usually the start of a good story, though often not one about a good leader. (No offense, but "unconventional" rarely means "legal"...even if it qualifies as "not illegal" in this case.)
he literally said that it was legal 2 seconds later
I mean, she did build over some of her husband’s temples but that’s just the average norm for pharaoh
not necessarily, unconventional just means out of the norm. For example, if a president was assassinated, that would qualify as unconventional circumstance for the VP. And of couse, at this time a woman being a leader of a country in of itself would be considered unconventional.
Its not like you have the massive internet and book repositories to figure out how to run the country
Dontbea Hero yea,its not she had thousands and thousands of years of history to learn from or anything, you're totally right 😂😂
"If I could form coherent thoughts, I'd be SO ANGRY!" needs to be a t-shirt.
yeees!!!! I love her story, I'm literally jumping in my seat right now
Oh my word, that’s the Egyptian music from Age of Mythology!
A, B, SQUIGGLES
Thank you so much for doing this, I've got a project on it soon and this will help for the basics.
Love your stuff Blue
Great video as always.
By the way, Blue, could you please make a video about the Ancient Celts?
You guys should make a video for the whole Demeter/Persephone/Hades thing.
Based on the background you gave, Hatshepsut pretty much had to be exceptional to become Pharaoh, because otherwise nobody's gonna go for the borderline blasphemy (or maybe not even borderline, I don't know my Ancient Egyptian religion well enough to know just how bad a blasphemy that would be) of the embodiment of Horus being a woman for anything less than exceptional. I suppose she could have been exceptional in a corrupt, "I promised the right people power" kind of way, but especially in light of what she's known for, it makes a certain kind of sense. Obviously we don't know exactly how it went down, but imagine this:
Hatshepsut: To do the big things we need to get done, I need to be pharaoh, not regent.
Priest: What?! That's not right, that doesn't make sense! BLASPHEMY!!
H: Buddy, hold on, haven't I been good to you? I just want to restore and build a bunch of temples, and bring in trade to enrich all the temple coffers!
P: Look, you're right, you've been good so far, so maybe we can overlook this blasphemy if you just drop it.
H: No, no, I've thought it through, look, I don't have to be the literal embodiment of Horus, I can just be... co-pharaoh... and maybe a symbolic embodiment of Horus or something. Look! I'll dress like a man, totally symbolic, in total piety, I won't be fooling the gods or anything, just... a humble stand-in so I can do a job for them.
P: Well...
Like I said, we don't know how it went down, and it might not have been thinking like this at all, but it easily could have been that this conversation essentially played out over a period of years, giving us the Hatshepsut we know now. Maybe she sold the priests on her being co-pharaoh by arguing that her massive project of temple construction and other things for the gods themselves were being held back by her inability to perform certain symbolic administrative and religious duties. But the overarching point is that it makes sense that she was a pretty great pharaoh because that's one of the few ways that anybody would tolerate her being pharaoh.
Jacob Johansen Excuse me? How can a comment be soooo long?
Ralph Ize, it just has to be interesting-enough for its length. But, based on your response, I don't expect *you* to have read it.
Well, I mean, when you're a fully grown woman with a proven track record of getting shit done and your only competition is a five year old boy who can't perform all of the religious rites necessary to ensure the Nile's yearly flooding or ensuring that the Chief God, Amun/Amun-Ra, was reborn everyday, eventually something's going to give. There is an interesting theory out there that there was some kind of palace intrigue that prompted Hatshepsut to take action to protect her stepson's throne (his queen would be her daughter, fyi). It's only a theory since Egyptians really didn't write down that side of things but yeah. Initially, no one seemed to have a problem because she's shown as basically herself, dressed in feminine garb, etc. There is even a myth created to explain her extraordinary circumstances- honestly, go look it up, it is a fascinating piece of propaganda- and her initial reigning names fully embrace her as the feminine piece of Ra and merge her with Ma'at, a female concept of justice, truth, and order. But over time, her statues and reliefs become more masculine and warnings are put out about how to speak about the pharaoh, etc, so it's likely that people were willing to play along while they had a boy pharaoh but once he grew up, people started questioning why she hadn't stood down yet.
YES NEW VIDEO!
I'm glad I found this! In history we're learning about ancient Egypt.
You guys have been doing a lot with ancient egypt
The Age of Mythology music is bringing back so much nostalgia
The Age of Mythology music still throws me off every time.
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You left out the fact that I’m Eyptian mythology they believed that if there was no record of you in this life, then you are erased from the next (I’m ptetty sure that’s true, but don’t take it for 100%) if so, then they weren’t only trying to erase her from history, but also trying to completely wipe out her existence in both worlds.
Allie i was about to say the same and the that is horrible honestly
Wait, so you're hanging out in the afterlife and you start to fade out like Marty McFly when people erase records of you?
The Economics Detective kinda? Probably like that
Shite joke warning but unfortunately happened:
A few years back I had the good fortune of going on a Nile river cruise and as you do I went on the tours of the historical monuments along the route, we went to Karnak and other big important structures.
Around about halfway through the cruise we stopped off and spent a very hot day going to different tombs and one of them was the funerary complex they talked about here. We were given a guided tour but I got distracted by what looked like a restoration of the site, mainly as it was brightly coloured whilst the rest was dulled by time and the sand, later found it was an installation so that people could have an approximation to what Hatshepsut would have been depicted.
I was taking pictures and the tour guide said what I later found out was "I see you have found the recreation of Hatshepsut?"... now this isn't what I heard as I had my camera out and I wasn't paying attention I only heard the last word Hatshepsut said quite quickly, I'm sure by now you see where this is going.
Taking the picture I, as a typical well mannered Englishman, think that the man had sneezed so I said "bless you"... the tour guide was not impressed.
I love that fire effect
I found out about this lovely lady through a school project and she instantly became a favorite of mine. :)
I’ve always loved Hatshepsut!!!!
She was just hit with an ancient case of SCP-2111.
It's what happens when you spend 300 years fighting the Daevas, they use some rather unorthodox weapons.
Bless you!