History Re-Summarized: Egypt

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"Conquered not by a man, but a god." is a statement absolutely thick with historical weight.

‘Alexander the Macedonian twink’ I’m not sure if you admire the guy or despise him at this point but that is a powerful sentence

Every time I look at the Ptolemy family tree the geneticist in me has a mini heart attack trying to think of how to calculate the inbreeding coefficient

Egypt's history after the Pharaohs is equally fascinating

It's always astounding to think about how old Egypt is. There are around a thousand years between the old and middle kingdoms... then another 4000 until today

Wait, I'm confused. Where's the part where the pharaohs, his court, and their enemies battled each other with stone slabs that summoned monsters in a children's card game?

"Egypt is not a historic country , Egypt came first, then came the history" -Najeeb Mahfouz

I think not enough attention is paid in history classes to the fact that the NEW kingdom period is still as ancient to Augustus as the Rashidun and Charlemagne are to us. Egypt the culture is one of the most singularly ancient that we know of, so much so that the Afro-Asiatic language family the Egyptian language descends from is one of the oldest that linguists have been able to reconstruct, being estimated as having roots up to 10,000 years old. Not to mention how the alphabet I'm writing this in derives from Egyptian hieroglyphs, 𐑨𐑟 𐑐𐑸𐑖𐑩𐑤 𐑨𐑟 𐑲 𐑥𐑱 𐑚𐑰 𐑑 •𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑦𐑯𐑕𐑑𐑧𐑛.

Calling Alexander the Great “The Macedonian Twink” is the best quote I’ve heard out of this channel

All that discussion for a Pyramid Scheme joke. I applaud you.

I never had a problem with "upper and lower" since I always assumed it had to do with elevation and the direction rivers flow (aka downwards and towards larger and larger bodies of water)

2:40 the bent pyramid didn't collapse into itself - the one that did was the pyramid of Meidum, which was being built at the same time. Both pyramids were ambitious in that they tried to go for a much pointier elevation angle than the other pyramids that came before or after - but Meidum's collapse proved that you needed to go kinda squat or it wouldn't be structurally stable, so the builders of the bent pyramid got the news of what happened and went "fuck it, bent pyramid better than no pyramid I guess"

"conquered not by a man, but a god" is a fittingly dramatic and poetic line for Ancient Egypt.

"Do you understand the Ptolemaic Dynasty?" "Nah, it's all greek to me."

The pyramids of Egypt are square pyramids but d4s are triangular pyramids. However, since we haven’t burrowed under the Pyramids at Giza we can’t know for certain that they aren’t simply half-buried d8s!

My biggest takeaway from all this: the absolute mess of Ptolemaic intermarriage that Blue nearly had a breakdown trying to explain years ago is, somehow, less distressing than the nightmare that happened in the following two (or three, it's a bit hard to notate) generations. I can understand why he didn't talk about that at the time, though - after what discussing Ptolemys six to eight did to him, going into nine through twelve probably would have actually killed him.

Finally, Tomb Kings lore

I do really love how an entire language was discovered completely by accident

In addition to her trading relationship with Punt, Hatshepsut didn't kick around her affinity to use her pleasantly adorable smile to establish beautiful temples and immense wealth for Egypt.