But dont this just prove that the bible is a mixuture of true history and lies created by a fictious race called jews...they were never enslaved...nor were they around when the pyramids were built...not to mention europe..
indeed they werent slaves. they were all family to the second most powerful man in all of egypt. they built the pyramids as tombs for the pharoahs who they saw as powerful, great, kind, and understanding leaders. once joseph died and Ramses the 1st took over with his greed and and lack of care for human life, saw the israelites as an opportunity to put his legacy in the top spot of history. he enslaved the people who had willingly served egypt so that he didnt have to worry about them leaving.
@Japheth19 but to ensure that the israelites didnt rebel against him, he slaughtered all of their firstborn sons. through this act he unknowingly ensured the collapse the egypt he had built with his mark. if he hadnt enslaved the israelites, he wouldnt have had killed the firstborns, so that moses' mother would have to ship him off down river to protect him from egyptian soldiers, and egypt would have most definately remained one of themost powerful monarchies to this day but nope - epic fail
Moses, that lying bastard. "Let my people go" lazyass bailed from work and took people with him. this also proves that exodus was a total BS, well all religious texts are BS so i guess i'm not surprised
lol, the pyramids during the old kingdom where built by eqyptians (before the time of Moses), and they built them out of stone, whereas in the time of moses, they where using bricks for different forms of architectural designs. Also, earning a meal is less then getting paid for work, it was a necessity.
Do you even understand the difference between writing system and a spoken language?
The WRITING SYSTEM was forgotten. The LANGUAGE wasn't. Pronunciation of ancient Egyptian wasn't mere guesswork. There is a modern survival of the language that allowed pronunciation of the ancient one to be deduced.
As for your anti-Semitic rant, that's just idiocy.
dont we know more about the writing system than the pronunchiation
and how do we even know that its the same pronunciation or even the same languadge
explane this to me
i want to know as a edgicating moment (this is not a pissed of tone btw)
ove what a cupple hundred years look at the drastic change between enland dialect and pronuciation and even spelling and our own (america) over a cupple thousand years that turns lattin into spanish
That's a big subject. To sum it up, there's *some* guesswork and reconstruction involved, yes. But languages change in regular ways that can be predictable when you know enough about them. Knowing how a language changes allows you to "wind back" to a previous era, especially when we have the writing. Lots of our funny English spellings reflect actual pronunciation of centuries ago, for instance.
So just like we can "wind back" modern Indo-European languages to discover what Proto-Indo-European must have been like (some of our English words are *very* old) we can take the different Coptic dialects and wind them back to see how they were pronounced in earlier millennia.
The Rosetta Stone already represents a very late stage of the language, and it alone cannot tell us how (for instance) Khufu talked. But we can get a lot of insight from these other linguistic techniques.
In that case, Egyptian never died either. It's been spoken to the present day, although it hasn't been a day-to-day language since the 1600s. (In that sense, it survived longer than Latin.)
The *written* language was forgotten. After about the 4th century, no one knew how to read hieroglyphs anymore, and that's where the Rosetta Stone contributed. However, the language continued to be used, written in the Greek alphabet, and so it is to the present day.
haha, just thought I had to say that since every NG video I watch seems to have comments bashing religion, even when the video is completely unrelated.
Building mounds of rocks out in the desert... what a waste of time. Interesting to study nonetheless.
You are misinformed. It's a dead language in the same sense that Latin is, but in this case it died only a few generations ago and a form of it is still used as a liturgical language. It's called Coptic. Yes, the writing system was lost, but one reason we know how to pronounce it is because people still know Coptic.
Nonsense. Even if you believe the literal Biblical account, the pyramids are Old Kingdom and the Hebrews were enslaved during the New Kingdom. There's a gap of over 1,000 years between the two.
Quite fascinating...definetly changes certain perspectives about who built the pyramids. But Egyptian history spans a long time...I'd be interested to see the dating data for this dig (wouldnt you?), in order to put into context a possible introduction into (or out of) slave labor use for construction. But at least this evidence show a lack of exclusive use of slave over the time domain of ancient Egypt.
I had those same types of thoughts. This video in its abridged context doesn't give enough information. Although the evidence shows that not all were slaves, it does not mean that some weren't. Also, if it's proven that they didn't use slaves during one Pharaoh's reign, it doesn't mean it didn't happen in all the others. Slaves were treated much differently in Africa and the Middle East than how we think of them, today. It will be interesting to see what comes out from this study.
There's nothing new here. It's been known for a long time that the laborers who built the pyramids were paid. Farmers had little else to do during the time of the Nile flood, and would have been glad to earn a little extra something.
completely false. anglo-america and the west are still foolishly pushing that the ancient Kemetians looked like them. Egyptians of today are not even connected to the Ancient Kemetian (People of Kemet a.k.a Egyptians)
They didn't look like white people as the re-enactments suggest here, for certain. Egypt was more of a melting pot. Many would have looked like what we consider today to be 'black', though some were a little lighter than that with a simply dusky complexion.
Absolutely right! I'm taking an acient Egypt course right now, and Egyptologists are finally coming around to the fact that these people were African. First people came out of Somalia and Ethiopia. It only makes sense....Kemet is in Africa!
I don't think they looked anglo, I think they looked Middle Eastern, or at least the rulers were of Middle Eastern decent. If you notice on the tombs, they show race quite clearly, and their art suggests that very black Africans were considered foreign.
There WERE black pharoahs though, NatGeo did a special on them, it was really neat! :]
Yes. The Coptic alphabet is variant of the Greek alphabet containing a number of extra letters for sounds not found in Greek AND the extra letters come from the Demotic form of the Egyptian script The Coptic alphabet came into being during the 3rd century BC after the Greek conquest of Egypt and the subsequent spread of Christianity
I may very well be roughly y(ignorant) knowledgeable to Egyptian/Kemet culture but i do know when you seize another culture, much is left behind. No hard feelings
But dont this just prove that the bible is a mixuture of true history and lies created by a fictious race called jews...they were never enslaved...nor were they around when the pyramids were built...not to mention europe..
awakenme1 6 months ago
If we built another pyramid that would solve the unemployment PROBLEM =).
squelchdown 7 months ago
indeed they werent slaves. they were all family to the second most powerful man in all of egypt. they built the pyramids as tombs for the pharoahs who they saw as powerful, great, kind, and understanding leaders. once joseph died and Ramses the 1st took over with his greed and and lack of care for human life, saw the israelites as an opportunity to put his legacy in the top spot of history. he enslaved the people who had willingly served egypt so that he didnt have to worry about them leaving.
Japheth19 11 months ago
@Japheth19 but to ensure that the israelites didnt rebel against him, he slaughtered all of their firstborn sons. through this act he unknowingly ensured the collapse the egypt he had built with his mark. if he hadnt enslaved the israelites, he wouldnt have had killed the firstborns, so that moses' mother would have to ship him off down river to protect him from egyptian soldiers, and egypt would have most definately remained one of themost powerful monarchies to this day but nope - epic fail
Japheth19 11 months ago
They had a designated job for beer making....THAT'S AWESOME!
CordDragonzord 2 years ago
amazing!
sngwidmepnoy 2 years ago
incredible show.. well done NAT-GEO channel.
kissmybuttdimple 2 years ago
stop fighting over religion NO ONE WILL WIN
i think you should be consentrating on the fact the at we fail as a advanced species
come on realy they not only dettected the brain canser they took it out and he lived for 2 years
we can bairly do that now
how does that work realy gosh damn we need to wory more about unifying our knowladge and andvancing than starting a war over petty diffrences
btw im christen and a bad speller so help he me God you commet on my spelling
i am a great student!
squirrelspown 2 years ago
Moses, that lying bastard. "Let my people go" lazyass bailed from work and took people with him. this also proves that exodus was a total BS, well all religious texts are BS so i guess i'm not surprised
sarkerm2 2 years ago
lol, the pyramids during the old kingdom where built by eqyptians (before the time of Moses), and they built them out of stone, whereas in the time of moses, they where using bricks for different forms of architectural designs. Also, earning a meal is less then getting paid for work, it was a necessity.
LivingSacrifice888 2 years ago
Do you even understand the difference between writing system and a spoken language?
The WRITING SYSTEM was forgotten. The LANGUAGE wasn't. Pronunciation of ancient Egyptian wasn't mere guesswork. There is a modern survival of the language that allowed pronunciation of the ancient one to be deduced.
As for your anti-Semitic rant, that's just idiocy.
lytrigian 2 years ago
dont we know more about the writing system than the pronunchiation
and how do we even know that its the same pronunciation or even the same languadge
explane this to me
i want to know as a edgicating moment (this is not a pissed of tone btw)
ove what a cupple hundred years look at the drastic change between enland dialect and pronuciation and even spelling and our own (america) over a cupple thousand years that turns lattin into spanish
lattin into french
with the movement and people q^?^p
squirrelspown 2 years ago
That's a big subject. To sum it up, there's *some* guesswork and reconstruction involved, yes. But languages change in regular ways that can be predictable when you know enough about them. Knowing how a language changes allows you to "wind back" to a previous era, especially when we have the writing. Lots of our funny English spellings reflect actual pronunciation of centuries ago, for instance.
lytrigian 2 years ago
So just like we can "wind back" modern Indo-European languages to discover what Proto-Indo-European must have been like (some of our English words are *very* old) we can take the different Coptic dialects and wind them back to see how they were pronounced in earlier millennia.
The Rosetta Stone already represents a very late stage of the language, and it alone cannot tell us how (for instance) Khufu talked. But we can get a lot of insight from these other linguistic techniques.
lytrigian 2 years ago
In that case, Egyptian never died either. It's been spoken to the present day, although it hasn't been a day-to-day language since the 1600s. (In that sense, it survived longer than Latin.)
The *written* language was forgotten. After about the 4th century, no one knew how to read hieroglyphs anymore, and that's where the Rosetta Stone contributed. However, the language continued to be used, written in the Greek alphabet, and so it is to the present day.
lytrigian 2 years ago
Christianity is bullshit...
haha, just thought I had to say that since every NG video I watch seems to have comments bashing religion, even when the video is completely unrelated.
Building mounds of rocks out in the desert... what a waste of time. Interesting to study nonetheless.
GuppyPal 2 years ago
i find this facinating
thank you -?-
squirrelspown 2 years ago
No, and neither was the spoken form of Egyptian, although it had come to be written in Greek letters and had many Greek loanwords.
lytrigian 2 years ago
Latin has never really died.
It is the root of most European languages, and is used verbatim in medicine.
A person who knows what Latin words mean can accurately guess what other words mean, just from the similarities.
3martijns 2 years ago
"Died" for a language doesn't mean "forgotten".
lytrigian 2 years ago
You are misinformed. It's a dead language in the same sense that Latin is, but in this case it died only a few generations ago and a form of it is still used as a liturgical language. It's called Coptic. Yes, the writing system was lost, but one reason we know how to pronounce it is because people still know Coptic.
lytrigian 2 years ago
Beer? give me a break.
mockingarab 2 years ago
They spent their whole lives building their graves....Pretty sad.
jinglemybells262 2 years ago
Paid for by Egyptian Tax payers, not their graves, their gods graves.
mockingarab 2 years ago
ahh i see. I take it back then.
jinglemybells262 2 years ago
The Egyptians used Jews to build the pyramids!!!! It was the Jews who built the egyptian structures!!!!
bluheavn7 2 years ago
Nonsense. Even if you believe the literal Biblical account, the pyramids are Old Kingdom and the Hebrews were enslaved during the New Kingdom. There's a gap of over 1,000 years between the two.
lytrigian 2 years ago
hawass needs his throat slashed from ear to ear for his lies in black people!
Steadno 2 years ago
Surprisingly there are no advertisements in this video.
jgkdhj 2 years ago 7
slaves...lol
chanman486 2 years ago
The people of Ancient Kemet were black Africans!
mya570 2 years ago
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mya570 2 years ago
They were paid, but their dental plan sucked so bad they may as well have been slaves.
BinkieMcFartnuggets 2 years ago
Ancient Egypt Rocks!
CHAS1422 2 years ago
Quite fascinating...definetly changes certain perspectives about who built the pyramids. But Egyptian history spans a long time...I'd be interested to see the dating data for this dig (wouldnt you?), in order to put into context a possible introduction into (or out of) slave labor use for construction. But at least this evidence show a lack of exclusive use of slave over the time domain of ancient Egypt.
PariahOlympics 2 years ago 4
definitely not
wonca 2 years ago
I had those same types of thoughts. This video in its abridged context doesn't give enough information. Although the evidence shows that not all were slaves, it does not mean that some weren't. Also, if it's proven that they didn't use slaves during one Pharaoh's reign, it doesn't mean it didn't happen in all the others. Slaves were treated much differently in Africa and the Middle East than how we think of them, today. It will be interesting to see what comes out from this study.
tofuEtr 2 years ago
There's nothing new here. It's been known for a long time that the laborers who built the pyramids were paid. Farmers had little else to do during the time of the Nile flood, and would have been glad to earn a little extra something.
lytrigian 2 years ago
very cool!
fairy20tails 2 years ago 2
completely false. anglo-america and the west are still foolishly pushing that the ancient Kemetians looked like them. Egyptians of today are not even connected to the Ancient Kemetian (People of Kemet a.k.a Egyptians)
mefilmmaking 2 years ago
They didn't look like white people as the re-enactments suggest here, for certain. Egypt was more of a melting pot. Many would have looked like what we consider today to be 'black', though some were a little lighter than that with a simply dusky complexion.
Shadowflare00 2 years ago 8
Absolutely right! I'm taking an acient Egypt course right now, and Egyptologists are finally coming around to the fact that these people were African. First people came out of Somalia and Ethiopia. It only makes sense....Kemet is in Africa!
mya570 2 years ago
I don't think they looked anglo, I think they looked Middle Eastern, or at least the rulers were of Middle Eastern decent. If you notice on the tombs, they show race quite clearly, and their art suggests that very black Africans were considered foreign.
There WERE black pharoahs though, NatGeo did a special on them, it was really neat! :]
Lost4ubabe 2 years ago 2
Both your premise and your conclusion are false. Have a look at the people who still use the Egyptian language. (They do exist.)
lytrigian 2 years ago
The people who "use" Egyptian language are merely guessing. And yes wHo exist???
mefilmmaking 2 years ago
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lytrigian 2 years ago
Yes. Look up "Coptic".
lytrigian 2 years ago
Yes. The Coptic alphabet is variant of the Greek alphabet containing a number of extra letters for sounds not found in Greek AND the extra letters come from the Demotic form of the Egyptian script The Coptic alphabet came into being during the 3rd century BC after the Greek conquest of Egypt and the subsequent spread of Christianity
I may very well be roughly y(ignorant) knowledgeable to Egyptian/Kemet culture but i do know when you seize another culture, much is left behind. No hard feelings
mefilmmaking 2 years ago
thats pretty interesting that this was not just slave labor that built the pyramids. instead they wre well paid employees.
psychodelicdragon 2 years ago 9