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  • I want this video on my Speed phone.

  • It is actually really close - to my unexperienced hears ^^ - to the Classical music of Thailand.

  • Your video is a favorite on Mexico City

  • AWESOME

  • @Hikkomori013 egyptians revered the southern african lands, not the near east. there were several nubian/egyptian dynasties before the first united egyptian empire. the push to (re)unite egypt always came from the south. archaeological evidence doesnt support a significant sumerian influence.

  • @Hikkomori013 the egyptians themselves wrote that their culture came from the south. semites were at war with egypt since ca. 1800 B.C. native nile valley people were not "semite". and semite by the way is only a family of languages that include arabic, aramaic, assyrian and hebrew language.

  • Egypt is a diverse country, we have Nubians and we have Beja people and they're both black and have been here for thousands of years, it's only normal that there will be paintings depicting them. Only 23% of the Egyptian population carry the Arab gene (hJ). I'm the descendant of an ancient Egyptian mummy that was found a few kilometers outside Hurghada, I know this because me and my relatives did a test in the Ain Shams University. My skin is light brown, not black, just like most Egyptians.

  • @Vulkaye waauw that sounds so amazing that you discovered that D:

    but how exactly do they discover where your orgini comes from when your at that kind of place ?

    i would also like too know where my origins lies :)

  • @SkyGirl105 They were doing tests in the Ain Shams University in Cairo, they were trying to match the DNA of the mummies they had found after a major excavation and me and my cousin volunteered and it turned out both of us were related to one of the mummies. :)

  • @Vulkaye very amazing :D did they also provide information about those mummies ?

    like what kind of work they did or stuff as far as they knew :) ?

    aah i wish i could also find out where my ancestry came from xD

  • @SkyGirl105 No, they didn't tell us anything about that., only that it was very likely that they were farmers. We did not get any information about the other tests they did on the mummies.

    I've heard you can do DNA tests at the hospital to find out what ethnic group you really belong to but I guess that depends on what country you live in.

  • @Vulkaye ow thats too bad they dident told D=

    yeah true, i could do that, but indeed have to check if it is posibble in my country ;)

  • @SkyGirl105 It's probably possible if you live in North America, Europe or Japan. :)

  • @Vulkaye yeeey okay thanks for the info :D 

  • @SkyGirl105 no problem. :)

  • @Vulkaye : Hey man , i'm Egyptian too , how can I do this DNA test ? to know more about ancient roots ?

    and where we bekam :P

  • @oOoKhaledoOo I don't know if they're still looking for volunteers, try searching on Google (bl 3arabi tab3an). :)

  • Egypt is a diverse country, we have Nubians and we have Beja people and they're both black and have been here for thousands of years, it's only normal that there will be paintings depicting them. Only 23% of the Egyptian population carry the Arab gene (hJ). I'm the descendant of an ancient Egyptian mummy that was found a few kilometers outside Hurghada, I know this because me and my relatives did a test in the Ain Shams University. My skin is light brown, not black, just like most Egyptians.

  • You've made some fantastic music and videos. Humanity has gained so much in the 'modern era'... and has lost immeasurably more. Thanks to you, I can hear an echo of what the ancient world sounded like. Thank you!!

  • Who cares what race they were? They were human and one of the greatest ancient civilizations, all that matters.

  • Not all ancient Egyptians had an afro. BTW some of them had natural blonde or foxy hair. It was mysterious and amazing nation, damn we can't travel in time!

  • The egyptians were light skin black people with medium brown skin and some came out DARKER or LIGHTER but they were still BLACK AFRICANS! NEVER WHITE or ARAB. Infact they were even kinky haired becaue they would shave off their afros and wear wigs!!! This is in the Jewish Bible because the Jewish bible talks about how the black egyptians looked down on the hebrews because they didnt shave their afros

  • I'm fascinated by ancient Egyptian History.

    I love the Egyptian paintings, showing some folk with dark skin and others with light skin. Is it possible, due to the Greek and Roman influence, that some paintings were those of white skin inleu of dark skin?

    Oh. The paintings where men wear their "briefs" with the one long part hanging

    down within the middle of the brief as to hide...something very special? No puns, but I still wonder. Yes, I'm white and have nothing to hide.

  • @lairbear2000 Ancient Egypt was a collection of Semitic farming villages brought together under the influence of early Sumerian traders to form a country in the Nile delta. This spread along the entire Nile valley to become the cosmopolitan empire of the Classical Period. The pictures show the people as they were; some light, some dark, some in between. For the time, it was a big place which had absorbed a lot of countries

  • @Hikikomori013 Yeah just like the negroes in america some light some dark sand some in between

  • Love the melody plus the art!

  • Wow! An ancient piece of music ...

    ... and yet, people are talking crap about race and ethnic origin (most of which so far is nonsense, incorrect, and probably made up on the spot)

  • I'm half Nubian and I'm tired of ignorant black americans coming in and piggy backing off others' identities. They came from West Africa. Heritage is about blood and culture, not race. And even though Egypt is next door there has always been an ethnic split between Egypt and Nubia. This is well know. Ancient Egyptians were not black.

  • @Pharoah7400

    Actually, the jews are the true eygptians. Even the bible says so

    Exodus 2:19

    And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.

    And when you look at the tombs of Eygpt, you can CLEARLY SEE that they are jews.

    ayselamm

  • @ImalHasan Ah so the Jews were actually Black people...interesting!

  • @malfini1

    Sure! When you look at the images of ancient Eygpt, cant you see that they are jews?

  • @ImalHasan well they're Black like the ancients!

  • @ImalHasan well they're Black like the ancients! The Bible doesn't claim Jews built the pyramids. According to the bible the Israelites were engaged in brickmaking using clay, hardly the stuff used to build pyramids

  • @ImalHasan The jews were nothing but transients in Egypt. They claim to have built the pyramids, but modern archaeological evidence shows the workers were free men by and large. Jews were nothing in Egypt. If anything, I bet the Egyptians civilized the jews before Moses took them to Caanan.

  • @ImalHasan funny lol!

  • @ImalHasan funny lol!

  • @Pharoah7400 Actually my fake half Nubian friend ancient Egypt was Black. Its the Arabs and others who are piggybacking! and if heritage is about blood and culture African-Americans have every right to claim Egypt!

  • @malfini1 Who are you to call me fake. And yes you're piggy backing you FAKE Egyptian African-American. West Africa is 2,000 miles from Egypt. How you figure you're brothers. West Africans were living in the stone age when the Egyptians were building pyramids--yet these Afro-centrists have the balls to claim the same heritage. West Africa is where you came from. Go the F back to Ghana and find some bush hut to celebrate there.

  • @Pharoah7400 What is with this racism? African-Americans will ALWAYS claim Egypt, Mali, Songhay, the Zulu nation, and other great African empires as our own because of the oppression we have faced and the lies about us having nothing but huts and jungles as a black race. We know very well, Africa is not a country and that it i='s inhabitant by 1000's of ethnic groups, but in the Americas, there is no Nigerian, no Egyptian, no Kenyan, no Libyan. It's just BLACK! Ever heard of the 1 drop rule?

  • @Pharoah7400 And before you get riled up because you have an issue with the fact that the Egyptians were a mixed racial group in their ancient days, why don't you read African history that isn't distorted by racist lies so you can understand that West Africans have as much place in world history as any other ethnic group. Shit, west african music is the mother of pop culture today. Billions of dollars generated w/ the help of our ingenious creative contributions, even to country and rock? U mad?

  • @atomicsexxxkitten Black people created Rock music thank you!

  • @Pharoah7400 Oh and West Africans weren't living in the stone age when the pyramids were built, they were living in the iron age, you know, smelting iron. Something the Egyptians at their height never accomplished which caused them to be invaded and ravaged by semitic, Persian, Libyan, and Nubian peoples over the epochs. Yet the Bantus were so backward huh? Ever heard of Timbuktu bitch? Africa as a continent will be claimed by black americans just as Anglo-Americans claim Greece and Rome! Oop!

  • @Pharoah7400 Firstly lets not pretend that Black people live or lived only in West Africa. What about the people of Sudan just south of Egypt, Niger, Mauritania,Mali, Kenya. It is also important that you know that the Saharah desert did not always exist. Also important is the linguistic relationship between ancient Egyptian and modern West African languages, cheers!

  • @malfini1 This isn't about "black people"...the term is as generic as "brown people". It's about blood and culture. That's what heritage is about. African-Americans have more genetically and culturally in common with White crackers than they do with Nubians from the north of Sudan.

  • @Pharoah7400 you my friend are so right.

  • @Pharoah7400 True.

    Africa is in fact a big continent.

    Two Africans picked at random will very likely differ more genetically among themselves than a Swede from an Australian aborigine. Even if the two Africans share the skin tone. Africa is in fact a fascinating continent and Egypt in particular is simply amazing. Whatever origin its people may have, their culture is unique. They were the most advanced civilization in the world.

  • @Pharoah7400 Whatever dude..I don;t know any whites that CAN walk aroung half naked in the desert sun. BTW, its mighty suspicious that when great ancient people are depicted black and brown,,their color was 'symbolic;' when they have irrefutably kinky hair-it was a wig; when whites are depicted as white they are without question white. History is like a lendulum swinging back and forth. It is not linear.

  • @malfini1

    Niger, Mauritania and Mali are all west African countries. They've always been related to the Bantu people. Kenya was conquered fairly early in the Bantu Expansion. Sudan, Somalia and Ethiopia were traditionally Nilotic, who were only moderately more closely related to the Bantu as the Koi-san were.

    There are also black populations in Micronesia and Australia; these are Australoids who left Africa before the ancestors of the Europeans and North Asians left. Reality gets complicated.

  • @malfini1

    they were slaves of Egypt.

  • @Rac665 no my friend those were the Israelites!

  • @Rac665 no my friend those were the Israelites! Not your European or Arabic type of slavery though!

  • @Pharoah7400 Half Nubian...interesting I wonder what the other half is Arab right Surprise, surprise!

  • @malfini1 Why does it matter what the other half is? Do you have a little chart to rate me, like most African Americans? Do you want me to describe in minute detail the gradation of my skin tone and hair texture? All you have to know is I'm half Nubian. And we have nothing to do with all these African-Americans who hug up on us, just because we may share some common skin tone. Who cares, you came from West Africa, which is as far from Nubia as Sweden.

  • @Pharoah7400 We are hung up much in the same way that the English are hung up on Rome, despite the fact that southern Europeans have more in common genetically with North Africans. We have been taught that any noteworthy accomplishments could not have been made by people of black/brown skins and that if they were they were somehow 'black' or 'dark' caucasians. Funny how they always seem to suceed in having us effectively fragmented-STILL. Lighten your heart.

  • @long10lover I agree with the notion that black people in the states have been brainwashed by whites. But the truth remains black people from West Africa contributed minimally to Western civilization. Indeed one could say the same about many Western Europeans. That is not to say that "black people" as commonly understood didn't develop civilizations. Nubian civilization stands as a testament to that. But we can't all be superstars of history. The truth hurts.

  • @Pharoah7400 NO sir. Consentual ignorance does. The blood bank, lawn mower, open heart surgury, gas mask, mailbox, traffic light, laserphaco probe (remove cataracts), and Mark Dean holds 3 of IBM original nine patents for the PC. Just a few contributions made to white civilization by blacks, many which we use daily. (or black skinned caucasians lol)

  • @long10lover If you can have white skinned Negros why can't you have dark skinned caucasians? Look at the Indians in South India. Besides the skin tone they look more white than most Whtes from Europe. And don't give me those bogus Farrakhan genetic theories...

  • @Pharoah7400 Couldn't acknowledge the contributions? lol We don't have white skinned negroes, we have white skinned descendants as per the one drop rule in the US. Whites originated in south india as a mutation, genetecists believe about 10,000 years ago. White skin BTW, is a mutation and a defect in the functioning of the melanosomes. Read the pigment cell research journal. PS-researched by white and Asian men

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  • @long10lover Many white ethnic groups have contributed minimally to Western Civilization...but you don't see them huggin up on the Romans or the French like the West African Americans hug up on Nubia. The Scandanavians have an unglorious ancient legacy...not to mention the East Euros.

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  • @MetallicThor

    blacks that created and lived in Eygpt were NOT AFRICANS nor mixed with africans. So why would the term Afro-asiatic be correct?

  • @ImalHasan How can one be from Africa and not be African? Your reat wisdom astounds me!

  • @malfini1 African is not a race. There are white and brown Africans in North Africa. Ever heard of the Berbers? They are the orginal race of people who were there before the Romans came. They were brown skinned and white with their own distinct languages and culture. Ignorant African-Americans are raised to believe all Africans are black and Africa is a country. Get a passport.

  • It's amazing how much this sounds similar to the Japanese "Koto" except that most songs you here played with the koto have a lot of bended notes.

  • guitar tab please :P?

  • Wonderful. Great video, playing and music-historically work.

  • 0:22 i'd hit that

  • fuck

  • VERY COOL

  • Almost sounds like classical Chinese music

  • @wwmadi , because the ancient eygptians were Asians ( black asians)

  • @ImalHasan They were Caucasians and actually came from Western Europe (where already the megalithic culture was established, even before Egypt came into being) through Gibraltar and Libia. Currently the only remnant of these people are the Basques in Spain.

  • @Arjozof Oh yeah they built so many pyramids and palaces in Europe then went on to civilize the Africans right?

  • @malfini1 Pyramids built in Europe are older than the ones built in Egypt. Go figure.

  • @Arjozof

    No they were asian. Black asian. And the Basque dont have a megalithic culture. only the maltese. but that was AFTER egyptian civilization.

  • @Rac665 First of all, there is no anthropological evidence of them being black asians. And second of all, Europe had a large and extensive megalithic culture BEFORE dynastic Egypt. I'm talking about Stonehenge, Newgrange, French megaliths in Carnac (Karnak - sounds familiar?), wooden pyramids like in Bosnia or southern Poland (which surpassed Egyptian ones in size, not only in age).

    The builders of pyramids and Mezopotamian ziggurats came from Europe and were upper-paleolithic Cro-Magnons

  • @Arjozof

    First of all you're an idiot.

    Secondly, your Bosnian pyramids are a scientifically discredited claim born of the silly nationalism typical to the region, the pyramid in Poland is a few centuries old.

    And finally, as for these megalithic stone structures...they're hardly a uniquely European phenomenon. In fact, they're pretty common wherever we find long term human habitation.

    P.s.

    Amusing that you assume "Carnac" isn't a modern transliteration and somehow relevant to your point.

  • @lowenklee Polish earth pyramids in the Nida river valley are older than Egyptian ones by a few centuries - if that's what you meant. In case you agree to disagree with archeologists from Jagiellonian University, then you are free to make a fool of yourself.

    Megalithic stone structures like Stonehenge and other sites with definite astronomical character first appeared in Europe, and only later in Middle East, which sheds some light on the direction of migrations.

  • @ImalHasan The Asians colonized and civilized Europe!

  • @ImalHasan Just like the ancient Greeks were white negros lol! Do yu listen to yourself?

  • @malfini1 Yes he actually does - and you don't. That's the main problem.

  • @wwmadi If you get a hold of other reconstructed Egyptian melodies, they all sound slightly similar to classical Chinese music. It's really cool.

  • One word.... A Masterpiece!!!!! Thank you Klezfiddle1! :)

  • One word.... A Masterpiece!!!!! Thank you Klezfiddle1

  • Shalom alaichum.

    You've done brilliant work here.

  • Hello Michael

    Wonderful work as always!

    Thank you!

    Ana

  • I love it

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  • clearly much livelier than the cliched piping using in popular media :)

  • Great performance and an informative selection of images.

    One that struck me especially was the harp-like linstrument at about 0:58. It seems to vaguely resemble the seprewa of modern Ghana. Perhaps another clue to trace the movement of ideas between centers of civilizations.

  • Beautiful performance and lovely images!

    Well done, man!

  • haha thats sweet

  • Beautiful!

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