Egypt's golden empire : Pharaohs of the Sun 8/9

Over 3,500 years ago, Rome was no more than a soggy marsh and the Acropolis was just an empty rock, but Egypt was on the brink of its greatest age - the New Kingdom. There was an explosion of creativity, wealth and power in Egypt that would make it the envy of the world. After defeating the Hyksos invaders, successive Pharaohs expanded and maintained their Empire through both force and diplomacy. In the process, they won Egypt vast amounts of gold, influence and respect. They included; Ahmose, Hatshepsut, Tuthmosis III, Amenhotep III, Akenhaten, Tutankhamen and Ramesses III. Behind the power of the Egyptian empire lay a vast wealth of natural resources. Chief among these was the river Nile, the freeway of the ancient world, whose floodplains also provided huge expanses of fertile farming ground that kept Egypt self-sufficient and usually famine-free. Along the banks of the Nile, the humble papyrus plant was used to create a bureaucratic efficiency and cultural sophistication previously unknown to mankind

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[hauhau72]

Man, you're making Egypt sound

very very scary...

[tonsyidibe]

murdered by the priests ... like in that mummy movie

[danseifert]

Interesting interview!

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[HistoryLover1550]

@JHKmOBSCENE Definitely!

[JHKmOBSCENE]

@HistoryLover1550 plus, akhenaten´s religion forgot the most important thing for egyptians: the afterlife. since there were no other gods, osiris, anubis, and all other gods in relation to the afterlife, were in effect nonexistent, wich meant that there would be no afterlife, since the very guide to it, the book of gates, could not be used anymore because of all the traditional gods that it emphasized. so there were quite a few flaws in akhenatens ideology.

[HistoryLover1550]

Sad how Akhenaten's vision and city were abandoned and forgotten, yet he did neglect the political importance of being a king which wasn't good!

[HistoryLover1550]

@TroyBilt007 True, now that the whole murder theory has been disproven.

[jgotley]

@Jaqaliah its pronounced queen tiye

[TroyBilt007]

We now know that Tut had a broken leg and it looks like gangrene set in and he probably died of blood poison.

[Jaqaliah]

It amazes me how much effort is taken not to observe the obvious deductions. When you unemploy the priests of hundreds of gods you create a large force of opposition with a massive network of for insurgence. When they struck at the royal family, Akhnaten would have responded with brute force. Also, no one pays much attention to Tee being granddaughter of monotheists from Haran, orignin of Abraham and a home influeced by Zoroastrian ethical monotheism.