Inside The First Ever Pyramid of Egypt | The Nile: Egypt's Greatest River | Channel 5
Travel with us along the Nile to see The Great Pyramid of Giza which, is the only remaining of the Seven Ancient Wonders. Bettany Hughes gazes inside the first-ever pyramid as well as seeing the mummy of Tutankhamun's Grandmother! Watch on to see Bettany set sight on the Egyptian Pharaoh Tombs!
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Have you ever been to Egypt and seen a pyramid?
yes, and rode a camel named Moses.
Have you people ever told the truth, this is mostly disinformation !!!!!
@@RebelsInc969 I know it. Still beating that dead horse that the Great Pyramid was a tomb. And that's just for starters...
@@RebelsInc969 Obviously they dont know the truth . Talking about slaves and she is also saying the pyramid intact , not knowing they have existed 10s of thousands of years before the great flood ; they were cased with Red granite stones and have been quarried by locals after . I advice every body who is planing to visit ; To watch The Pyramid Code series : Pyramids original names and they were never tombs , They were power-plant , something like Nicola-Tesla's power-house . Or a Book called Giza power plant By Chris Dun And that book speaks of High ancient technology
You ask a presumably innocent question and all you get is as an answer is that you are a liar... I wonder if you guys can set a foot in front of the other in real live? I imagine you acting like this with your employer... probably not, as this is the only thing you learned in life: obeing some commands... and if it's those of an 'extreterrestrian'. lol
It's refreshing to hear a scientist/archeologist say, "We don't know."
NOTTHASAME huh?
@@NOTTHASAME everything you said is fake
@@NOTTHASAME 💯💯💯
@@NOTTHASAME Are you saying Israel isnt a physical location?
Honestly!
PROTIP - Cleopatra is closer in time to the invention of the internet than she is to the construction of the Pyramids of Giza. Incredible to imagine how those pyramids looked when they were still sheathed in white limestone.
you can see it in ac origins
How is that a tip
That's really awesome to think about. Both Cleopatra/internet and the pyramids being sheathed in white.
Not reallly. The math is wrong.
Anca Berberich It’s correct. Between cleopatras death and the building of the pyramids was 2460 years. Cleopatras death to us is 2050 years.
Imagine being in afterlife, and all of sudden someone opens your tomb.
more like you are expecting to be in the afterlife but ended up in a museum instead 🥲
Imagine having your tomb laid to chill in a pyramid for thousands of years, just to be taken out and put in a museum
I would have become a ghost and hunt them.
Exactly its like no one wants to be dug up from there grave.
@@Aj-dl3hw it's history
Exact. It's big sin to do that
It's kinda cool to see how things were done back then, but at the same time very disrespectful to dig up someones resting place.
"If she could talk what she could tell us" It’s hella cramped in here!
The fact that the mummy is over 4,000 years old and is so well preserved blows my mind
4:11 when she said "what she seen" man this give me chills. I was wondering of her life before her death.
Nirvana
Imagine building a giant triangle, and its going to be the highest building for 4000 years. Yet a Phone dies after 2years..
It’s crazy how back then they covered it with limestone it must have been shining like the Taj Mahal back then
you have to do same with modi bcz he is your hero, the hero of foolish masses
From artist pictures its crazy how beautiful it looked in limestone and gold back then
Egypt looked exactly like any modern city we see today... Egypt was a death cult! Like jones town and together with other civilizations like Aztec and Mayan, they basically blew themselves up! Trying to go into another dimension... the ‘afterlife’
@@shababkhan6227 wth. are you out of your mind
It would literally be the brightest thing you've ever seen, or ever will see, besides the Sun itself. It would make the Taj an apartment complex in comparison.
“She’s even more beautiful than her pictures” ah yes, that’s being an archeologist and amazed by everything
Raelees Robles 😂 They love their jobs
Yubi K. Indeed
It's their job that's what they love and that's what fascinates them , if she finds beauty in a mummy it is what it is
They should start finding fascination in their sculptures of when they lived rather than their petrified corpses that look like the walking dead. Its unnerving.
Have you ever seen any statues of Queen Tiye? She was very beautiful!
*Bruh they’re smelling a dead body*
Well its worth a millenia tho
😂😂😂😂
Isn’t that what you do when you smell leather?
@@NebulaNeko86 leather ain't human 🙄
Cynthia da Gama we are animals, what’s your point? Don’t feel bad, at least you know now 😊
Egypt has always been my dream!
But most of the people are kind tho
So, fulfil your dream .
@@Kareem.bondok شجع الأجانب على الزيارة ياعم 😂❤️
@@mohamedzidan3502 منا بشجعها و بقولها حققى حلمك 😁 وأهو نحسنوا النسل شوية 😂
@@Kareem.bondok ايوه بما أنها لسه شباب يعني 😂 سيبك أنت بس أحلى حاجه أنك زملكاوي زيي ❤️
I love history. Especially ancient egyptian history. But, i wish they can rest in peace
Let tyrants rest in peace?
They are bcs the soul already left the body...
I often wonder this. If their culture was to be left untouched, with all their items, for their soul to return to live on and be immortalised - and archeologists understand this - I wonder what they think on removing and separating and storing and sending around the world.
@@aminfaka8986 Tyrants according to our times, not theirs. It was very normal back then.
the fact that we can never ever see that time..really makes me sad😔
exaclty i would have got lost in ancient Egypt
Smoke the toad you'll see a lot more than just that hahaha
It's frustrating because with such perfectly preserved bodied, it seems soo closssee! And yet so far
'She's even more beautiful than her pictures ' ...okaaayyyy hold on🙄
@ಹಿಂದೂ Warrior 😂 that's what I was thinking
I wanna see her picture
Queen Tiye, wife of Amenhotep III. Her wiki page has several depictions of her - although perhaps they're talking about the picture of her mummy from when it was discovered. lol
🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
The pic much be only a skeleton 😂
Am I the only one really impressed by this mummy’s cheekbones? My goodness, stunning.
Me too.
I like the way the women got excited over the mummy. It is like they give her life through their excitement and emotions.
Congrats girls, You just inhaled the bubonic bacteria.
😂😂😂
Coronavirus😂😂😂
😅😅😅😅
The bubonic plague was in the 1300s the is 5000 years ago🤦♂️
@joshua esguerraaa it's penaciln that's the cure
Been binge-watching "How Pyramids were made" videos... and this is the best so far. Well done Bettany Hughes!
This woman knows how to get the excitement going! Love it! Such fascinating and amazing stuff! Well done!
after this i am sure that ancient civil engineering and architecture was far better than today what we have
Just imagine getting buried then a hundreds of years later you get dug up and put on display for the world to see🥺😞
It's really sad ... They don't deserve to be touched .. but also can't deny with learning and helping the future from the amazing past world they lived in
agree with you😔
Agreed
Agreed😞😞😞
hundreds of years? are you dumb or acting like one?
4000 years? This is incredible, everything is just amazing
2:19 So she’s thousands of years old and has hair but my dads lacking 😂😂
its blonde hair from vidal sasson..skin is dark black african but hair is blonde. raisens made hair change colour to bright blonde but the skin is black and not bleached...hmmmmm.
prolly not so funny when you find out balding is genetic
They probably put that blonde hair there ..it does not match 🤣🤣
@@emandiallo3863 u type lame. Hair gets lighter. Any preserved corpse turns black. ANY. She could have had a redish skin tone for all you know. These people don't exist anymore.
@@armwrestlingfan6804 fr
Is that donkey full grown?...doesnt look strong enough to bear the weight if its passenger
It does look young but donkeys are a lot tougher than you think. Plus some breeds are smaller than others.
just look at mongolian horses... they are tiny but some of the best warhorses ever!
so long as its a donkey ladies will ride it hard anyways
Certainly animal welfare International can look into this matter and can weight the rider as well. 🤔
My grandpa used to live a small village and own a farm and lots of domestic animals. can confirm that donkeys are very tough animals. carrying one person is the lightest they can carry, based on what i have seen.
I have read that some of the treasures in Tut's tomb had been intended for someone else but when he died unexpectely were repurposed for him. Maybe even the tomb itself.
That makes sense. Nobody knew whether the king would live for 30 years or three months, and there were other people entitled to grand tombs. They probably had an on-going programme of work, like modern property developers.
Proud Egyptian❤ my great ancestors🤴
You guys are so lucky ❤️
It's great seeing a much lesser known Pyramid, though crumbling, its facinating
Bettany and Sulima are much older in this documentary, I could almost recognize them by their voices. Among the greatest ladies of our time. Egypt is such an amazing topic.
I love you
They black people
@6:48, spectacular view of the pyramid!
I really enjoyed this video. It is not the usual Ancient Egyptian sights and artifacts. I hope to see more of your videos.
I'm Norwegian with a clean nordic composition, my hair looks exactly like hers in every way! I'm honored.
when she points out the shadow of the farrow portrated in the wall, thats just amasing, ansient egypt, the peope that use to live in there always amaze me.
This is a very, very interesting piece.👍 One of the best ones I've seen. I would ❤ 2 travel 2 Egypt 1 day.
3:52 When she said "ok, ok, look, look," I thought the mummy open her eyes.
The dead people in the afterlife staring at modern humans checking out their mummified bodies: 👁👄👁
All those great finds in Egypt. From ancient times 4000 years ago. Rather amazing.
I’m so happy I got to visit Egypt last 2017.. also went to that museum
Bless
1999 I visited this pyramids, very nice experienced in my life
Thank you for the great job . I wanted to visit Egypt since long time ago ! Still didn’t have a chance
do you think that they knew people thousands of years in the future would unearth their tombs and been able to understand more about human history just because of the painstaking efforts they made to preserve certain bodies, truly makes you wonder what we do now that will help people learn about us in the future.
No because if they wanted us to know about the past they would have let us know how the pyramids were built
@@joedan6442 you know wat u talking about
Brilliant ! thanks for sharing this most interesting doco. cheers NZ
THIS IS THE BEST VEDIO EVER. SO CLOSE IHAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE.THE MUMMY VERY VERY CLOSE SNAP AND CLEAR. AND THE SCRIPTED WALLS LOOK NEW ONES.AMAZING.
Wow amazing . Thanks for taking us to see Pyramids 👍
Excellent and very interesting video . I wish I may visit this great place some day.i love old civilization.
I am half way through my level 3 Egyptology diploma, I am so excited to learn more
“Egypts greatest river” As if there are other rivers within the country
As if it only passes their Egypt
Jeremy Kirkpatrick Blue nile is in Sudan and Ethiopia...
Team Castro right we call it tiqur abay or black nike or blue nile because it takes all the fertile soil from Ethiopia All that civilization is because of nile and our fertile soil
@@chasegwop47 shhhh you afro centrist troll. And yes, the Nile belonged to the Egyptian Empire as it always belonged to Egypt. Egypt you see now is much smaller than it was before when it was the Egyptian Empire encompassing the WHOLE Nile. So yes troll, the Nile is Egypt and it belongs to Egypt. Does not matter if it passes through other modern countries now or not...History is what matters!!
@@NiNGamingNetwork You do know Egypt is in Africa right?
I love how she narrates, wow!
I 💜 human history. Especially the Egyptian & Greek Mythology..
very informative .... I liked it alot ..... keep it up!
Thousands of years old and still well preserved is beyond incredible.
Chalk it up to how they were mummified and how those mummies were stored. They are actually the equivalent of "tanned leather" if you want to be technical. Their skin was dried out and coated in oils/resins which killed the bacteria which would normally degrade organic matter and which "sealed" their bodies from the environment. They were then stored in caverns which were low in humidity and safe from external threats like insect infestation and of course tomb robbers. Without that they would have become just another pile of bones I'm afraid - or simply turn to dust. 🤔
Brilliant........ this lady is perfect describing every detail of this incredible story. ❤❤❤
The best student in my art class in high school 6:20 My effort........ 13:55
But the beauty lies inside
@@scorpicpro6357 that's Why his Effort is so flat :/
@@scorpicpro6357 true
I wish the donkey a speedy recovery.
I thought u were talking about the mummy
shoot, i agree, this is what i thought too!
They have legs they should use them! Infuriates me when a donkey gets used to be ridden and a camel is made for that climate and terrain
Shrek
I heard the donkey go, “ooooof!”
I would cry of excitement if I ever see a mummy!
Really very interesting to reveal some of world's mysteries
8:10 Merer was NOT the project manager for the Great Pyramid, he was an inspector responsible for transporting lime stone from Tura to Giza. His diary make no mention of the Great Pyramids or indeed any structure the stone was used for. Everything she said was a complete assumption base purely on the diary being written in Khufus reign. There is also NO connection between Khufu and the building of the Great Pyramid anyway.
main steam bs never tell the truth!
Thank you ! 🙏 facts, just facts !
So you're saying it was aliens... Interesting
@@juliasabrinasuarez3379 Who mentioned aliens...?
Thank you
Why did they do that?! Mummies are resting in pyramids and they just put in a museum?!!! This is a disrespecting in dead!!!
Dont they put replicas on display and study the real one? Idk i just know they do that with fossils
I thought the same. Is just bodies ends of the day. Human bodies belong in the ground. We have all their artifacts no need to keep bodies.
From the way they handle the bodies, I see great respect in those eyes.
It’s tradition pounded into people that has them feeling weird about it. It’s a body
It's so we can learn more about them! I'm sure they don't mind! There's tombs that's underwater we're practically saving these mummies
It's amazing. Hard to believe.
A new docu that I didn't know Bettany made? What a nice surprise!
nice video
The hair is totally natural and well preserved. Strawberry blond. So cool.
The expect said otherwise.
@Intelligent Evolution 2:40 2:40 2:40 2:40 2:40 Yeah, it's preserved - but not naturally BLOND. It's the stuff they use in the mummification process. 2:32 Didn't you hear what the expert said? . . . 2:37 You can tell she is so tired of people jumping to that conclusion of 'proof'.
Hair is bleached from preserves
Wow... Wonderful of country looks very interesting, thank you so much for share.
Loved the host! She was awesome and wonderful listening to 🙏
They say the final resting place of someone who is clearly not there
Jeremy Kirkpatrick because no mummy has ever been found in it..
@Jeremy Kirkpatrick No , not so
@@NOTTHASAME how can you write that? there are literally thousands of artifacts supporting burial evidence.
@Jeremy Kirkpatrick Sp what is the "mountains" of evidence you speak about ?? You mention one thing and you are going to get embarrassed .
The great pyramid was probably a powerplant. Definitely not a tomb.
I am a nilote from kenya,and i must say Im glad we are mentioned in ancient Egypt ,the very culture of egypt is from east to west africa,no egypt,everyone from asia to Europe admired our cool culture
Karibu
I really2 love watching historical videos like this and i wanna know how they excist
I always respect Egypt in terms of history
I only respect the great country of Sealand in terms of history.
Imagine they get cursed just like in the game Uncharted where they opened the door of the casket and turn its devils
yo which one 2-3 i only watched pewdiepie play uncharted 4
qazi raza I think it was 1
@@darthmaul7477 thanks mate
Poor donkey, quivering .... looks like its about to give way
narindar 😂
A wonky donkey!
Smh evil lady
I know. Poor animal.
thats exactly what i was thinking
Coś pięknego i niesamowitego ❤️❤️❤️
Ur riding is so amazing it had given u a relief
The camera really does add some size, the pyramids looked a lot bigger then I remember.
" Without a doubt " she says. The trouble is that Merer's diary leaves a pile of doubt. All it tells us is that Merer used a boat to carry stones from a quarry down the Nile to a place unknown somewhere not too far from Giza. It might just as easily been Memphis or somewhere else on the east side of the river. The diary tells neither the size nor the purpose of those stones. No mention whatever is made of pyramids.
Pyramid is a greek word, coined more than a thousand years after the Merer text was written. Of course, the Egyptians had a different word for the Pyramid. The destination of the journey in the Merer text is referred to as The Horizon of Khufu. Khufu is the Pharaoh, whose name has been found written on a supporting stone above the King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid. Why horizon? Hard to put ourselves into the Ancient Egyptian mindset. But how about this? All Egyptian Necropoli are on the West bank of the Nile because the sun sets in the West. In Egyptian Religion, based on the texts we have, the sun dies in the West each evening, travels through the Underworld and is reborn each morning in the East. A similar journey should be undertaken by the dead Pharaoh, who will transform into Osiris, the God of the Underworld thus retaining order in the world. So, when you stand on the Nile at Gizah and look westward, you see the sun setting on the horizon behind the Pyramid. Why should it not be called the Horizon of Khufu?
I think they took long in telling us, if it was found 6 years ago. It's not the first time I have heard of stone being shipped somewhere.
@@Xorgrim because Khufu did not build the pyramid he might have dug them out and repaired them but he sure did not build them as a tomb
@@Xorgrim I take the train to work. The name on the side of the carriage is SNAFU CREW. It's in spray paint (but GOLD!). I'm guessing they own the train.
@@babystepsrus666 He sure didn't, you say? Please question your certainty about this. Are you really certain, that it is based on more than click-bait and the opinions of people who try to sell you their next book about the great conspiracy, all the Egyptologists supposedly are engaged in? Have you really heard a better explanation on how Khufu's name made it into the Pyramid on a stone that was only accessible during the building process of the structure. A better explanation than that it was built in his name?
Enigmatic & Breathtaking 🧡 Respect from India 🙏🏻
I'm patiently waiting on the day when the truth comes out about ancient Egypt
Yea because whatever is in that tomb isn’t an Egyptian 🤷🏽♂️
What truth? We know quite a bit about them already, what is being hidden?
@debrebal4 😂😂😂
@RastaCity Represent are they tho?
@ 318 Science continue to cover-up the Neanderthal deception claiming a sub-species truth is ,they're early Europeans no more no less genetics alone with DNA has proven has proven this to be fact. 318........don't hold your breath.
I’m Egyptian and I’m learning a lot!
It is amazing, very interesting
Nice commentary, nice images, I mean...Kudos Channel 5.
Wonder how they would feel if someone dug up their ancestors🤔🤔🤔
why can't anybody sleep peacefully in the afterlife without so many distractions?
because they want to be remembered. Probably they glad of being famous up until now
🤣
that’s what im saying they disturb their resting places
@@nirvana1015 they had their own way and their own culture and stuff for being buried and mummified, these people just took em out of there. Iam pretty sure they wouldnt be glad if u had told em then.
THIS IS THE BEST AND INCREDIBLE VIDEO
Love Egypt from India
Riding that donkey is like riding a toddler, I would feel too bad to get on it
Oh, I regret so much not taking archaeology as my subject. That dream will always remain unfulfilled in this lifetime.
Same here
Love Egypt!!!
Amazing❤️❤️❤️
Inside The First Ever Pyramid of Egypt : shows pyramid built by 3rd Dynasty(Pharoah Djoser) then shows mummy from 18th dynasty ! Thats like talking about the origins of the White House, then showing pictures of Obama !
I was also wondering about this too. Wasn't King Djoser's pyramid, an architect by Imhotep, the first-ever stepped pyramid? unless this is a new discovery, hehehe
And they say the papyrus diery of Merer tells us he was the project manager for the building of the pyramid and details how they built the pyramid.. The papyrus doesn't even mention the word pyramid. And it says nothing about the construction of it either.
@Jeremy Kirkpatrick I don't think aliens built it. And Khufu isn't mentioned, his half brother is. There are lots of things built with limestone in Egypt. Just because they ferried som stones up to Giza for a "big project" does not mean it was used for the pyramid. If it really was for the pyramid the biggest man made object ever built up to that point, I think the guy would have mentioned it by name ESPECIALLY if he was the project manager. I've seen carbon dating of the mortar used on the pyramid that place it around that time zone so it was probably built around the time of Khufu. I'm just saying that a document with no mention of a pyramid can hardly be counted as definitive proof on it's own.
romans always confuse us with their story telling. they have an agenda and just spread the lies across because they are empowered to do so
I would've left the country faster than Usain Bolt if that body even moved a centimetre
@@circe9981 who are u telling
@@circe9981 aight
even dead machines do not move. soul gone and cant return until after the crunch
Nice video with great content 👍
This is the best thing that I have ever heard
in 6th grade I remembered that my social study teacher made everyone do a river about Egypt and I got to do about The Nile River
It starts from my country Uganda in east Africa
WOW, Miss Bethany, you're living my dream.
i thought tuya was da bomb
wow. great work
I have been inlove with Egypt and all its beautiful since I was young first book I was hooked ❤️ most beautiful tomes ,I would love ,love ,to go there my boys thought I was a little over the top about this 🤩
I love how they’re fangirling over a mummy 😂
6:55 *Uno de los mejores videos, nunca antes habían presentado la pirámide de esta forma.*
Wow thanks for sharing
What a great Video❤❤❤