The ENTIRE History of Ancient Egypt (3,000 Years in 56 Minutes) | Full Documentary

Three thousand years of ancient Egypt in one documentary: from Narmer and the first pharaohs, through the age of the pyramids, the Hyksos, Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, Akhenaten, Tutankhamun and Ramesses the Great, to the Sea Peoples, the Kushite and Persian rulers, Alexander, the Ptolemies and the fall of Cleopatra. Plus daily life, religion, and how hieroglyphs were rediscovered. Dates are approximate, and where historians disagree (the origin of the Hyksos, the mummy of Hatshepsut, how Tutankhamun died, the Sea Peoples) the video says so. Recent discoveries are included, such as the tomb of Thutmose II (2025) and the opening of the Grand Egyptian Museum (2025). ▶ CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction: the gift of the Nile 3:09 Before the pharaohs: the unification of Egypt 6:32 The Old Kingdom: the age of the pyramids 11:26 Collapse and revival: the Middle Kingdom 15:05 The Hyksos and the birth of the empire 17:58 Hatshepsut and Thutmose the Third 21:55 Amenhotep III and the heretic king Akhenaten 25:26 The boy king: Tutankhamun 28:47 Ramesses the Great 33:05 The Sea Peoples and the end of the empire 35:52 Foreign rulers: Libyans, Kushites, Assyrians and Persians 39:49 Alexander and the Ptolemies 43:10 Cleopatra and the end of the pharaohs 47:32 Living in Ancient Egypt 51:16 Rediscovering Egypt 54:12 Why Egypt Lasted ▶ ABOUT THIS VIDEO Narration is synthetic (text-to-speech). The script was researched and fact-checked for this channel; where the evidence is thin, the video says so. Footage: Pixabay (Pixabay Content License) and images from Wikimedia Commons, including photographs, historical drawings and museum objects. Music and ambient sound were created for this video. ▶ PHOTO CREDITS Photographs via Wikimedia Commons, cropped, animated and colour-graded for this video. Full list with titles and links: see the pinned comment. CC BY 2.0: Carsten Frenzl; Cristian Bortes; Dave Nakayama; Jerome Bon; Jorge Láscar; Laurent de Walick; Richard Mortel; Rosemanios; walter calle