INSIDE THE TOMBS OF EGYPTIAN PHARAOHS | Secrets of Ancient Egypt | History

In the Valley of Kings lay the tombs of many ancient Egyptian pharaohs and powerful nobles. Uncover more secrets in this scene from "Engineering an Empire."

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[Scotto]

Gotta love Robocop talking ancient Egypt

[thaxtonlockley]

A reason for Tutankhamun's tomb being one of the smaller ones was because he died at a young age like 19 I think, so they didn't exactly have a lot of time to build a larger one

[lauraboor]

If you can only pay extra to see one tomb, see the tomb of Seti. Better than Tut. Still has many of the colors and just gorgeous and huge

[SohoJoe]

Literally my great ancestors. ✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽 -Teoki Walston

[hamraz]

Everything related to Egypt pyramids will be of my interest

[BlenderStudy]

Fascinating.. Thank you for the update, History..!!

[hamzagad]

I really Love DR/ Salima character.. and the way how talks .. god bless you

[lewisjaygomes]

I love this host/narrator. Dude really does his thing well

[cherylcallahan]

1280 BC Egyptian History Listening from Mass USA TYVM 💙 History

[mariadaluzmoutinho]

É sempre imponente ver estas obras de Engenharia...a dissimulação do túmulo é algo lunático e surreal!! A arte atingiu e é de um grande esplendor...Os homens são tão pequeninos ao lados destes gigantescos monumentos ...Era tudo a grande e à Egípcia... Quem seriam os homens envolvidos nestes projectos inovadores?

[ancientsitesgirl]

I've been recently into many of Egyptian tombs with my camera. I'm planning many more adventures!💗💗💗💗

[dirtyone]

I love how they show wat they really wat of looked like not white wash or black wash

[gavinbennett]

You'd think that the Egyptians who were awesome tomb makers and pyramid makers couldve sussed how an archway works 😁

[winnifredforbes]

And we think we are an advanced society! We are still living in caves compared to these dudes! 😱

[ivagreen]

I would love to see psychics who can talk to ghosts and to be part of these documentaries 😂 how cool would that be... Anyways, Egypt is fascinating. Greetings from Greece ♥️

[reinamerrick]

I just wanna know at what point does grave robbery become archaeology?

[iluvbigbootie]

Ramsey must be very busy to have over 100 chidden. i guess it is good to be the king haha

[barrybarlowe]

I had a thought.

I think I know why only Tutankahmen's tomb had treasure.

Egyptians had a very involved mythos on how people entered the afterlife. Lots of weighing hearts and transmigrstions, etc. But at some point, the ghost/spirit/consciousness of the dead, moved on. True for pharaohs, true for the workers in the fields.

The pharaohs were buried lavishly, and the goods probably publucally displayed, all going to be buried with Pharaoh. All showing the great devotion, and sacrifice for his well being in the afterlife.

But after Pharaoh's spirit moves on... The priests could reenter the tomb, clean out the goods, melt them down, redesign them, and gift them to the New Pharaoh, showing their devotion and cementing the idea that his wealth came through the priests from the gods. Over time more wealth would accumulate. Gifts would be given to foreign dignitaries, to be replaced with new items from the priests, and it would cycle on, generation after generation.

Except, when a massive calamity killed off everyone who knew where the Pharaoh was buried. THEN, they'd have to start from scratch.

There may have been grave robbers, but I bet the priests usually beat them to the goods...

... Except when things were so bad, the priests were killed off and no one knew where to look, like with Tutanhkamen

[anthony]

But for some odd reason they don’t quite understand what the grand canyon really is and has been for 2000 years and more

[DSRb]

How come you guys depictions of Egyptians aren’t how they drew themselves