The Untold History Of The Women Who Dominated Egypt | Egypt's Lost Queens | Odyssey

Egypt has been ruled by a woman no fewer than 18 times and yet they can often be left on the sidelines of history. Professor Joann Fletcher explores what it was like to be a woman of power in ancient Egypt, using buildings and artefacts to bring to life four of its most powerful female rulers.

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[gerritjager]

Fletcher is one of the great story tellers our time

[richardsanchez]

I would kill to have something like that jar holding the resin. Such a important piece of history.

[JetIshtar]

I love love love these mini documentaries! And Dr. Fletcher makes it so much enjoyable and educational. This one might be my favorite thus far!

[brittanyhyatt]

My goodness Nefertari’s tomb literally made me gasp. I’d probably tear up seeing it in real life. It looks as if it could have been built just yesterday! Unbelievable 🤩

[tarekhassan]

Perfect, TV presenter with the touch of a professional actor. A wonderful and dramatic script that develops according to the ( action).. event. Professional photography, directing and soundtrack. Everything is wonderful. Sending you perfume greetings from Heliopolis, Cairo.

[corinneyoung]

Love love love you Dr. Fletcher, and thank you so very much for this gift ! I recently discovered I am 10% Egyptian/Levantine/Persian, and this is so inspiring :)

[maximugg]

Such a beautiful, beautiful report! Such a beautiful end to it. I am so happy to have found these documentations with Prof. Fletcher. I am so grateful. Thank you.

[mcplayatease]

How grand a tribute you have offered here. May gratitude abundantly flow toward you, as bounteously fertile as the flush of the Nile, full of the wonders held in the double cornucopia. Thank you.

[jennifer]

When I want to be disappointed in humanity, I read the comments

[carolsalter]

I bet there are more tombs under that sand waiting to be discovered.

[katharper]

If you want to read an ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS novelization of Hatshepsut's Life, her reign, and the usurpation of her position as Pharaoh by her stepson, Thutmosis IV, kgnown as "The Napoleon Of Egypt." The novel is "CHILD OF THE MORNING" by Pauline Gedge. A woman novelist, writing about a Woman Pharaoh. What could be more RIGHT?
Ms. Gedge was also the author of "STARGATE". An amazing female novelist who loves all things "EGYPTIAN".

[kimberlylegacy]

If I had a Time Machine, this is where I’d like to go for a week or so!

[SikanderG]

Queen Hatshepsut was the best pharaoh.

[mcplayatease]

oooOooo right when you say "modern world", a pair of spirit beings come to grace you, flying in from the lower left in a beeline to you in honor of your honoring. I took a bunch of stills here 2:25-6 (have been doing so for years) and these are particularly large and lovely. bless you LOVE

[hudsonfrank]

I enjoy her as an actor she does a good job, knows her information and expresses it well.

[horsegurl]

I would love to go to Nefertari’s tomb🥰

[peterkarargiris]

Love her or hate her, Dr Fletcher knows her stuff; she is an eminently qualified Egyptologist. The script of this documentary however is simplified and selective, perhaps overly so. She tells us that not one scene in Nefertari's tomb was wasted and that the tomb was a 'machine' designed to bring about her transfer into the afterlife. This is correct, therefor there is no need, none, to depict her husband Ramsses II. If you find yourself interested in any of these royal women, get up, turn off YouTube and read about them.

[taniagarciaduenas]

😊It was (1448) when Egypt took the great span from the Euphrates to the Nile cataract but Palestine and Egypt pushed on the borders up to the kingdom of Mitanni, the successor of Thutmosis (lII) 1377😊

[johnlewis]

12 women ruled as pharaohs of Egypt. Their names are Sobeknefru, Hatshepsut, Neferneferuaten, Tausret, Cleopatra I Syra, Cleopatra II, Cleopatra III, Berenice III, Cleopatra VI, Berenice IV, and Cleopatra VII

[enigma]

when I look at the sculpture of Nefertiti I see my mother when she was young..