What Caused The End Of The Pyramid Age? | Immortal Egypt | Timeline

The professor explores one of Saqqara's last pyramid complexes to illustrate how Ancient Egypt's `Pyramid Age' came to an end. A worsening climate combined with political upheaval, famine and economic difficulties to plunge the state into a dark era of civil war, with the land dividing into smaller city-states headed by ambitious small-town leaders. In an obscure tomb in Thebes, she uncovers the stories of warriors who fought in the bloody battle that would eventually lead to Egypt's reunification, and reveals how settlers known as the `Hyksos' tried to infiltrate the fledgling nation's government to seize the throne.

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[georgehollingsworth]

Actually, Egypt went through several "Dark Ages" of which this one was probably the darkest. One does not stick around for about 5000 years without meeting, and overcoming, several great crises.

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This was a wonderful video covering good insights from the First Intermediate Period to the new Kingdom. I liked the direct in person view you provided in combination with your historical narrative. Count me as a new subscriber.