Professor of Egyptology and Archaeology Laurel Bestock answers your questions about ancient Egypt from Twitter. What did ancient Egyptians sound like? Why is King Tut so enduringly popular? What ancient Egyptian medicine and tools do we still use in modern times? Why did they practice mummification? Answers to these questions and many more await—it’s Egyptology Support.
Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey
Director of Photography: Francis Bernal
Editor: Louville Moore
Talent: Laurel Bestock
Line Producer: Joseph Buscemi
Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas
Production Manager: Peter Brunette
Production & Equipment Manager: Kevin Balash
Casting Producer: Nicholas Sawyer
Camera Operator: Anne Marie Halovanic
Sound Mixer: Sean Paulsen
Production Assistant: Sonia Butt
Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin
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Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen
Additional Editor: Paul Tael
Assistant Editor: Fynn Lithgow
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0:00 Your ancient Egypt questions answered
0:12 The beginnings of ancient Egypt
0:51 How the sphinx lost its nose
1:38 How did ancient Egyptian language sound?
2:25 Ancient Egyptian tech we still use today
3:04 Were there bars in ancient Egypt?
3:45 How accurate is Assassins Creed Origins?
4:35 Why is King Tut so popular?
5:45 How the Great Pyramid of Giza was built
7:20 Who was the best pharaoh?
7:54 Do the pyramids in Egypt match the ones in Mexico?
9:13 Why did ancient Egypt fall?
9:27 Wait, Cleopatra was Greek?
10:05 Ancient Egyptian innovations
10:41 We deciphered ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs
11:23 Ancient Egyptian art
12:14 Mummies…why
13:30 Ancient Egyptian brain extraction
14:02 What did ancient Egyptians eat?
14:47 How did the Rosetta Stone decipher hieroglyphs?
16:00 The Egyptian Book of the Dead
16:50 Scarabs in ancient Egypt
17:24 Women’s stature in ancient Egyptian society
17:49 Did ancient Egyptians like sex? (Yes)
18:22 Do all ancient Egyptian deities have animal heads?
18:53 New tech leads to new discoveries
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27 comments
Americans are too loud. I don't like it.
Calm down! Save your larynx.
Some interesting facts. Humans hadn't even colonized the entire planet yet when Egypt was founded. Polynesia (the Pacific Islands) weren't colonized until just 2,500 years ago. Also, woolly mammoths still existed in isolated populations when Egypt was founded. Just not anywhere near Egypt, obviously.
Barbara Plains
Death of the firstborn
what a joke
Adobe Is Thé Same In Spanish 😅 Just Saying
17:26 I'm just thinking how they would use bees as vibrators
Are the Pyramids shaped like a pyramid so the homeless can't sleep on the top? (Philomena Cunk)
I can not stand the dumb mf are so stupid to say we cant build pyramids like what??
Young Matthew White Melissa Martinez Thomas
I clicked on this thinking I was going to learn something new. All I learned is that 90% of these questions are asked by little children or uneducated hicks who either don't know how to read, were never taught to read, or just too stupid to use Google 🤷
You need to tell these people that cut limestone that all they need is a sting and a copper chisel… lol it’s not possible to achieve the accuracy that they did, these companies would laugh at you the string just hangs straight it does not magically allow you to cut 2,300,000 stones with such accuracy and precision… please demonstrate with even a block size stone. You can’t…
Ancient Egypt was a very static society and was not able to adapt and incorporate changes in their culture.
Proud to be Egyptian love for all of you ❤
Fantastic. It would be nice to have dinner with you and chat about ancient Egypt. Thank you.
Hilpert Glens
Nobody will tell you that alot of the pyramids made by Hebrew slaves
I really enjoy your content wired, thank you 😊
i have a quick question, how on earth did they build the pyramids all those years?
i have a quick question, why some of the masonic symbols are ancient Egyptian symbols?
Scott Prop and Roll would be proud of you for that joke
They believed that the hearts would snitch on their own owners in the afterlife? Why would the hearts do that?
That's right, I don't build pyramids because I don't want to, not because I can't!
"Ancient Egypt was already ancient in ancient Egypt".
i studied ancient civilizations in college and got my BA in it and Hatshepsut is ALSO my personal fav pharaoh it was the most interesting story in ancient Egypt to me
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