The Origins of Ancient Egypt

Dan Snow's History Hit

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4.7 • 12.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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All this week Dan is delving into the history, mystery and legacy of Ancient Egypt. Discover how this mighty empire grew from nomadic settlers to the Nile and how its magnificent wonders were built. Dan explores the life of the most powerful Pharaoh Rameses II, of the ideological muse and Queen Nefertiti as well as Egypt's conquest at the hands of the Persians, Greeks and Romans.

Today we’re starting at the very beginning. How and where exactly does Ancient Egypt begin? To answer this question, Dan is joined by Egyptologist Dr Chris Naunton.

Produced by James Hickmann, Mariana Des Forges and Dougal Patmore

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0:00.0	All this week on the podcast I'm delving into the mystery and legacy of ancient Egypt.
0:07.2	Discover how this mighty empire grew from nomadic settlers on the banks of the Nile
0:12.8	through its downfall at the hands of the Persians, the Greeks, and the Romans.
0:17.2	Learn just how the Egyptians built the awe-inspiring pyramids at Giza
0:22.3	millennia ago and decide if Ramesses the second
0:25.1	really was as great as he thought he was or whether he was a shameless self-promoter.
0:30.6	All this and more.
0:32.2	Listen to Dan Snow's history hit on Spotify or if you hear your
0:36.0	podcast. I could teach Ramesses a thing or two about shameless self-perotion.
0:49.1	Madama Butterfly, the Royal Opera House's critically acclaimed production of Pacini's best-known masterpiece, a tragedy of longing, hope and heartbreak.
0:54.0	A beautiful performance.
0:58.0	Five stars says the Daily Express.
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1:07.0	Tickets from just 13 pounds.
1:09.0	Visit Roach.org. UK. One of the biggest and in some ways spectacular tombs in the Valley of the Kings is that of Ramesses the second.
1:27.1	You go down a reasonably small dark passage and then it just opens up in front of you chamber after chamber.
1:35.7	The hieroglyphs on the walls untouched since they were carved and painted there
1:42.4	3,000 years ago.
1:45.0	It was closed the last time I was in the Valley of the Kings.
1:48.0	Yann and my producer on this podcast and I had the entire place to ourselves.
1:52.0	It's very odd in being down there alone, a huge
1:57.0	tomb carved into the mountainside of a desert valley. Alone with all those drawings of huge significance when they were carved 30 centuries ago,
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