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The Full History of Egypt: Who Really Built the Pyramids?

Published Oct 28, 2026 · 35 min

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Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid. This is the full history of Egypt: a thin green ribbon along one river that sustained a civilisation for five thousand years.

Narration in this film is a synthetic, cloned voice. Sources and image credits are in the YouTube description.

Chapters

1. 00:00 Channel opening
2. 00:10 Closer to the Moon
3. 01:18 The gift of the river
4. 03:39 Mountains of stone
5. 06:07 Who built the pyramids?
6. 08:25 When the river failed
7. 10:42 Chariots and a female king
8. 13:39 The sun king and the boy king
9. 16:17 Ramesses and the first peace
10. 18:42 The world falls apart
11. 21:29 Persians, Greeks and a library
12. 24:25 Cleopatra
13. 26:57 Rome, the monks and Cairo
14. 29:38 Napoleon, the Stone and the canal
15. 32:06 The river today

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