The True Story of Alexander the Great in Ancient Egypt
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2023
- History Hit's Tristan Hughes travels to Egypt to explore its extraordinary links to one of the most famous names from antiquity, Alexander the Great. Of all the lands in the Eastern Mediterranean, it is Egypt that has the most fascinating - and enduring - connection to this ancient conqueror.
It’s a connection that began during Alexander’s lifetime, but endured and evolved significantly following his death, thanks to Alexander’s talismanic corpse, hijacked and fought over between former brothers in arms in an ancient 'Game of Thrones' - with a gruesome climax on the River Nile.
From the holiest of holies at Luxor Temple to the Pyramids at Giza, join Tristan as he explores fascinating links to Alexander that can be found all along the Nile - if you know where to look.
In the depths of an ancient temple, Tristan finds pharaonic depictions of Alexander, a Macedonian king making offerings to Egyptian gods, and looking no different to famous names such as Ramesses II and Tutankhamun.
And he investigates the fascinating links to Alexander at the magnificent necropolis of Saqqara - from the stunning subterranean Serapeum, complete with massive granite sarcophagi designed for the mummified remains of sacred bulls, to a mysterious semi-circle of half-destroyed, Greek looking statues that may well have marked the first tomb of Alexander in Egypt.
This is a story where Alexander’s death was just the beginning...
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I’ve been to Siwa and the oracles den where Alexander went. Probably one of the more memorable places I travelled to, a big oasis with date palms.
Great to discover Tristan here after years of listening his podcasts! Long live your passion and your work! With love from 🇺🇦
A really interesting introduction to Alexander’s impact on Egypt. I look forward to another video taking this forward to the Ptolemaic period (please).
That was fantastic and AMAZING!!
Thank you so much for watching this video channel CZcams.
Greece and Egypt forever 🇪🇬❤️🇬🇷
Alexander The Great my hero in Alexandria Egypt country in North Africa 🌍.
keep going bro nice video much love from egypt 🇪🇬 🇬🇷 ❤❤❤❤
Excellent video and the story of Alexander😊
Anyone else remember the Monty Python sketch with the Alexander the Great de- lizer ? Lol 😂 great video guys ! Loved learning more about his Time in Egypt.
KEEP GOING PLEASE. Make these longer!!❤
The full 45 minute doc is on History Hit Tv!
Great video. Love ‘The Ancients’ podcast. Keep it up Tristan! ❤
Been on my own little "Alexander tour" around Egypt, from Memphis/Saqqara to Alexandria to the temple of the oracle in Siwa Oasis. Also saw the depictions of him at the Luxor temple on a previous trip some years earlier. Fascinating stuff.
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We need these longer 🙏🏻😁
You can watch the full thing on History Hit Tv!
Hi Tristan. Love your work 👍
Thank you from australia 🇦🇺. Really good 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
Our pleasure!
Keep doing your thing guys!! 😁 Great job
It's crazy to see the impact this man had on the world with such short lifetime.
Nice presentation.
Hello from Greece.
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Alexander The Great is Grandmaster of army strategy big respect and admiration
This was interesting
While youre looking at the carvings , checkout the Blocks and how close together they sit . How do you do push them together and not chip pieces off and leave them with no gaps ?
I wish I could travel to these beautiful places
I’ve been. But it all fades to memories. Don’t stress too much, you are where you are.
Keep hoping . Dreams can come true. I have been lucky enough to be to Egypt a couple of times. Wonderful place, wonderful people. Made lifelong friends there from 2003. Long time ago but memories are still there. Lucky to have cameras these days. Keep dreaming , I’ll pray you reach your goal as well 🙏🙏🙏👵🇦🇺
@@gonefishing167 I appreciate that mate I will keep hoping
@@Triple5live true but places like that get my full attention
@@zjmgxclips5633 true. I thought it was mind blowing when I was there. Probably one of the best places I traveled Egypt (for the history, not the current).
I would love to visit Luxor.
Whoa. that's my professor, lol. This feels trippy
Love from Alexander's country Macedonia ❤
Yes ancient Macedonia in northern Greece with the ancient Macedonian capitals of Pella and Aegae
before 25 centuries PELLA ---- MACEDONIAN LAND .
ALEXANDER THE GREAT is born in MAKEDONIJA ! ! !
It was an informative and wonderful introduction of historical coverage video about Alexander great attempted to wears Egyptian , Libyan Ancient blessings ,and making himself beloved by Egyptian and Libyan Ancient peoples before launching military campaigns to ward's Persian heart empire territory...thank you( history Hit)channel for sharing
I think the pyramids are older and sphinx
There is mountains of evidence for the age of the Pyramids.
Watch “John Romer’s Egypt” docuseries, which explains all this.
Avoid pseudo-historians, they peddle old wives tales.
Been watching hancock? Its possible but bear in mind he also believes they built the pyramids using telekenisis and the power of the mind. So be carefull.
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these videos need to be longer and more in depth
You can watch the full episode on History Hit TV!
Gave you the perfect set up to respond haha @@HistoryHit
Greek culture is everything
Hunkering down for the hurricane from central Florida
Alexander saw himself as Egyptian and not Greek. He has a shrine in the Luxor Temple (to this day) where he's shown no differently from his forebears. It should be noted that he did not seek confirmation of his royalty in Greece and burned the Greek city of Thebes to the ground. In the Alexander romance, he's actually the son of the last native pharaoh, Nectanebo ii, not Philip (of Macedon). Which is why the Egyptians welcomed him as their rightful ruler.
Alejandro el Grande.
Listen to Prem Rawat!
Could u do one with Alexander the great in india
Might be time to get a professional transcriptionist. My gut tells me that's not a "Sarah Palin" at 5:57. 😂
Would a couple of hay bales, and some oat bran be an acceptable sacrifice to the Apis bull?
Ο μέγιστος των Ελλήνων!
The Greater Hellene🇬🇷
Very informative video, thanks. One thing: once or twice there are phrases comparing Alexander to "famous Pharaohs like ... Tutankamun." That seems to be substituting today's fame for that of Alexander's time.
Evelyn ❤️
The bull probably dragged the stone
Greeks and Egyptians had religious similarities due their common Pelasgic origins. Hence the friendly atmosphere between them.
What???? That's nonsens. They didn't have any common origins. Pelasgians were indigenous inhabitants of Greece, that were conquered by Dors (proto-Greeks). Egyptians were North Africans. They had indpeendent set of beliefs that had nothing to dow ith each other.
@@pendragonsxskywalkers9518 Thank you for your comment, but I will insist on my opinion. Also, Pelasgians were Proto-Greeks. The movement of Doric people was internal. Nobody came from somewhere else in Greece. If you want to continue to believe in the Indo-European story, then feel free to do so. I will stick to my mythology and other historical references from Orpheus, Omiros and many more.
@@azwris Then show evidences to your claims. If you insist they are true, prove it. (As for Pelasgians - they no doubt intermixed with Dores, so of course modern Greeks would have some Pelasgian ancestry. Still, I see no connection between Pelasgians - indigenous Europeans - and Egyptians, who are people indigenous to Nile Valley.)
@@azwris I must corrected myself - Pelasgians weren't conquered by Dores, but by Achaeans, who in turn were subjected by Dores. Pelasgians were native inhabitants of area. When Achaeans came, they mixed with Pelasgians; this culture was subsequently taken by Dores. Both Achaeans and Dores were cultural ancestors of hellenic Greece.
@@pendragonsxskywalkers9518 Excuse me. Where did you read all of those things? The Ancient historians of Greece mention that the first Pelasgians lived in the area of Arcadia, before their expansiom towards Thessaly and Notthern Greece. I think you're confused and that shows from the correction of your initial comment.
Alexander the Macedonian was a truly great Macedonian King.
There he is a Bulgarian🇧🇬🇲🇰 ready to claim Alexander’s origin😂😂🤡🤡
Watch the documentary carefully, don't be a clown
Wait? Bulgaria was conquered also I thought they came a hundred years later. Under Bulgars and ethnic south slavs@@Kolious_Thrace
Yeah of course evebody knows the famous soldier of Alexander called Bosko and many of them had -ovski in their names. One and only question, are you not even embarrassed saying things like that?
Alexander loved the poor athenian hellens so much he showed them what a Macedonian sword and spear looked like. It was the last two thing's they saw.
One can never be great by being a murderer or by leading a group of murderers.
It was a different time
If u weren't bold + FOUGHT
U were doomed 2 be destroyed
By being Weak!!
Dont talk utter tripe on a history channel please
That might be the most _'fatherless child'_ comment in history.
@@johnbryant5338 Morality is never tripe.
@@renatatarnawski5974 Morality is morality; it doesn’t matter when you live.
If Alexander conquered ancient Egypt that means he came to America because ancient Egypt was in America
So it seems besides being one of the greatest conquerors of all time, Alexander was pretty good at politics, pandering to the peoples he conquered by pretending to serve their gods with sacrifice, even saying he communicated with them verifying his own deity.
1979 people trying to steal my brother Egypt king of kings gold I put pharaoh curse on Egypt gold
Too many ad breaks
So was Alexander the great blonde or brunette
Probably had his highlights retouched whenever possible. Finding a good hairdresser must have been tough on those prolonged military campaigns.
@@Veni_Vidi_Vortice That's why you always travel with your personal stylist.
I am Alexander the great. Promise.
How can god hold us accountable when all Ths false info out here seriously?
This presentation was very superficial. It just didn't cover the historical significance of the events. I found it disappointing. Get a historian to present it.
So this is me Alexander the great I was many people in my last lifetime I was Lazar amber necklace second of the Romanouv Russian dynasty. They were the closest to Christ in the flesh because they both were Christ. I am the holy Grail the true light of the world. They’ve lied to us about everything the devil I made him. I am that I am the creator of all you were all my children. They figured a way to reengineer gods mind brain. I’ve been warning my children were in trouble World War III is at our doorstep America know when will wake up no one would listen to me. I’ve been trying I love you all my children…. I was the greatest warrior the greatest king a loyal friend and a great mother and father I loved all my children.
So basically Egypt was stolen from the Nubian, Sudanese and Ethiopians land...explains the mixed races there....if you go back before Alexander the Greats take over im sure the Pharaoh's were of African decent. DNA after Alexander the Great took over of course would be lighter skinned,mixed raced. I'm sure they made them slaves there while some left. The Greeks were there 30 years. I believe Tutukamims grandmother was definitely of dark skinned African decent.
Egypt wasn't stolen from Nubia. It was never Nubians's to begin with. Nubia was colony in Egypt, in fact. Tut's grandmother was of both Egyptian and Levantine descent, her father even looks Asiatic, and both her parents had light hair 👱🏼♂👱🏼♀. Egyptians were indigenous North Africans with different phenotypes and different degree of Middle Eastern admixture - always. It started long before Alexander. Yes, there might be more European admixture with Greeks, but to say light skinned Egyptians appear with them is incorrect, as they lived in Mediterranean area and they were mixing with Asiatics. In fact we know that Ramesses II was light skinned, as analysis of his mummy shows this. And there was also Libyan dynasties - and Libyans were light-skinned.
By the time Alexander got to Egypt. The Ancient Egyptians were long gone..killed ,bred out or forced to migrate south. Persians and many other civilizations invaded and migrated to Egypt over 1000s of years.
So you have an evidence that the ancient Egyptians migrate to the south ?
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"Amun is an Libyan God.." these english speaking documentaries are getting out of hand... Does any body fact check any more?
1 gets Nowhere
Without being Bold + Narcissistic!
Otherwise
Nothing would have Ever been Built!!
I've never seen anything good come from narcissism.
His son alexander the crappy was a disappointment
He is Enud Alexander Emmanuel Jesus Nazareth comes from heaven king's have Afghanistan birthmark lord over all my brother I'm the mustard
Everything is a myth
ALEKSANDAR IS HOME SOON WORLD WELL SEE HIM 🇲🇰🇲🇰🇲🇰🇲🇰💪💪💪
They see him for 1000s of years now. Only recently some thieves are trying to steal him like rats, but it's history written in stone and we will not let him to be taken away from some people without even identity! I have a suggestion for you guys. You can claim Batman or Iron man, it's easier to convince the world that they were of slavic origins than King Alexander. Your country is named The Republic of North Macedonia for a reason and this reason is to distinguish it from the Hellenic Kingdom of Makedonia and its heritage.
before 25 centuries FILIP MACEDONIAN KINGDOM ! ! ! ! !
@@tatjanavelkova5814 Yes, absolutely 27 centuries ago, to be more accurate. Hellenic Makedonian Kingdom ✌️ Not Slavic Bulgarian Macedonian Kingdom!
ALEKSANDAR MAKEDONSKI KARANOVIC NO GREAT JES SRB SRBIN.
Who is that, someone from your Bulgarian national heroes?
@@iordanistzivas4902 bugari su tursko pleme sa kavkaza i danas zive u rusiji.u setom veku pokorili su srbe iz rimske provincije trakije u danasnjoj bugarskoj i vlaskoj izmesali se sa njima kao manjina primili srpski jezik kulturu veru i to su danasnji bugari poreklom srbi tracani i manjim delom bugaroturci sa kavkaza.
tatko na ALEKSANDAR ---- FILIP KRAL NA MAKEDONIJA.
majka na ALEKSANDAR ---- OLIMPIJA Princeza od EPIR .
@@tatjanavelkova5814 EPIR JE TADA BIO SRPSKI A ALEKSANDAR JE VOJNE VESTINE IZUCAVAO U SKADRU GRADU KOJI JE 1000 GODINA BIO SRPSKA PRESTONICA NEKADA TROJA.
@@tatjanavelkova5814 Filip Karanovic ciji otac dosao iz SRPSKE ZORE drzave Srba na teritoriji danasnje makedonije.
Where the Greek Temples were stolen from. Alexander the thief. He just couldn't resist them. They never did look right when he rebuilt them. Archaeology was always just a hobby. Nobody's perfect❤️The best of Egypt was looted
Alexander the fake
Alexander the Gay Greek, not so great!
That savage Greek had Zero influence on Kemet /Egypt