PBS - Pyramid - David Macaulay
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- How did ancient Egyptians build the Great Pyramid at Giza, joining two million blocks of heavy stone with amazing precision? Who were the leaders who built these enormous structures, and what did these tombs signify? Host David Macaulay explores the history, mythology, and religions of Egypt's people, combining live footage and animation. Take a rare look at the mummy of Ramses II and buried treasure in the sacred Valley of the Kings.
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This is so well done . Even for its time . NO BS . No ancient alien stuff . No interference from the Egyptian government. Just as much truth as they could provide. Thank you PBS .
I’m just settling in. I’ll likely enjoy it. But I think they missed the point of the Marmer relief. Look closely and you’ll see that he is about to dash someone’s brains out. The kind of imagery a Pharoah might need.
I have come to believe that the farther we get from the 1970s the farther television strays from real knowledge.
To the dude who uploaded this, and Castle, and Cathedral...thank you so much.
And viewers like you.
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Help cia
Love castle.
Watched it with my kids
I had this on VHS when I was a little girl back in the 90’s. THANK YOU for uploading this
The animation is a nice touch. I've never seen such a serious treatment of ancient Egypt done in a cartoon.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw this in school as a child on vhs, and it seemed like this was a lost video. I tried youtubing this for years and I thought it was just too old and underappreciated to have been preserved. Glad I was wrong!
I’m glad I don’t care
Saw it as a child, plus the one about building a medical castle. Great shows!
@@alanlopez7814 y do you have to be so rude
@@alanlopez7814 You’re too ignorant to care. Poor little stupid. 😏
@@kittycorn-qe8kn why dose he have to be so nerdy
The animation style makes me want to watch the Heavy Metal movie again.
Nailed it.
This is absolute & pure nostalgia for me. I watched this many times as a child and when I was finally able to go and see an actual Egyptian exhibit in a museum I shed tears.
This is absolute I don’t care for me
@@alanlopez7814 Small minded people…so pathetic. Wasting air.
@@alanlopez7814 as everyone in your life has said to you. Sad attitude.
I don't understand these other replies... I only want to say, Good for you!
One can tell who sat in school for years and never had any interest in the education that was given to them!!
I always liked Macaulay and these videos. His voice and style is engaging, gentle and non-condescending.
Absolutely many academics, engineers, and professors are extremely arrogant. This presenter, McCauley is not, at least not in this video.
I don't know, he was kind of hard on Radjedef. Having a meaningless short reign of 4 years. But I agree with the rest.
yes
@@devinreese7704 indeed
Macaulay is a genius in both mastery of the knowledge of his field and the amazingly well paced, engaging, and informative way he presents it.
Wow. This show is like an I, Claudius reunion, what with Brian Blessed, Derek Jacobi, John Hurt and Sian Phillips rounding out the cast. They truly have royal voices!
Interesting that John Hurt did voices for this one. I thought that one of the voices on "Cathedral" sounded like him, but it was actually Sean Barrett (possibly doing an exaggerated impression of John Hurt's voice).
Thank you for uploading! This was my absolute favorite PBS special as a kid! I would watch this on VHS at least once a day!
I am sure you enjoy this now.
oh man I thought I was the only one. I too have this, still, on vhs.
@@walkerpantera PANTERAS PLAYING SHOWS IN 2023 YESSSSSSS IM SOOOOOO EXCITEDDDD ! MUCH LOVE
Good for you. That makes you an Egyptomane. This is someone with a keen and very disciplined interest in ancient Egypt without the degree.
Me too as a kid .
This is the 2nd David Macaulay documentary I've seen and its fantastic. Great attention to detail and packed full of information..they don't make em like this anymore
Not with those black african faces oh no no no never again. Once king tuts dna was found to be E1B1A ethiopian in first testing. That was it buddy.
nerd
@@michiganstatearchaeologyte800 except those faces DO LOOK LIKE Ethiopian faces, look again. You racists imagine such a great difference in appearance between what you think is "African Face type" and the true variety in the appearance of people all over Africa as Anthropologists understand! No, I'm not an African or "Black Supremacist", I'm an anti racist regardless of who the racism is against, especially Eurocentric anti "Black" African racism as was just written here! RIDICULOUS!
This was clearly pre nova
@@jonathancummings6400 Also Egyptians weren't Ethiopian lmao
Egyptians were neither black nor white, they were brown.
Thank you, this was incredible to watch. Informative & enjoyable so unlike the sensationalized productions in recent times.
💯
How refreshing to hear a documentary come right out and call ancient aliens bullshit.
Golden age of documentaries
Omg!! This wasn’t a fever dream from when I was 7 years old!!!!😮 I’ve been searching for this for decades!!
your very attractive
I too have this, still, on vhs, and watched it a million times since the 90s but havnt watched in years. happened upon this and saved it to my favs. I remember every line and musical note. thats why I love it so much I think....the music. but also love how this story was told.
Even if this is aimed to a young audience its still better than some newer overly dramatic pop documentaries.
well, i am not young and i enjoyed it immensely
Even if this is aimed at I don’t care it’s still better then some newer I didn’t ask
Totally agree, its not crazily overproduced, its simple for kids but still entertaining and educational for all ages.
Love this. I need to hear something from long ago, and non stressful enough for kids.
What a Great story. I loved the magical ending. The music was great. I really loved how they added it in all throughout the story. Really added some spice to ancient Egypt👌🔥👍
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This was a great documentary. Glad it's on here, thanks for posting it!
I remember this being in three parts. I loved this when I saw it in fifth grade, but I was sick on the last day so never finished. Thank you though for allowing me to see it.
I think I watched this in school too
@@SecondTake123 can you answer this question i have it for school and i have no idea. What 3 things were necessary to sustain a King’s existence?
As a kid I didn't know much about the history behind this story. I've looked it up now, and I'm amazed at how closely the animated story here builds off of history. Djedefra probably did murder one of his brothers to get the throne, and his little brother Khafre really is believed to be the pharaoh who built the sphinx.
The Sphinx is believed to be an outcropping of rock in the desert. Not a bunch of blocks dragged there and it is dated to 11000years BEFORE Kufu(or Khafre) built the Great Pyramid. The erosion wear marks on the sides of the enclosure of the Sphinx is from WATER & as Egypt is basically a dry desert this had happened WAY before there were Egyptians.(Robert Schoch determined that) Also as they were very good at accuracy to carving in proper proportions then the head of the Sphinx was that of a much larger Lion.(a Lion worshipping cult before the Egyptians)? who have never worshipped Lions. As for the face now on the Sphinx, who it is? It is not Kufu. It does not match the tiny statue that was found in Kufu's pyramid
@@bunzeebear2973 There is a lot of mystery regarding the Sphinx, so it's difficult to know exactly how old it is. I think the area the Sphinx is in was not quite as dry 3500 years ago as it is now. I've also heard a hypothesis that the head of the Sphinx might have been added to the outcropping later (presumably by Khafre?).
@@bunzeebear2973 kufu and family just renovated the giza complex. Pre narma pottery portraits 3 pyramids.
@@bunzeebear2973 We don’t know that for sure. In one year, that theory you mentioned has been almost completely debunked. However, they are all theories and speculations. We need to be wise and rational to be closer to the truth.
@@bunzeebear2973Sphinx had a Dog Head. His name Anubis.
this is interesting! never knew egypt was so advanced!
Ten times that which is presented by Mainstream Academics.
millennia before the greeks, amazing
Wish they'd made more of these..
I love the cel animation used :)
Oh my god! I have been looking for this film for many years. And now i've found it. :) Thanks for uploading.
Derek Jacobi has such a distinctive voice. I recognize that voice anywhere! Derek Jacobi as some of you might know played Senator Gracchus in the movie Gladiator (2000).
best performance was in the I Claudius series...so was John Hurt's...
And Cadfael!
This is one of the things that got me so interested in Egypt
What a lovely documentary! 👏👏👏
What an amazing voice cast ! In addition to the I, Claudius group, you also have Tim Piggot-Smith (Creedy from V for Vendetta) and Timothy Spall (Wormtail from Harry Potter) !!!
Thank you for uploading these.
Dear David
Thanks for the videos and your books. I hope you do a series on New York,Boston,Washington D.C,Chicago
Been ages since I seen this. Great memories. The cast of I Claudius as voice over was great.
Plus one of the first shows that portrayed the sphinx as ancient authors and travelers said it looked liked. A North African civilizations.
Egypt was an African civilization that typified many Ancient civilizations in Africa.
Probably the last documentary that will portray the Egyptians the way they actually looked.
Majority of the Films portraying Ancient Egyptians are White Washed and I
am sick of it. Therefore, I am grateful the producers made an
historically accurate portrayal of the Ancient Egyptians.
ifelder489 is it all the pointy noses and tiny lips that upset people, dam Egyptians recorded in stone forever and ever hunting Negroids for fun that live in caves and thickets that often eat one another, Egyptians always portray themselves completely Caucasian
ifeider489, We're all African, humans originated from that continent about 300K years ago. So you get your African so long as a human is acting the role. White washed? Quit being such a racist bigot.
Or I'll make sure the next Egypt docudrama has a cast of only Chinese, Norwegian, Peruvian, and Eskimo. Just to see your racist mind fry.
WE WUZ KANGZ
@Tom Morrison Greeks invented science.
Egypt. What a beautiful culture. A kingdom of royalty, gold, beauty and fashion. Plus they make very good stories, too, not just the story of the pharaohs but also the commoners, the slaves and the pharaoh's high class of people.
I wonder, did Khufu actually mate with his queens to have as many children as he had or did he mate with some of the slaves? How exactly did pharaohs have so many children? I mean, I understand why they had to, but HOW did they manage to?
+Douglas Latter Pharaohs had MANY wives as well as concubines.
lots and lots of sex.
Seriously though, not much entertainment alternatives...
Hunt, read some stuff, play some games, sex.
Come to find out there were no slaves the trick to get us here lol
@@jmitterii2 later on, chariot riding, drinking, at least for royalty of course
I first watched this back in Middle School. I recently watched this video just before and after going to Egypt.
Wow that was the very best voice acting for an animated Pharaoh Khufu I've ever seen! NNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I remember watching this in history class
connie haller same, only i saw the roman one
I'll never forget when they showed this to my class in 7th Grade. Mostly because 10:02 made my hormone-addled jaw drop; school was the last place I expected to see something like that, and needless to say, I (and I'm sure a lot of the other boys) were paying VERY close attention after that.
Omg. I love David so much. He is such a cutie and even cuter when he talks Ancient Egypt to me. Btw, hey Mr. Walsh!!!!!
Did you kiss yet
I’ve been looking for this for a long time!!! Thank you!!!
Hurt, Blessed and Jacobi also were part of the Cast of I Claudius
Yep and I think Sian Phillips was playing...the wicked Queen, who else!!...this great actress was Livia in I claudius .
*When you walked in class and saw the TV rolled to the front, THIS WAS WHAT YOU WATCHED.*
Yep, good times!
Thank you for putting this up.Its been years.What year did it come out?I'll never forget it.:)
1988.
I loved this, so beautifully done
Great stuff. Thanks for posting this.
Brian Blessed again! And Derek Jacobi!
And John Hurt as Khufu! All three-Blessed, Jacobi, and and Hurt-appeared together in "I, Claudius"
"I, Claudius" reunion!! Claudius (Derek Jacobi,) Augustus (Brian Blessed,) Caligula (John Hurt) and Livia (Sian Philips)!
Basically accurate! Well done! 👌👌👍👍👍 Blessed Egypt my people, Israel my inheritance,and Assyria the work of my hands!Says the most High God 🙏
I really like the animation in these videos. Thanks!
John Hurt, Brian Blessed. Is Derek Jacobi in this one too?
My father's tomb? NOOOOOOOOoooooooooo.
that’s the best part of the video.
That's the best part :D
Double D (Thomas): My father's tomb? NOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo.
Ed Edd n Eddy Billion Dollar Boy (2005)
I literally just found a recorded copy of this from when I was a kid.
Interesting how Brian Blessed always voices the builder/planner of these things.
I have to watch this for an assessment I have in class. Looks like I'll be here for a bit.
Looks like I’d not care for a bit
@@alanlopez7814 🍞
The mustache of the Pyramids! How fast things age. So many of the ancient guys--in the animation--had the best idea: shave it all off and be a skinhead on the Nile.
A perfectly lovely video. Perfectly horrible comment section. Never fails.
You sound perfectly gay
karl.....I read you comment and amost spit up my Pepsi....perfectly funny
I generally disliked animation of any kind, so soon as I saw the animation I was fully prepared to dislike this. But it really works! A nice presentation all round ❤
The Ancient Egyptian Unit of Measure is the Cubit. The length is derived from tools/rules found in tombs in which there is an evidential variance of about 2% (1 cent. in 50). Using parameters found within the Great Pyramid, a Cubit of .5235 m. has been derived. A circle of 6 Cubits has a 1 meter Diameter (meter 1/10,000,000th distance from Equator to North Pole) The Pyramid Height = the radius of a circle with a length of its base parameter.Yet nowhere can you find Pi in Ancient Egypt. Nowhere.
Vous avez mis le doigt dessus cette correspondance est la plus étonnante pour toute éternité. Personne ne pourra jamais la remettre en question. Un phénomène naturel je crois...
Brian Blessed and John Hurt. Recognize their voices. Awesome.
I remember seeing this part 41:29 as a kid in school and wondering “how the hell did he get up there?” 😂
2020 anyone
Nostalgic history show.
David MC ftw
Gracias por estos dibujos tan didácticos. Me encanta el antiguo Egipto. Saludos desde España.
"Local limestone blocks, some as heavy as 15 tons!" What about all the granite blocks from Aswan, 500 miles away, some as heavy as 70 tons? It's nostalgic and entertaining, but there's not much in the way of historical accuracy. Interesting that in the scene where they put Khufu to rest the chamber is as empty and the walls inscription free as they are today. I mean considering that the reason none of that was ever found was because of grave robbers. Don't get me started on how steep and narrow the shaft up to the kings chamber is, and how difficult it would have been to get a body up it (or out) much less any treasure.
1 Egyptian block weights 2.5 Tons, 1 Ton is 2000pds. that's 5000pds. Well if u had 7 Arnie's who can lift 700pds each? Which he could back in the day, that would be 4900pds. 15 Tons is 30 000pds. 50 Arnie Schwartzies could lift 35 000pds. If i didn't have 50 Arnie's, then i would get some rope and 15 Tons of Bricks. Done. Giorgio is playing you for a fool.
I remember watching this in high school
I have to do it in middle school
I like it the cartoons get my grandkids attention and the truth is given to inner consciousness of truth
I remember this from so many years ago when it first came out.
THAT'S HOW OLD I AAAAAAAAAM!! NAAAAAAAAAIL!!!
23:55 so epic
I have to watch this for school and I have procrastinated so long and it’s due tomorrow morning!
1822 AD. Ancient Egypt writings solved and Just one Century later in 1921 AD Tuts Tomb Discovered?. Strange?;)
Rip John hurt
the two main voice actors are derek jacobi and john hurt.
"I watch this for the plot" 10:50
ur so cool
thanks for posting
It starts out Scary already. Cool.
Macaulay's videos are spectacular! and , if im not mistaken Khufu is voiced by John Hurt.
Almost brings me to tears seeing they actually went with making the animations with accurate skin tones. Too many people now believe they were only pure white skinned people in rule during this time. D
That is not an accurate skin tone.The ancient Egyptian has skin tone varying from the Ethiopian to the Sudanese.Don't be fooled by a white society.Sudan ,Punt and beyond is god's land as the Egyptian refer to it.That is where their ancestors and their gods came from.See hatshepsut recording
Literally nobody believes they are white.
@@rudyyorke6053 relax dude, we know they weren’t white
lol i hate ppl like u.. take a deep breath with the racial garbage.. we all kno they weren't white. calm down bruh
Nobody thinks that at all. Way to be a total racist. Literally no one thinks that Egyptians were white. You just want to denigrate white people by making them out to be ignorant and ethnocentric.
So that's why my teacher paused and fast forwarded at 9:55
When tv was still great…not anymore 😢
Baufre looks like he came straight out of a 1970s cop show.
Macaulay Culkin.
How could you watch this on your free time
We had no access to PBS, and am sorry I missed this as a child. But, I certainly had pyramid mania from watching reruns of 2 Hollywood classics:
Land of the Pharoahs plays into every child's fantasy of treasure rooms, secret passages and amazing feats of construction. Also, a bit in The Ten Commandments, especially when Prince Moses shows how an obelisk was set up.
I think of how much was known at the time of this documentary. But how much more is continually coming to light thanks to scanning technology.
Not long ago, a scientist from France solved one of the great mysteries of pyramid construction: how the huge stone blocks were dragged higher and higher. Instead of building a ramp several miles long, they used the pyramid itself as the ramp. Does anyone out there have the link?
the "humph" after the 3rd queen shut down the main one haha
We have to do a 11 slide slideshow project
I use to watch this stuff as a kid . 🎉
Dis is very very good video my teacher made me watch i like it a lot
Love 70s dollar store Dan Aykroyd haha, David and PBS did greatly
Thank you
No sockets no machines, bulbs blenders
but so nice to be made an animë suggesting those!
It's like an I, Claudius reunion
Seeing these people with the proper darker skin tones just feels right! Great vid.
Huh???
@@Patrick3183 read it again. They gave the characters the proper skin color.
@@korey15 proper? Who said it wasn’t proper?
@@Patrick3183 dawg go away lol
Its not proper....they weren't white but weren't this dark either.
Cool video
23:50
wtf does that mean when u got disowned
It occurred to me..."WHY did not the Egyptians experiment with say monkey brains. I mean, the doctors did learn how to repair broken arms and legs " I am guessing by animal husbandry practices FIRST. They did have anesthetic type drugs (opium or some other) and they had sharp knives (flint can be sharper than a razor blade) and had copper saws so going through bone would not be a problem....and yet they never experimented to find out what the brain was? If they had hooks to hook the brain out through the nose, then they also could remove part of the skull to poke at various points(like neuro-surgeons do today)
. It seems for a civilization so advanced, they are learning by observations(watching the night sky to see the patterns repeat to figure out a year has 365 1/4 days in it. They invented TAXES. And yet they were not curious about the brain?
It's a good and valid question to ask.
There are a lot of other things to consider. Was Egyptian culture a culture that encouraged or even tolerated the kind of curiosity you need? Possibly not.
Also, perhaps the preconditions necessary for such experimentation were present, but no one thought to put them together in the right way.
I recommend some other works to you as a followup to your question.
Two are James Burke's series, "The Day the Universe Changed", and "Connections". Burke looks at events that took place, intellectual events, that led to some new way of looking at things.
And the other is Carl Sagan's "Cosmos", especially episode 7, "The Backbone of Night". In that episode, as part of the narrative, Sagan looks at the explosion of what we would call scientific thought in the Greek colonies in Ionia, and how the broader culture impacted what could have been a revolution in thought.
They're all things to consider, when we ask, "Why did this people do this or not do this?"
Monkeys were sacred animals
23:57--"My father's tomb? *NOOOOOOO!!!!!* "
something I've always wondered is why weren't the pyramids of giza decorated? the step pyramid of djoser at saqqara was so why would they have all of a sudden stop?
This period in ancient Egyptian history is thought, by what remains of their sculpture to have been era of elegance and austerity. Wall painting was probably seen as a "lesser art," inappropriate for a king. This sentiment changed, of course.
Expository infodump: yr doin it right
This should be the top comment.