Perspective Exclusive: Exploring Ancient Egyptian Scribes
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- While the graphic art of Ancient Egypt is very familiar, little is known about the artists, the scribes. Who were were they? How important were they to the society of the Pharaohs? From Saqqara to the Valley of Kings enjoy this look at the lives of the first "historians" in the human record.
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This is a FIVE STAR film...the best documentary that I have ever seen about ancient Egypt. It explains, with the most beautiful imagery, the creation and purpose of Egyptian hieroglyphics and art. Extraordinary! Inspirational!
Why not 5 stars then?
Right on!👌👍
I am a modern day scribe, draftsperson and designer, and I think you have it exactly right. Ayla is right, as well.
Egyptians were a Caucasoid people.
Absolutely 💯 ‼️
This was soooo good. I did not want it to end! Thank you very much!!
The Egyptian reminds me of how we draw, when we first learn to draw.
The Egyptians used drawing for most things important. Like writing.
The many art work that is shown is definitely not European or Caucasian!
I have seen this documentary 4 times at least, one of the best here on CZcams. Everything needs to watch if you enjoy Egyptian culture and customs.🇪🇬
You're BACK!! Love every single one of your fabulous videos!!!
Thank you very much for the beautiful contour-specific episode on Ancient Egyptian art, and the heart warming flutes made from the reeds that thrive on the Nile banks.
That unfinished tomb with the grid pattern is fascinating as can be. As an artist I’m captivated by the ability to see the “process”. Amazing
Same here...AND the gorgeous, unpainted, figurative relief-work in the "Rameses" tomb, with eyes detailed in black!
Horemheb had a decent length of reign (although he wasn't young when he gained the throne), and as a commoner he already had a magnificent tomb and forecourt in Saqqara, so I'm a bit puzzled by the incompleteness of his royal tomb KV57. Why didn't Paramesse and his son make a bigger effort to finish it, or were they too preoccupied with asserting the Ramesside claim to the succession?
@@thomasdykstra100 Translation should have read "Ramose", a vizier in the 18th Dynasty. Tomb TT55
Valdemar, you are AMAZING! Thank you so much for these extraordinary documentaries.
Wonderful documentary with such fascinating details!
Omg an actual documentary about ancient Egypt! So much of what I've tried to watch is trash that I couldn't even learn anything I didn't know from a semester of undergrad (or, worse, it's that terrible alien propaganda). Thank you for making/releasing this.
Ah, a Perspective documentary on my homeland. Beautifully presented, thank you~ The dance with the stick is still a part of the North's tradition. It's called Saidi.
i miss my home ♥🇪🇬
Stick fighting is found throughout Africa.
Stick fighting is a southern thing in Egypt actually. I’m Egyptian.
@@DrGogu-yd6jc it's a traditional thing in that comes from the North. Doesn't mean it can't be done anywhere else. :)
@@nefwaenre it actually went from South to North. It is practiced in Sudan, West Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa. It is an African thing.
@@DrGogu-yd6jc i was wondering do you consider yourself african?
Great documentary. First class, thank you.
Hooray for Perspective!
😀 Extremely informative and held my interest 😀 very thought provoking 😀 Thanks
A great film with a more indept look at Egyptian living and death than we hear in the usual documentary of Egypt pharaohs and the everyday civilians of the time.
Such a beautiful documentary..
The hair details in King Ramses’ tomb is incredible.
Awesome doc u guys, watching it again now!👌
Masterful presentation. Thank you. One criticism however: Do away with the "voice-over" at such a high volume! This may not be a problem for those who only understand one language, but if you speak at least two or more languages, it's nothing but a jumble of noise. Subtitles may work better. Or simply eliminate the original speaker's voice and permit the translator to get on with it. Just an idea.
This is a very good documentary 👏
Got my subscription. Excellent documentary
Beautiful video and very interesting and educational program thank you for making it available to see
Magnificent documentary! Brilliant research and reportage… very illuminating. Thank you
Sensational, thank you!
It's ironic that at 6:12 to 6:38 the scholar explains that you would never find a painting, wall relief depiction, or sculpture of an individual without a name because it served no purpose; would be considered dead/inert. Yet, the beginning of this documentary heavily features "the seated scribe" (at the 2:00 mark) that has no name. No inscription at all. With physical features of someone from Europe out of scope of named and inscribed scribe depictions of scribes depicted elsewhere. A dubious piece that is said to be found by Auguste Mariette in 1850 in Saqqara even though Mariette didn't find any artifacts in Egypt until 1851 and none of Mariette's works discuss nor illustrate "the seated scribe," that of course has no name - no inscription at all.
Possibly a forgery. It has also been suggested by some that the famous bust of Nefertiti may also be a forgery as the ancient Egyptians were not really known for their realistic depictions of people. For them realism or naturalism in art doesn't seem to have been very important.
Believe it or not,This youtube app completely deleted my comment while I was typing it....All this is bs starting with the idiots trying to tell someone else's story....Dig up Moses & put him on display or any of the characters in their books ..grave robbing bastard thieves
They appear to have painted people in differing skin-tones. I would say realism was somewhat important to them.
Ancient Egypt docu??? instant like and viewing. Nice to watch in this insane planet
Brilliant, beautiful!
So informative...
Great job! I learned so much.
THESE ARE AWESOME! THANKS 😊
So amazing so we'll done. So much information so much beauty. One of the best I've seen. Thankyou for sharing this wonderful film 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.
Utterly fascinating film about the complex character of the ancient Egyptian civilization... Very well done!
This is the best art history channel ever. I love watching all the videos.
This is a very informative documentary. I like how it explains the importance of scribes in correlation to artwork. I do want to preface that these documentaries are not school appropriate, as I teach art history. Good thing I knew this going forward...
Great stuff here!!!
Yes Beautiful Black Ancient African Art
Yes Rahotep and nofret and the seated scribes statues are totally black people, you’ll probably say they’re fake though 😂
Doubtless there were Nubian scribes.
@@jeff1993. Rahotep has had the brown paint scraped off. Just look at the forehead and fingers and see the true color. When they scrape the black/brown paint it looks pale
@@baerkaabnaab2388 no evidence of that buddy, that’s what you wish it is, the statues are thousands of years old…..
@@baerkaabnaab2388 why would anyone scratch the paint off? You know how crazy you sound?
Very informative, the art is fantastic.
Great presentation!
Great! Thanks!
Beautiful work
Best of the best!Thank you.Namaste.
The monumental exercise in futility. Beautiful and comprehensive film.
Fantastic!
An excellent video, but I do take exception to the fact that pictures and text that were obviously in the same hand proves that the artist could read. It does not.
Once, a friend's mother knitted me a sweater. She did not read English, so I asked my neighbour to write a thank you letter in Urdu for me to copy. My neighbour looked at the finished results and was shocked that it looked as if it had been written by someone with a university level education. My friend's mother would not accept that I was not fluent in Urdu, yet I had no idea what I was writing.
A good artist can copy anything, and I am just an adequate artist, yet achieved it twice.
The other time was with Arabic decorative script used on an image of a mosque. This was to be published, so the publishers had it checked; the Islamic scholar approached said that it was "perfect", and had been written by an "expert", yet I had copied it from a photograph.
So, in my opinion, the "evidence" is being used to prove more than it actually does.
Similarly, in Europe, when Latin was used in legal documents, scribes would copy a model document without ever being able to understand the language.
Excellent documentary 👏👏👏👏
This was refreshing, packed full of information that I've not heard regurgitated 1000 times by shorts makers or Tic-toc'ers, give it another week or two though. 🙏🤔🤭🤬
There are many similarities to the designs used in Native American culture, interesting.
Similar to the designs of other African cultures. Africans did settle the Americas long before Columbus or Amerigo de Vespucci.
@@listenup2882 Amen
Why don’t you show all of the many, many images of blank and brown Egyptians?
@APEP HATEM Egyptians are descended from Mizraim, one of the sons of Ham in Genesis 10:6 in the Bible. All Black people are descended from Ham, including the ancient Egyptians who were not the wheat-colored Arabs “we” see today. Black and brown ancient Egyptians are not shown due to racism of whites and Arabs, who sell racist figurines of Black men to this day near the same pyramids that Black Egyptians built.
@@debrajohnson3851 Amen. Those Arabs currently residing in the land of Kemet are descendants of Arab invaders, not descendants of Pre-Dynastic or Dynastic Kemet. They always use the word “we” like they made any contributions to this marvelous indigenous African Civilization. There is no excuse for any intelligent person to deny that the early Nile Valley inhabitants were true Africans. Ancient writers all the way to todays researchers have verified this.
@APEP HATEM We. You transplant. Like the white people of America. Go back 1000 years. Not one white person. Look what happened in 400 year's. You don't think the same thing happened in Egypt. Look how dark the present day people look in the Nile valley. Still black. You know why? Because Muslims see black as evil. The Quran states it. Your prophet Muhammad hated black people. He idolized white skin
@APEP HATEM ☝️😂 an Afrocentric is mad lol.
@@debrajohnson3851 yeah black Egyptians built the pyramids and all just left down south and live in poor cities now yeah right. pyramids were built in the old kingdom, Rahotep and nofret, seated scribe, ptahkhenuwy and his wife, statue of Kai from Giza are statues from the old kingdom, yeah totally black people all right 😆
My Ancestors
nice, thank you
As always , great film. Much appreciated 🙏 As an Egyptian, this information made me so proud!
yoda-if your ancestors were from the middle east, youre a descendant of the invaders, circa 600 ad, and can only be proud of striping pyramids to build mosques, garbage and fllth in 3000 years old monuments. telling people , or inferring your ancestors built something , you as a descendant know nothing of is more theft and lies.period. to show you all how fowl you people are, indigenous blacks, are left out of the 15 billion a year, taken in by african achievement. you got nothing to be proud of mentioned in this documentary, unless lying and usurping others achievement are now laudable.
But the creators of Egypt now live in eastern/ western Africa, present day Egyptians are the invaders, the later Egypt
Thank you!
Almost touching somehow. A really good one.
Love middle eastern art from Egypt to India ❤
As maravilhas de antigo Egipto ñ há comparação. Uma civilização única.
Wondrous presentation, thank you
Thanks!
I bet they had a huge surprise when it came to the "afterlife".
Just rewatched this DOCU once again and I can confirm that is very interesting, and very well made, in short, it is GREAT! The only critique I have about the filming is: show less of the narrator's faces and more about the artifacts spoken about, but this is probably only my taste. I love the Greek former director of the Turin Egyptian Museum: she did very well there from what I've heard ( it's too long since I didn't return to that wonderful museum to see that in person, which is somehow comparable to Luxor's museum, even if the former one has incredible pieces)...
I agree .
I agree with you. Too many egos showing up in some of these videos. We don't need to see people's faces when we could be seeing the artifacts
@@heenanyou ,why are so many people commenting on the video . The narrator doesn't need to be seen . As it is a distraction .
Great Ancient Black African status.
@APEP HATEM go and read your history books properly and use common sense and stop sitting on others history. You are one of the invaders offspring. Even herodutos said black skinned with woolly hair. What makes me laugh is that in recent times a lot of you guys agreed that the so called black nubuians ruled Egpyt at one point apparently because all truths can no longer be denied. How interesting is it that non white people all over the world will always want to put the black race down LOL. So the so called dumb race ruled Egypt for a while
@APEP HATEM don’t listen to black people about Egypt, 95 percent of them say they were black because they’re biased, they just ignore statues and dna. Yeah blacks built Egypt and then all just left down south and live in poor countries now.,.yeah ok lol
Another culture vulture. Get a life
قدماء المصريين مصريين ليست افريقي ليست سود البشرة بعضهم سمراء اللون من سمرة الشمس احنا مذكورين فى القرآن الكريم وعندنا والأدلة لا تنسبو أشياء ليست لكم
أنا أعتذر لا أقصد الإساءة عن قولى لون البشرة السودة هذا خلق الله
They look just like me in those tomb drawings!
What is that song during the ending Credits? It is hauntingly beautiful.
Love to Egypt 🇪🇬 form Canada 🇨🇦 hope to visit your magical nation someday
One thing guys - the OST is just AMAZING!!! It is a pity that it was not released in official distribution for purchase. 😪
HI TO YOU FROM LORD CHARLES BORROWS GOOD JOB M8 FROM U.K. XX
Notice all the people Are all colors of brown, Not white !
2 voices doing my head in,subtitles would be so much better.
Wonderful! Nefer as the Ancient Egyptians would say. Loved the ending showing contemporary Egyptians still working the land and fishing as their ancestors did!
It's strange that reconstruction of the Egyptian Monuments is taking much longer than the Original work . The Stone Masons of ancient times were remarkable in their precision and dedication in everything they built and erected. It seems that nobody wants to even attempt to re-create their work on any kind of scale other than a very few minor tries that just don't amount to anything. After centuries of study it still can't be figured out exactly how this extraordinary volume of construction and artwork was accomplished.
ur a naive human being
Fascinating documentation. On or around the same period, there were other great civilisations that existed,i.e; Mesopitamion & Indus Vally ( Harrapan ). No written or lack of written records exists, other than artifacts used during the times. Maybe these are yet to be discovered in the Iraqi and Indian regions.
Nupuqi Om-Re Khonectics chamber degrees will guide you
esjey-2 different civilizations. and why isnt these iraqui civilizations encapsulated under a discipline like egyptology?
because the onus was on displacing the ownership of the african prototype of society, statehood, medicines, surgery, sciences, astronomy, architecture, civic and governmental responsibility, reading and writing and several other advancements, while westeners were teaching euros pioneered these things. all the fathers of greek disciplines , like medicine, philosophy, advanced math, astronomy etc , were given to greeks, who in their own words, attributed their knowledge to black scribes.
@@georgemckenzie1824 Which of the Greeks attributed their knowledge to black scribes?
@@lucillejerome5511 i knew that would be a sticking point.
one querry :Like his contemporaries, Pathgororus journeyed in his youth to Egypt where he studied for almost 15 years. He travelled to Egypt for the purpose of education, and took advantage of the friendship between his follow Greek Polycrates and Pharaoh Amasis. Polycrates gave Pythagoras a letter of introduction to Pharaoh Amasis.he admitted that many who are "celebrated among the Greeks for intelligence and learning" studied in Egypt. When Africans finished building the pyramids in 2500BC, it was 1,700 years before Homer, the first Greek writer, began writing The Iliad, the European classic.
Hippocrates was a Greek physician born during the 5th century BC. Early in his life he traveled to Egypt to study medicine. After his studies Hippocrates spends some time as a traveling teacher before returning to Athens. he credited imhotep who died thousands of years before hypocrates was born, and imotep credited his own ancestors for his knowledge.
now do we have to prove , ancient egypt was an african civilization, too?
that info was literally once click away. either the claim was to far outside your frame of reference or all blacks acknowleging their collective histories, are afrocentrics...or finally euros are all known for their complete honesty and integrity when controlling narratives to profit off of foreign policy.
@@georgemckenzie1824 I know that the Greeks learned from the Egyptians, more than we were ever taught. You said specifically "black scribes" so I asked for that information thinking you had specific information about "black scribes". Didn't expect an insult or an assault on my integrity.
This was an amazing documentary but horrified to see the restoration work being carried out so meticulously at around the 38 minute mark. Maybe the best of intentions but these people are scrubbing out so much background information that it just feels criminal to me. This could be compared to getting rid of those nasty old sketches behind leonardos paintings. Im hoping this is actually well meaning & not a cleanup of too much info for us meer mortals.
Good documentary. The origin is probably European channel Arte. I am saying this because of the presence of non English speaking Egyptologists. Instead of talking over them, why not simply offer subtitles? Having two soundtracks on top of each other confuses the audience. Especially when said audience has some knowledge of the language that is being spoken over
I hate when they do that in documentaries, it’s so confusing. Especially since I speak French and English 😞
Inana and Ebih and the Scribal Tradition
Paul Delnero
At 1 part the fighting men, maybe boys.Their not ruffians at all.Its fine white linen.The long hair is held on by bands.Probable fine expensive silver, cloth or gold.A show battle.Really cool piece.
Großartig, noch nie ist mir die künstlerische Begabung der alten Ägypter so nahe gebracht woren.
Really excellent presentation. One concern - a museum worker is shown very cautiously and carefully carrying a decorated stone to her workspace, wearing gloves as is appropriate when handling an ancient object. Then she was shown cleaning the stone using her bare hands. Were the gloves just for show?
THOSE ARE THE STONEBOOKS OF ENKI OR ENOCH
Four thousand years ago. Unbelievable antiquity. Might as well be forever in human terms
Those stones were probably akin to sketchbooks.
The way in which the documentary makers put these topics in perspective makes me wonder if the 'book of the dead' is a guide from the dead ancestors for future generations on how to live life on earth as a human being before it ends in order to enter the realm of Osiris satisfied and peacefull in a blissfull state of being.
🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽
5:58 & 10:21 can anyone give me the reason why the woman's last name is in capital letters, i believe only the first letter should be in caps.
Ancient scribes of India are called - KAYASTHA. Very similar history to the scribes of ancient Egypt. Great video thank you for uploading
Amazing that so many resources were committed to the afterlife of the elite. Makes you wonder what life was like for the average person @ the time.
Ostraca were like cartoons. Paper was almost always expensive, so artists used to find old boxes and use them to make rough drawings. These drawings were often used to practice on and make simple preliminary sketches for bigger works (as not to waste money with more expensive material during development of the work). The boxes were carton, and these more simple sketches were referred to as carton sketches which we now call, “Cartoons.” This is what ostraca were. Simple waste material used to practice your art on.
very important messenger
They probably had one artist draw all of the vertical lines and another artist draw all of the horizontal lines.
Were are the Melanated people that would have came from that region doing that time . I'm a malatto and I wouldn't be if i stayed there .Where are them people from that are telling the story ? They should tell where they come from
20:46 I wonder if this scene inspired Escher in his depictions of birds.
The descriptions on that wall are the ones that young Pharaoh having his garage
The fact that the funerary furniture found in the tomb, is made of way too many items, than could be accommodated in the small houses of Deir El Medina, is definitely because many of the items would have been specifically dedicated to the use of the deceased in the after life, never actually put in his earthly house
I wish I could watch documentaries on Ancient Egypt with having to listen to intrusive music.
scribes, how important they were during those times. becoming one was a lifelong thing. schooled in the earthly ways from a child to understanding using the elements to make many things possible. it was the early days of the kali yuga or the period of breaking solids and remaking them into solid structures in situ. some of them were the travelling scribes whose responsibility it was to travel far and wide to teach and to build or rebuild many types of structures.
Ancient scribes of India are called - kayastha. Very similar history to the scribes of ancient Egypt
was the writing done with a stencil seeing its all so the same and so perfect ... no can tell me please if anyone knows
Have you ever seen a pro. spray paint crew .... They have outliners... Fillers and detailers ....and can bust huge works in mins ....need less to say artist naturally group up to make art ... Not to imagine they didn't do the same thing Way back when when there's wasn't tvs and this jazz we have now days ... But different mediums...
That’s funny that they tried to make Imhotep white lol they were blue black
@APEP HATEM bro Egypt is in AFRICA there are black ppl there
@APEP HATEM Where did you get this date of 30000 years, care to share? When you arrived here you found no one and nothing here right🤣? By the way did you also go to Nubia/Sudan, where Egyptian culture and civilisation began, to copy it and take it back to Egypt? Why is Egyptian style art and architecture not found wherever you came from before invading if you are responsible for it as you are insinuating? You are right about one thing, you Arab invaders are not us Africans. This is Africa and all ancient art, culture and civilisation found here was built and inspired by Africans, the term sub-saharan doesn’t change that.
@APEP HATEM - culture vulture, get a life. Arab people envy black American history and style too. We survive and thrive in the belly of the beast, not submit and conform like wannabes 😌
@APEP HATEM fyi DNA has proven ancient Egyptian were black and most modern day Egyptians are a mixture of Greek, Roman, and Coptic Egyptians. Egypt was invaded and ruled by these particular nations for centuries. Egypt is in Africa so all because you are mixed does take away the realities of the original indigenous populations of Egypt. Similar to America which people think of as white, they glaze over they invaded America it doesn't make them native Americans.
@APEP HATEM YOU'RE RIGHT! YOU WERE, and STILL ARE INVADERS💡
Man look at all that Black Ancient Egypt Art.
🤣🤣🤣
Yep, they were Black so no surprise there.
@@listenup2882
Only their slaves were black.
Egyptians themselves weren't. 🙂
@@GORO911 who were their slaves other Africans?
@@IndigoChyld
Their slaves were the black Africans.
ITS WAY OLDER THAN 5000 YEARS
The pre dynastic and dynastic Egyptians came upon the wonders left behind by a precious. They never understood or were able to replicate that technology for obvious.ons. But they did adapt and build on what they found advanced technological civilisation
You're acting just like a child who still believes in Santa Claus.
The narator can read Egyptian Hyrogliphs 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾😝😯
Egypt once green til earth tilt with nibiru returns..