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The History of Ancient Egypt

Auteur(s): Bob Brier, The Great Courses
Narrateur(s): Bob Brier
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Ancient Egyptian civilization is so grand our minds sometimes have difficulty adjusting to it. It lasted 3,000 years, longer than any other on the planet. Its Great Pyramid of Cheops was the tallest building in the world until well into the 19th century and remains the only Ancient Wonder still standing. And it was the most technologically advanced of the ancient civilizations, with the medical knowledge that made Egyptian physicians the most famous in the world.

Yet even after deciphering its hieroglyphs, and marveling at its scarabs, mummies, obelisks, and sphinxes, Egyptian civilization remains one of history's most mysterious, as "other" as it is extraordinary. This chronological survey presents the complete history of ancient Egypt's three great Kingdoms: the Old Kingdom, when the pyramids were built and Egypt became a nation under the supreme rule of the pharaoh and the rules of Egyptian art were established; the Middle Kingdom, when Egypt was a nation fighting to restore its greatness; and the New Kingdom, when all the names we know today-Hatshepsut, Tutankhamen, Ramses the Great, Cleopatra, and others-first appeared. Professor Brier's 48 lectures glisten with the kind of vivid anecdotes and human glimpses that make this ancient world breathe again.

"The fun of history is in the details," he notes. "Knowing that Ramses the Great was crippled by arthritis for the last decade of his long life makes us more sympathetic to the boastful monarch who fathered more than 100 children. If we understand what it was like to be a miner sent to the turquoise mines in the Sinai mountains in the summer, we will feel a kinship with our long-dead counterparts."

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©1999 The Teaching Company, LLC (P)1999 The Great Courses

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Dated but entertaining

A bit like Andrew Cuomo teaching you about Egyptian history. Entertaining but missing a lot of the basics of good history. Weirdly very few dates and almost zero context for what else was happening during the various reigns. This must have been a conscious choice.

If this course was done again, I also imagine it would spend less time admiring the discoverers and more time debating their ethics.

Overall engaging but I didn't learn as much as I would have liked.

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  • 2018-10-03

A Moderately Entertaining Dive

A Moderately Entertaining Dive

This lecture series was a nice relaxing listen. The lecturer takes true delight in sharing his insights into he subject, and this really lends the whole series an air of excitement.

My only criticism is that I tend to prefer a more in depth, or shall I say, focused series when selecting these sorts of lectures. I like more detail oriented history books and lectures; less of the broad strokes kind that this series presents.

It’s very good introduction to the study of ancient Egypt. However for those of us who have already done some reading, it may fall a bit flat.

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3000 years through time

I absolutely loved this lecture. Very informative, entertaining, and mind opening. So many different occurrences and individuals throughout this 3000 year period. Once the greatest power on the earth, this lecture is worth the listen!

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Absolutely great

This is an extremely interesting and well developed lecture series on Egypt. A lot of the information was new to me but I found it easy to follow and very informative.

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It was like I was re-living a nightmare University

I couldn't get past the first segment where he spent 20 minutes talking about biases. This guy is a total snooze factor, the context may be interesting but I couldn't get too far into it as he was lecturing about biases and how his way was the right way to interpret Egpyt. Not what I expected at all, and I am VERY glad it was free or I would have been trying to get my money back.

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very interesting but has it's inaccuracies .

very interesting but has it's inaccuracies. for example the professor talks about Palestine mote than once at a time when historically it did not yet exist.

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A lot of fun

My first great courses listen. Great speaker! Thanks YouTuber Lindybiege for recommending audible and great courses.

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Excellent to discover Egypt's history

Narrator's excellent storytelling skills. Storyline very clear. Brief summary and highlights from previous chapters included at the beginning of each chapter. Highly recommend for those desiring the discover Egypt's history.

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Couldn't stop listening

The speaker was so enthusiastic about the topic that they brought so much life to the history and mythologies of ancient Egypt. It reminded me of listening to my very enthusiastic biology professor in University who could get you extraordinarily excited about photosynthesis. I could listen to this person talk about history all the time. beyond that the content was well structured and broad.

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great course, great Prof and great facts

Super cool professor, I liked his way of talking it was so relaxing. I started thinking about ancient Egypt all the time and annoying my friends and family with facts about the ancient kings and queens.

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