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18. Egypt - Fall of the Pharaohs: chapters
Timestamps from the YouTube edition.
- A medieval visitor at Giza
- Monuments and the scope of the story
- River, climate and early settlement
- The two lands
- Travel and river landscapes
- Floods and agriculture
- Narmer and unification
- Writing, kingship and embalming
- Burial and the royal capital
- Djoser’s architectural ambition
- Labour and administration
- Sneferu and Meidum
- Bent and Red Pyramids
- Supplying the Great Pyramid
- Later Giza monuments
- Tomb security and changing priorities
- Expeditions and regional power
- Fragmentation and accounts of crisis
- Rival kingdoms
- Reunification and literature