Far in the distance, three colossal shapes tower over the desert horizon… In this episode, we travel to the Nile Valley, and tell the story of one of the most iconic cultures ever produced by humankind – the civilizations of ancient Egypt. I want to show how this series of related cultures grew up in the floodplains of their great river, and built some of the most enduring and recognizable structures in the world. And I want to tell the story of what happened to bring the age of the Pharaohs finally and cataclysmically to an end. SOURCES: https://www.patreon.com/posts/sources-for-18-96846659 ** Fall of Civilizations is now available in book form! ** BUY HERE: https://linktr.ee/fallofcivilizations Credits: Michael Hajiantonis Nick Denton Paul Casselle Alexandra Boulton Tom Marshall-Lee Rhy Brignell Peter Walters Lachlan Lucas Narrated and produced by Paul Cooper Sound engineering by Alexey Sibikin Readings in Arabic by Nassim El-Boujjoufi Readings in reconstructed ancient Egyptian by Seqnenra (Mohammad Habib) and Doha Abd Allah Amin Title theme: Home At Last by John Bartmann https://johnbartmann.com/ Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT6Y5JJPKe_JDMivpKgVXew/join Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:05:30 - The Nile 00:14:10 - Unification by Narmer 00:20:10 - Djoser and the Step Pyramid 00:28:40 - The Age of Pyramids 01:03:34 - Khufu and Pyramid Construction 01:14:49 - Decline of the Old Kingdom Tomb 01:31:06 - The Middle Kingdom 01:51:00 - Feline friends 02:07:16 - The Hyksos Invasion 02:22:00 - Hatshepsut 02:34:20 - Akhenaten’s Religious Revolution 02:43:30 - Ramesses II and Kadesh 03:09:31 - Fall of the Empire Begins 03:21:00 - Rise of the High Priests 03:26:00 - Nubian Revival 03:35:00 - Assyrian Conquest 03:42:00 - Foreign Rule 03:45:55 - Last of the Hieroglyphs 03:50:00 - Ozymandias and the Harper’s Song