Chronologically survey the full 3,000 years of recorded ancient Egyptian history led by an Egyptologist and Senior Research Fellow at the C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Introduction
- 02: Prehistoric Egypt
- 03: Ancient Egyptian Thought
- 04: Napoleon and the Beginnings of Egyptology
- 05: The Rosetta Stone, and Much More
- 06: The First Nation in History
- 07: The Rise of the Old Kingdom
- 08: Sneferu, the Pyramid Builder
- 09: The Great Pyramid of Giza
- 10: The End of the Old Kingdom
- 11: The First Intermediate Period
- 12: The Middle Kingdom-Dynasty XI
- 13: The Middle Kingdom-Dynasty XII
- 14: The Second Intermediate Period
- 15: Joseph in Egypt
- 16: The Beginning of the New Kingdom-The Fabulous XVIIIth Dynasty
- 17: Queen Hatshepsut
- 18: Obelisks
- 19: Tuthmosis III-King At Last
- 20: The Fabulous XVIIIth Dynasty Rolls On
- 21: Akhenaten the Heretic Pharaoh
- 22: The Discovery of Tutankhamen's Tomb
- 23: The Murder of Tutankhamen-A Theory
- 24: Medicine-The Necessary Art
- 25: The End of Dynasty XVIII
- 26: Mummification-How We Know What We Know
- 27: What Mummies Tell Us
- 28: Making a Modern Mummy
- 29: Dynasty XIX Begins
- 30: Ramses the Great-The Early Years
- 31: Ramses the Great-The Later Years
- 32: The Exodus-Did It Happen?
- 33: The Decline of Dynasty XIX
- 34: Dynasty XX-The Decline Continues
- 35: Ancient Egyptian Magic
- 36: Dynasty XXI-Egypt Divided
- 37: Dynasty XXII-Egypt United
- 38: Dynasty XXV-The Nubians Have Their Day
- 39: Dynasty XXVI-The Saite Period
- 40: Dynasty XXVII-The Persians
- 41: Dynasties XXVIII to XXXI-The Beginning of the End
- 42: Alexander the Great
- 43: The First Ptolemies
- 44: The Middle Ptolemies-The Decline
- 45: Animal Mummies
- 46: Cleopatra's Family
- 47: Cleopatra-The Last Ptolemy
- 48: The Grand Finale
Taught by
Bob Brier, Ph.D.
