The 3 Videos

The first Video

• In 802 A.D the youngest son of Harun Al Ashid set camp at the base of the Pyramid of Kias.
• He came with hundreds of stone masons, engineers and architects. 
• His quest was to find the pharaohs treasure and the discover the secret of the weapon which does not rust from blood and water and glass which bends but does not break.  
• Scribes said all of this lied behind the stone plates of the Great Pyramid.
• Lifting the stone provides a secret passage to the grave.
• He hacked a tunnel through the pyramid but found nothing.
• Many tunnels, passageways, and rooms.

Video #2

• They found a mummy of a man named Heraclitus. 
• He died in Egypt in the first century AD when he was about 20 years old.
• Egyptians used mummification to preserve the body for the afterlife.
• They usually take out all of the organs except the heart. But on Heraclitus his lungs were there but mot his heart.
• Then the body is covered in salt for about 40 days. (No moisture left)
• Oils and resins were rubbed on the body.
• Layers of resin helped glue the linen around the body.
• The mummy was then placed on a wooden board and wrapped even more.
• A pouch was then placed on the chest.
• A mummified ibis was placed on the abdomen.
• Long linen strips secured the wrapping.
• A portrait of Heraclitus was placed over the faced and covered in 2 straps of linen.
• A large linen cloth was wrapped around the mummy.
• It was painted red and it was rare.
• Portraits of Egyptian protection were painted on the mummy.
• Heraclitus name was written in Greek at the bottom of his feet.

Video #3

• Ancient Egyptian civilization lasted from 3000 BCE to 332 BCE.
• The Nile River shaped the world view for Ancient Egypt.
•  Seeds were easy to grow near the Nile.
• The Egyptians used a technique called basin irrigation which was farmers used flood waters to fill earth and basins and canals for irrigation.
• Old Kingdom period lasted from 2649- 2152; Middle Kingdom from 2040- 1640; The New Kingdom lasted from 1550-1070 BCE.
• The pyramids were mostly built by peasants who were required by Egyptian Law to work for the government for a # of certain months per year.
• The Old Kingdom was very rich but the pharaohs started fighting over power because of the series of droughts.
• The Middle Kingdom had leaders from Nubia.
• The God ahman-ra was the best God. The pharaohs built temples for him and devoted all of their surplus to his glory.
• Egypt emerged from its geographic isolation thus the NEW KINGDOM came.
•  King Tut had to marry his sister.
• King Tut dies in 1322 BCE. 1200 years later than when the Pyramids were built.