The Last Pharaoh of Egypt Wasn't Even Egyptian

The last pharaoh of Egypt was Greek. She grew up in the greatest library on Earth, spoke perhaps nine languages, and was the first ruler of her three-hundred-year dynasty who bothered to learn Egyptian. Then she gambled the world's oldest civilization on two Romans — and lost to a third. In this documentary, we follow how the oldest empire on Earth actually died: Alexander crowned pharaoh without a fight, the Ptolemies who married their own sisters, Rome quietly buying the kingdom through debt, Cleopatra's two great gambles (Caesar and Antony), the stolen will that sold a war, the disaster at Actium, a suicide that denied Rome its parade — and the quiet ending nobody talks about: Egypt demoted from civilization to one man's private farm. Then the deeper death: the last hieroglyph, carved in 394 AD, and fourteen centuries of silence until a broken stone brought the voices back. This is the final chapter of our series on the three deaths of ancient Egypt. Chapter one (who really built the pyramids), two (the drought that killed the Old Kingdom) and three (the Sea Peoples) are on the channel. Next: the empire that buried Egypt — and how it dug its own grave. CHAPTERS 00:00 The last pharaoh 00:44 A Greek becomes pharaoh 01:37 Alexandria: the paradox 02:21 Rome moves in 03:07 The girl in the library 03:50 A throne split in half 04:18 The gamble: Caesar 05:44 The Ides of March 05:58 The golden barge: Antony 06:34 Too far: the Donations 07:30 Actium 08:21 The last days 08:37 Her final move 10:05 The missing tomb 10:39 Egypt becomes a farm 11:17 The second death: memory 11:54 The stone that spoke 12:48 The next empire Music: "Ibn Al-Noor" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... #Cleopatra #AncientEgypt #History