The Empire That Built the Pyramids Died of Thirst

The empire that built the Great Pyramid ruled the Nile for almost a thousand years — then it collapsed in a single generation, without a single invading army. In this documentary, we follow the evidence of history's first recorded climate collapse: the endless reign of Pepi II, the Nile floods that failed for decades, the scribe who wrote "the river is blood," the governor who carved famine into his own tomb, and the mud, ice and stone that finally revealed the killer — the 4.2 kiloyear event, a megadrought that brought down empires on three continents at once. This is the second chapter in our series on the three deaths of ancient Egypt. The first chapter — who really built the pyramids — is on the channel. The third — the Sea Peoples and the Bronze Age apocalypse — is coming next. CHAPTERS 00:00 An empire dies with no enemy 00:50 The perfect machine 02:35 The boy king who would not die 03:59 The flood fails 04:52 "The river is blood" 05:24 Famine carved in stone 06:28 Reading the mud 07:31 The 4.2 kiloyear event 07:59 Why the Nile really died 08:49 Death of the eternal king 09:49 The builders walk away 10:39 Egypt reborn, changed 11:07 What really killed the empire 11:55 The mirror 12:51 The next death Music: "Ibn Al-Noor" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... #AncientEgypt #History #ClimateChange