Love Song in Ancient Egyptian | Music Video

Due to popular demand I'm posting the same music video without the educational section. So, because of that, I am going to state some educational stuff here. What you're hearing is a phonetic (and hypothetical) reconstruction of ancient Egyptian. Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics did not preserve vowels in the language, and so we're often left with phrases like nb pt which Egyptologists (for the sake of ease and standardization) usually say as 'neb pet'. Reconstructing Egyptian accurately is quite difficult and relies on Coptic, Akkadian, and some Meroitic and Greek sources. The music is also hypothetical. Ancient Egyptians did not have a form of musical notation, unlike their neighbors in Mesopotamia, and so there's no evidence for how Egyptians tuned their instruments or what melodies they played. It's likely it would've been percussion based, at least in the beginning, as the earliest evidence for instruments found in Egypt are clappers––flat wooden or ivory sticks that are clapped together. The source for the transliteration that I used to reconstruct this poem can be found here: https://www.jstor.org/stable/601035?s... The instrument I am using is a replica of the famous Leiden Lyre found (mainly) in western Thebes. It was handcrafted in Greece by a family of Luthiers that specialize in revitalizing the ancient lyre for the modern world. Check out their work here: https://luthieros.com/ Learn more about music in ancient Egypt: https://www.cambridge.org/core/servic... https://manniche.daes.dk/wp/wp-conten... https://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/3... Learn about the language: https://theswissbay.ch/pdf/Books/Ling... ------------------------- Support me by subscribing to my Patreon:   / radioacolyte   or by giving me a tip on Kofi! https://ko-fi.com/radioacolyte