Every Empire Fell in One Generation. Egypt Survived.

Around 1200 BC, every superpower of the Bronze Age burned within a single lifetime. The Hittite Empire vanished. Mycenaean Greece collapsed so hard it forgot how to write. The richest port of the age fell before its king's last letter could even be sent. The survivors kept writing down the same words: they came from the sea. In this documentary, we follow history's first recorded apocalypse: the mysterious Sea Peoples, the drought revealed by pollen cores under the Sea of Galilee, the tin supply line that connected — and doomed — the ancient world, and the last great pharaoh, Ramesses III, who turned the Nile delta into a trap and stopped the wave that had swallowed every other empire. Victory came with a price: the first labor strike in human history, a palace conspiracy, and a throat cut to the bone. This is the third chapter in our series on the three deaths of ancient Egypt — the collapse that killed everyone EXCEPT Egypt. Chapters one (who really built the pyramids) and two (the drought that killed the Old Kingdom) are on the channel. Chapter four — Cleopatra and the final death — is coming. CHAPTERS 00:00 Every empire burned 00:48 The connected world 01:11 The tin problem 02:56 The fires begin 03:35 Ugarit: the last letter 04:12 Who were the Sea Peoples? 04:53 The drought in the mud 05:40 The cascade 06:24 The last great pharaoh 07:58 Egypt wins — and pays 08:43 The first strike in history 09:37 The empire lets go 10:57 What really ended the world 11:41 The mirror 12:28 The third death Music: "Ibn Al-Noor" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... #AncientEgypt #BronzeAgeCollapse #History