Analysis Of Egypt By Pirieenzo

The video on YouTube called “Egypt” by Pirieenzo and narrated by Simon Chilvers tells the importance of the Nile river over the ancient Egyptian civilization. The video recognizes Egypt as “the wisdom world” where treasures and tombs have been found in the deepest part of the pyramids. Nowadays, modern Egypt is a land suspended with past and many more mysteries that remain intact even though many excavations, explorations, and investigations have been made. However, the Nile river, also known as the giant river, on the video, takes the viewers into a journey through the past flowing from North to South with a distance of 6,671 kilometers. The river has an irresistible power; it is said that Egypt is a gift of the Nile to the planet Earth. Jean-Pierre Corteggiani from the French

Azza Saary El-Din, anthropologist, pyramids’ builders were not slaves. History has supported that slavery was the main reason of the monumental construction of the pyramids. However, Dr. El-Din thinks that there was a settled community who worked under the pharaoh’s rules in returned of the needed goods and a good payment. Her theory is supported with the finding of a tablet that contains the names of 40 workers in black ink and the reason of their absence to work in red ink. Dr. Jeffrey Spencer from the British Museum explains that the discovery of that tablet means that the people involved in the construction of the pyramids were free people who had their own life. During the construction of the pyramids, women were part of the labor, too, since women’s skeletons were find at the foot of the pyramids where the construction took effect. It is thought that the whole village constructed the pyramids including children. Another theory that support that the pyramids’ builders were not slaves is that there was medic attention to the workers. The excavation of bones shows that there were surgical interventions by the doctors of that time to those workers who needed