Egypt's most famous dynasty builds an empire, raises Karnak and Luxor, experiments with Akhenaten's sun-disc religion and produces Tutankhamun.
Order and dates of rulers are debated for many dynasties. Names in gold have a full profile.
KV34
Cut high in a cleft of the cliffs and reached by a steep stair, KV34 was designed to be hidden. Its oval burial chamber is painted with the complete Amduat, the guide to the sun…
KV43
Thutmose IV, father of Amenhotep III, was buried in a tomb whose axis bends twice at right angles, a layout typical of the mid 18th Dynasty. Only two rooms were painted: the well…
KV62
Small for a royal tomb, KV62 may originally have been prepared for someone else and adapted after the king's early death. Only the burial chamber is decorated, with scenes…
History for Sleep · 2 h 26 min · 20 Sept 2026 · 17 chapters
A slow, calm walk through every dynasty of ancient Egypt — from Narmer to Nectanebo II — read one name at a time, for sleep.
Playlist: Sleep Documentaries
24 minDocumentary
Every royal pyramid was broken open and emptied. Nine hundred years of pyramid building treated as an engineering programme — and why it was shut down.
2 h 38 minHistory for Sleep
Three thousand years of ancient Egyptian history, narrated slowly and quietly for sleep — told through the objects that survived.
Documentary · Coming soon
Sledges, wet sand, river barges and ramps — the archaeological evidence for how Egyptians moved colossal stones.
Complete Reference · Coming soon
A dynasty-by-dynasty reference guide to the rulers of ancient Egypt, from the First Dynasty to the Thirtieth.
History for Sleep · Coming soon
A slow walk through the royal tombs of the Valley of the Kings, from KV34 to KV62, narrated for sleep.
