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Boring History for Sleep | Every Pharaoh Dynasty of Ancient Egypt

Boring History for Sleep | Every Pharaoh Dynasty of Ancient Egypt
2 h 26 min

From Narmer and the first kings of Abydos to Nectanebo II, the last native pharaoh, and the final royal cartouche carved at Esna. Narrated gently, the way an ancient scribe might have read the king list aloud by lamplight — a companion to this site’s timeline.

Chapters

  1. 0:00 Settling In
  2. 2:35 The Lists Themselves
  3. 9:27 A King and His Names
  4. 15:32 The First Kings
  5. 24:10 The Second and Third Dynasties
  6. 33:24 The Fourth Dynasty
  7. 43:48 The Kings of the Sun
  8. 53:53 The First Quiet Time
  9. 1:02:53 The Twelfth Dynasty
  10. 1:12:43 The Crowded Centuries
  11. 1:22:19 The Early Eighteenth Dynasty
  12. 1:32:20 The Sun Disk and the Boy King
  13. 1:41:29 The Ramesside Kings
  14. 1:54:15 Kings of Many Cities
  15. 2:03:57 The Last Native Kings
  16. 2:13:23 The Last Cartouches
  17. 2:23:07 Closing

Visuals in NeoKemet films are AI-assisted archaeological reconstructions, not photographs or footage. Narration is written for the channel and sources are listed in each video's YouTube description.

3rd Dynasty

Djoser

Builder of the first pyramid · c. 2667–2648 BCE

Known in his own time by his Horus name Netjerikhet, Djoser ruled from Memphis at the dawn of the Old Kingdom. His reign is remembered for one revolutionary idea: building for…

The Giza pyramids as Khufu's successors would have seen them, cased in polished white limestone.

4th Dynasty

Khufu

Cheops to the Greeks · c. 2589–2566 BCE

Son of Sneferu, the most prolific pyramid builder in Egyptian history, Khufu inherited both the know-how and the organisation to attempt something without precedent. The result…

12th Dynasty

Senusret III

The warrior king of Nubia · c. 1870–1831 BCE

Senusret III campaigned repeatedly in Nubia and fixed Egypt's southern frontier at Semna with a boundary stela warning his successors not to give up an inch of it. A system of…

18th Dynasty

Hatshepsut

Foremost of noble women · c. 1473–1458 BCE

Daughter of Thutmose I and widow of Thutmose II, Hatshepsut acted as regent for her young stepson Thutmose III before taking the full titles of king. Her reign was prosperous and…

18th Dynasty

Akhenaten

The heretic king · c. 1352–1336 BCE

Born Amenhotep IV, he changed his name to Akhenaten — "effective for the Aten" — and made the sun disc the centre of state religion. The temples of Amun were closed and the god's…

18th Dynasty

Tutankhamun

The boy king · c. 1336–1327 BCE

Born Tutankhaten, probably a son of Akhenaten, the young king changed his name to Tutankhamun as the court returned to Thebes and Memphis and the old gods were restored.

19th Dynasty

Ramesses II

Ramesses the Great · c. 1279–1213 BCE

The third king of the 19th Dynasty, Ramesses II outlived many of his children and became, in later memory, the model of what a pharaoh should be. Nine later kings took his name.

30th Dynasty

Nectanebo II

The last native pharaoh · 360–343 BCE

Nectanebo II came to power by deposing his uncle Teos and spent much of his reign preparing for a Persian invasion. At the same time he sponsored a remarkable wave of temple…

Cut-away 3D model of Tutankhamun's tomb beneath the valley floor, showing the stairway, corridor, antechamber, annexe, painted burial chamber and treasury.

KV62

Tomb of Tutankhamun

Valley of the Kings, western Thebes

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…

Cut-away 3D model of the tomb of Seti I descending through the hillside, from the entrance stairway to the pillared burial chamber and the tunnel beyond.

KV17

Tomb of Seti I

Valley of the Kings, western Thebes

Seti I, father of Ramesses II, commissioned the most ambitious tomb in the valley. The Theban Mapping Project describes it as the longest and deepest tomb in the valley, and…

Cut-away 3D model of Nefertari's tomb, showing the upper antechamber and side chamber, the descending stairway and the four-pillared burial chamber below.

QV66

Tomb of Nefertari

Valley of the Queens, western Thebes

Built for the favourite wife of Ramesses II, QV66 is often called the Sistine Chapel of ancient Egypt. Its walls show Nefertari guided by gods through the afterlife on a…