History Main / AncientEgypt

!!Series that are set in this time period include:

* ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk''.

->''"Behold the glory, behold the wonder, what we have made shall not be torn asunder. Such vast achievement, scroll and papyrus, beneath the gaze of Isis and Osiris. And the majesty, where the heavens smile. Jewel of history shining by the nile/"''

->''"Ancient Egypt has meant two things to Hollywood, Cleopatra and walking mummies."''
-->-- '''Creator/{{George MacDonald Fraser}}''', ''The Hollywood History of the World''

Venturing through this country, O Bold Troper, you will likely find merchants from faraway lands, wily thieves, ill-tempered camels, and [[AmbiguouslyBrown olive-skinned]] seductresses with braided wigs and ''kohl''-painted eyes. Also home to fanatical bald priests in lapis collars and leopard-skin robes, who usually wind up being turned into mummies after calling down the wrath of the gods upon their heads (usually for getting involved with the aforementioned beautiful olive-skinned ''kohl''-painted seductresses in some way). Wretched slaves labour to build pyramids in the scorching sun beneath the whips of merciless overseers... despite the fact that the great monuments were actually built by paid labourers with their own guilds.

* EyeOfHorusMeansEgypt: Where the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_of_Horus Eye Of Horus]] is being used to symbolize that something's Egyptian.

* EyeOfHorusMeansEgypt

* Myth/EgyptianMythology

* The Tomb Kings of ''{{Warhammer}}'' are this UpToEleven. The liche-priests told the pharaohs that they knew how to prepare bodies for life after death, ensuring them a heavenly afterlife. Unfortunately, it turns out they were only capable of raising them as mummies. Now the Tomb Kings war with ''each other'', as every one of them still thinks himself the rightful king of Khemri with a bunch of related usurpers to eliminate.

* The first world of ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2ItsAboutTime'' takes place here.

* ''Literature/AGodAgainstTheGods'' and its sequels by Alan Drury, about Akhenaten, his family, and their attempt to institute the worship of one God, Aten, the Sun Disk.

* The Tomb Kings of ''{{Warhammer}}'' are this UpToEleven. The liche-priests told the pharaohs that they knew how to prepare bodies for life after death, ensuring them a heavenly afterlife. Unfortunately, it turns out they were only capable of raising them as mummies. Now the Tomb Kings war with ''each other'', as every one of them still thinks himself the rightful king of Khemry with a bunch of related usurpers to eliminate.

* DatedHistory: Although slavery existed in Ancient Egypt [[note]]and much of it may have been closer to voluntary indentured servitude[[/note]], it is generally accepted by modern historians that its crowning achievement, the Great Pyramid of Giza, was ''not'' built by slave labour, but by the equivalent of paid contractors who were mostly skilled workers (the equivalent, because the pay took the form of food and other supplies, money not having been invented yet).
** There was a period in history, particularly during the time between the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt and deciphering the hieroglyphics, but later on as well, even well into the 20th century, when Egypt was widely considered to be the actual cradle of most if not ''all'' civilizations. It was partly due to the fact that nobody had the slightiest clue what the hieroglyphics said, what the pyramids or the Sphinx were for, nor anybody knew anything about the gods, the mummies or pretty much anything Egyptian that we take for granted nowadays. All that people saw was gigantic buildings and tombs left behind by a mysterious civilization, possibly well above the 19th century Europeans in terms of technological advancement. [[note]]Seeing as gigantic pyramid-shaped structures had been found in the Americas as well as Southeast Asia, it's rather easy to see where these ideas might have come from.[[/note]] In a scientific frenzy dubbed as "Egyptomania", lots of historians and archeologists maintained that the Greeks and Romans owed all of their knowledge to the Ancient Egyptians. It wasn't until much later than people started to analyze these assumptions critically, coming to the conclusion that, while undoubtedly advanced for its time, Ancient Egypt was no {{Atlantis}} of the sands and its direct impact on the classical European civilizations of Greece and Rome was in fact rather limited.

** The Egyptian theme carried over to their stage set for the ensuing tour. It can be seen in their concert video, "Live After Death". The stage set was re-created for their 2008 Somewhere Back In Time tour (which coincided with the DVD release of "Live After Death" and can be seen in the documentary, ""Flight 666".

** There was a period in history, particularly during the time between the Napoleonic invasion of Egypt and deciphering the hieroglyphics, but later on as well, even well into the 20th century, when Egypt was widely considered to be the actual cradle of most if not ''all'' civilizations. It was partly due to the fact that nobody had the slightiest clue what the hierpglyphics said, what the pyramids or the Sphinx were for, nor anybody knew anything about the gods, the mummies or pretty much anything Egyptian that we take for granted nowadays. All that people saw was gigantic buildings and tombs left behind by a mysterious civilization, possibly well above the 19th century Europeans in terms of technological advancement. [[note]]Seeing as gigantic pyramid-shaped structures had been found in the Americas as well as Southeast Asia, it's rather easy to see where these ideas might have come from.[[/note]] In a scientific frenzy dubbed as "Egyptomania", lots of historians and archeologists maintained that the Greeks and Romans owed all of their knowledge to the Ancient Egyptians. It wasn't until much later than people started to analyze these assumptions critically, coming to the conclusion that, while undoubtedly advanced for its time, Ancient Egypt was no {{Atlantis}} of the sands and its direct impact on the classical European civilizations of Greece and Rome was in fact rather limited.

* BrotherSisterIncest: With a religious reason (or possibly excuse). The Pharaoh's family was supposed to be descended from Ra, the chief deity of Egypt (most of the time). Thus keeping it in the family meant less human blood to dilute the divine heritage.

* ''Film/TheTenCommandments'' -- which used so many costumes, sets and props[[note]]and a couple of actors, although [=DeMille=] tried to avoid this[[/note]] from ''TheEgyptian'' that it created a sense of continuity unintended by the producers.

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* In the third book of ''TheBartimaeusTrilogy'' there are parts set in Ptolemaic Egypt. They're backstory bits of Bartimaeus with his long dead, and much cared for, master...Ptolemy.

* The Literature/{{Discworld}} novel ''{{Pyramids}}'' sends up Ancient Egypt to way past eleven. Terry Pratchett creates a country where building pyramids is all and everything and which is up to 3,000 years behind the rest of the Discworld. It takes a gifted Assassin to bring it all crumbling down.

* A number of DCComics' legacies have their origin here: ComicBook/BlueBeetle, ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}, ComicBook/DoctorFate, ComicBook/BlackAdam...