Ancient Egypt: History in an Hour

but a new and great power was rising in the region – the power of Alexander the Great of Macedon.

Nefertari, for whom the sun does shine.

Nectanebo II was the last ruler of Egypt who could claim genuine Egyptian origin until the revolution which brought General Neguib to power in 1952, some 2,300 years later.

Crews working on the site adopted names such as ‘Friends of Khufu’ and ‘The Drunken Gang’ and they were very competitive in terms of achieving their daily quotas.

The dead were buried facing west towards Libya, perhaps looking to their original homeland, and the concept that the western bank of the Nile was the realm of the dead was to remain a feature of Egyptian culture and was a belief that gave rise in modern times to the phrase ‘gone west’.