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Imagina cruzar el umbral de una casa egipcia hace más de 3.300 años. En este video reconstruimos con inteligencia artificial el día completo de Amenhotep-sa-Hapu, un noble supervisor de los graneros reales en la ciudad sagrada de Uaset (Tebas), durante el reinado de Amenhotep III en el año 1350 a.C.
🏛 En este episodio descubrirás:
✅ Cómo eran las casas de adobe de dos pisos del Imperio Nuevo
✅ El ritual del amanecer y la oración doméstica ante Bes y Taweret
✅ Qué comían y bebían: pan de emmer, cerveza heket, guiso de lentejas con comino
✅ Por qué el kohl en los ojos era medicina, no solo cosmética
✅ Los derechos legales de las mujeres egipcias (¡más avanzados que los europeos del siglo XIX!)
✅ Cómo preparaban la tumba perfecta mientras vivían
✅ La cena con invitados, los tres vinos, la cantante del templo de Amón
✅ Cómo dormían con apoyacabezas de madera y mosquiteras de lino
✅ Los juguetes de los niños, el mono del País de Punt, los gatos sagrados de Bastet

🤖 Toda la narrativa ha sido reconstruida con inteligencia artificial a partir de:
— Textos jeroglíficos y papiros del Imperio Nuevo
— Excavaciones arqueológicas en Deir el-Medina y la necrópolis tebana
— Análisis de objetos cotidianos en los museos del Cairo, Berlín y el British Museum
— Escenas pintadas en las tumbas de Nebamun, Rekhmira y Sennefer

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00:00Imagine that dawn arrives before the sun, it arrives in color, that instant when absolute black
00:07The Nile sky breaks across the eastern horizon in a band of bright ochre, then orange, then white
00:16blinding Ra's disk emerging over the arid hills of the right bank.
00:21It is the month of Aquet, the month of the flood, in the 29th year of the reign of the great Amenhotep III,
00:29Lord of the Two Lands, whose name means Amun is satisfied.
00:34The year, for us, is approximately 1350 BC.
00:41The sacred city of Ouasset, which the Greeks would call Thebes centuries later, awakens with a million nuances
00:49made of golden clay, green papyrus, and pink granite.
00:52The reconstruction you will see below has been created using artificial intelligence from hieroglyphic texts, papyrus records,
01:03archaeological excavations and the silent testimony of the painted tombs of the Deir el-Bahari necropolis.
01:11The air smells of wet earth; the Nile has begun its annual flood, which the Egyptians call Hapi.
01:19god of fertility who arrives punctually like the breath of the world,
01:23And the reddish waters, laden with Ethiopian silt, have begun to rise through the irrigation canals that surround the
01:31city.
01:32There's a particular smell at this time of year, a mixture of fertile mud, lotus flowers opening in the
01:39ponds,
01:40the smoke from the dawn bonfires and, floating above it all, the kifi incense that the Egyptian priests burn
01:49from before dawn.
01:50It is the smell of Egypt, it is the smell of the oldest civilization in the world that already at this moment
01:57It has more than 20 centuries of accumulated history behind it.
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02:18The city of Ouasset has between 50,000 and 80,000 inhabitants this year on its eastern bank, the bank
02:26of the living.
02:28On the western shore, the shore of the west, where the sun dies every afternoon,
02:33It encompasses the largest cemetery in the ancient world, with its villages of artisans,
02:38their funerary temples and their tombs carved into the hot limestone.
02:44Ouasset is the religious capital of the Egyptian empire,
02:47which at this time extends from the fourth cataract of the Nile in Nubia to the coasts of Syria in
02:53the north.
02:54Amenhotep III is one of the most powerful pharaohs the world has ever known.
03:00His Malgata Palace, on the west bank, has gardens,
03:04an artificial recreational lake and banquet halls where wines from the delta are served
03:10and roast ducks with honey and coriander seeds.
03:14But today we are not going to the pharaoh's palace.
03:17Today we enter the house of Amenhotep Sa-Ajub, a frequent number in this era,
03:23a middle-ranking nobleman, supervisor of the royal granaries,
03:27owner of twelve aruras of arable land north of the city.
03:31The street in front of your house is not any street you've ever seen before.
03:37It has no name.
03:38The streets of Egyptian cities do not have names.
03:41Houses are located by reference to neighbors or nearby temples.
03:46It is an alley of packed earth, about three meters wide,
03:51bordered by whitewashed adobe walls that shine white under the morning sun.
03:56There is no sidewalk. The ground is covered with raw leather sandal prints.
04:02donkey hoof marks and the damp trail of a broken water jar.
04:07Cats, sacred animals, protected by law, impossible to kill without the death penalty,
04:14They move among the walls with that imperial indifference that they will have for millennia.
04:19From a nearby courtyard comes the sound of a stone mill.
04:23Someone is already grinding barley for tomorrow's bread.
04:28It smells of clay ovens, of castor oil burning in lamps, of donkey dung.
04:34Amenhotep Sa-Ajup's house is distinguished from the humbler dwellings by its height.
04:40It has two floors and a wooden post painted red and green that indicates the owner's rank.
04:47The door itself is made of imported sycamore wood, with bronze hinges.
04:52The adobe walls are one meter thick, a natural insulator against the brutal summer heat.
04:59Egyptian and are whitewashed with a red ochre stripe at the base.
05:04There are no windows on the ground floor.
05:06The openings are small slits facing north to capture the Mediterranean breeze.
05:12that descends through the Nile Valley.
05:15It is perfect climate architecture, developed over two thousand years of trial and error.
05:21Let's cross the threshold.
05:23The first space we encounter is the reception hall, which Egyptian texts sometimes
05:28They call it the Hall of Pillars when it belongs to an important house.
05:33Two wooden columns painted red and green support the palm and mud roof.
05:39The floor is packed earth covered with woven papyrus mats, some decorated.
05:45with geometric patterns of blue and white triangles.
05:49In the center there is a terracotta brazier where something is burning, acacia wood, a
05:55a mixture of spices, whose fragrant smoke has the practical function of repelling mosquitoes
06:01that come from the river.
06:03The walls are painted, not with the solemn hieroglyphs of the temples, but with domestic scenes.
06:09bright colors, ochre, Egyptian blue, that unique copper and calcium pigment that the Egyptians
06:16They invented it and it lasted three thousand years on its walls, malachite green and chalice white.
06:22A man hunts birds in the papyrus, a woman offers lotuses to a seated figure, a group
06:29Musicians play the harp and the lute in front of a fish pond.
06:33The room smells of wood, terrivento resin incense, and the linseed oil that soaked
06:40the paints to fix them.
06:42But how does the day begin in this house?
06:45Sunrise in Egypt is a religious obligation.
06:48Before the sun disk completes its ascent, the head of the family and his wife are already...
06:54foot.
06:55There's no need to imagine a slow awakening.
06:57In a culture where the sun is the supreme god, Ra, who dies every night and is reborn every morning,
07:05In a cosmic battle against the serpent Apophis, his emergence is a sacred event
07:10that requires ritual attention.
07:13Amenhotep Sa'ahub washes himself in a red ceramic basin with water brought from the
07:18river by the servants before dawn.
07:21Soap as we know it doesn't exist, but there is natron, natural sodium carbonate,
07:27which is collected from the lakes of the western desert, dissolved in water with which the body is rubbed.
07:34There is also toothpaste, a mixture of salt, mint, ground iris, and pepper that is applied
07:40with a finger or with a small wooden stick frayed at the end.
07:45The Egyptians of the New Kingdom had more sophisticated oral hygiene than most
07:50of the Europeans of the 18th century of our era.
07:53Dental doctors, called Iri and B, are a recognized specialty.
07:59The nobleman's wife, whose name could be Nebeta or Tía, common female names
08:05of the time, she takes care of her headdress with the help of two maids.
08:10Hair was complex in 18th Dynasty Egypt.
08:14Upper-class women wear wigs made of human hair, interwoven with plant fibers,
08:21fixed with animal fat and perfumed ointments of myrrh and ben oil extracted from the seeds
08:27from the moringa tree that grows in Nubia.
08:30Without the wig, the natural hair is shaved or very short, hygiene against parasites in
08:36a subtropical climate.
08:37Regarding the eyes, cabbage is not just vanity, but medical protection.
08:44The lead sulfide in black cabbage has proven antibacterial properties, and in one country
08:50Riverside plagued by flies and conjunctivitis, lining your eyes with it from birth reduces
08:56eye infections.
08:58Children of both sexes have cabbage from birth.
09:01The family's clothing clearly distinguishes their status.
09:06The nobleman wears a shendit, a white pleated linen kilt that falls to the knee, plus
09:12a sheer fine linen tunic for formal occasions.
09:16Under the Egyptian sun, white linen is the perfect fabric; it reflects the heat and lets the light through.
09:23The breeze, and when it gets wet with sweat, it cools down.
09:26The linen fibers of the New Kingdom are so fine that later Greek texts will speak
09:32of Egyptian linen as if it were woven with light.
09:35The artisans and peasants wear the same kilt, but made of thicker fabric and without
09:41whiten.
09:42Domestic slaves, many of Nubian or Syrian origin, brought by military campaigns
09:48of Thutmose III a generation earlier, they sometimes work with their torsos uncovered according to the calendar
09:54liturgical vestments, but for everyday tasks they wear a straight dress of ecru linen
10:00held with suspenders.
10:02The jewelry includes UCEC necklaces of white fallance, gold pectorals, and carnelian bracelets.
10:08And lapis lazuli are rank indicators that men and women alike exhibit without restriction
10:14of gender.
10:15The first obligation of the morning, before breakfast, is domestic prayer.
10:21In a niche in the reception room there is a small altar with figurines of the
10:26guardian gods of the home.
10:28Ves, the dwarf god with a lion's head and sticking out tongue, protector of childbirth and children,
10:35Tawéret, the pregnant hippopotamus goddess who watches over mothers, and a small stele
10:41painted with the image of the family ancestors whose spirits, the Ak-Ijer-En-Ra, the spirits
10:49The illuminated ones continue to inhabit the house and need to be fed with small offerings, a
10:55a piece of bread, some lotus flowers, a few drops of beer.
10:59It is not superstition, but a pragmatic relationship with the invisible world.
11:04The dead help the living if they are cared for.
11:07Breakfast, there isn't a specific word for it in ancient Egyptian, it simply means food.
11:13in the morning. It is taken in the interior courtyard, the coolest space in the house at this time.
11:19The courtyard of the house in Amenote Psa-Japú has a small pond with colorful fish and
11:25A sycamore tree provides shade. Next to the north wall is a conical adobe granary that stores
11:31Emer, an ancient variety of wheat, and barley. The kitchen is upstairs.
11:37or in a separate space for fire safety reasons. A mud hearth with an acacia wood fire,
11:43a conical bread oven, ceramic vessels of different sizes hanging on the walls or
11:49supported by clay stands. What does this family eat? Breakfast is bread, and here you have to
11:56Stop, because Egyptian bread from the New Kingdom is an institution. More than 40 are baked.
12:02different varieties, with barley, with emer, with honey, with sesame seeds, in the form of
12:09Cones, discs, braids, animal figures for religious offerings. This morning's bread
12:16It's a flatbread made with emer, with a drizzle of castor oil and a pinch of salt. Along with
12:22To the bread, a jug of eket beer. Not the hoppy beer we imagine, but a thick drink,
12:29Nutritious, barely fermented, pale yellow in color, tasting more like thin porridge than
12:35Barley with hops. Beer is the safe water of Egypt. The fermentation process
12:41It destroys pathogens in the Nile water. Everyone drinks it, even children, in different ways.
12:47concentrations. There are also dried dates from the neighboring palm grove and crushed black figs.
12:53in cakes. If there is any luxury in this nobleman's breakfast, it is a bowl of wild honey brought
12:59by the beekeepers of Sinai, which is poured over the bread like a golden blessing.
13:05After breakfast, work begins. Amenhotep Zahapu is the supervisor of the granaries.
13:12real, meaning it controls the flow of grain that fills the temple's enormous silos
13:17of Amun and the palace storehouses. His job involves traveling by boat along the canal to
13:23the villages within their jurisdiction, receive the scribes who bring the records of the
13:28harvest and make decisions about tribute quotas. He carries his scribe's kit with him,
13:34a wooden palette with two inkwells, soot black for ordinary text and red
13:40He uses ochre for important numbers. He can read and write hieroglyphs fluently.
13:46monumental, like hieratic, everyday cursive writing. Literacy in
13:52New Kingdom Egypt was selective. Perhaps only 1% of the population could write.
13:58But that 1% manages the most efficiently organized empire of the ancient world.
14:04This morning, Nebetá's wife receives the linen supplier who brings new fabrics for the season.
14:11Discuss the price with him using a language of gestures and technical terms that anyone would love.
14:16He knows the Delta house, and seals the deal with an impression of his stamp in damp clay.
14:22Then she supervises the domestic weavers, two Syrian women from the family workshops,
14:28who work on the horizontal looms in the courtyard, producing linen bands for bandages
14:33funerary goods, including the grave goods already being prepared for the nobleman. In Egypt, preparing the tomb and the
14:38Funeral kitting is a lifelong adult activity, not a grim omen.
14:43but rather prudent planning of the most important journey.
14:48What does this family eat? The kitchen at midday produces the main dish of the day.
14:54the lunch that is eaten in the coolness of the interior when the sun of Ra beats down strongly
14:59Vertical. Today the cooks are preparing a red lentil stew with onion and garlic. The garlic clove
15:05Egyptian is more aromatic than any other in the Mediterranean, flavored with cumin and fenugreek.
15:12The stew is poured over a thick barley cake that acts as both a plate and a spoon.
15:18and it is eaten with the fingers of the right hand, always the right hand, according to custom.
15:23For the main family there is also a roasted bird, probably a papyrus duck,
15:28hunted in the marshes, coated with a paste of honey, coriander and spring onions,
15:33baked in the clay oven until the skin is crispy and fragrant.
15:38The luxury on this nobleman's table is spices, cinnamon brought from the land of Punt,
15:44the coast of present-day Somalia, with which the Egyptians have traded for centuries,
15:49and saffron brought from Crete by Minoan merchants. Both are measured in quantities
15:54They are tiny, like liquid gold, and their aroma transforms an ordinary stew into a celebratory dish.
16:00But how do you preserve food in a country where the heat can exceed 40 degrees?
16:06The Egyptians are masters of preservation. Natron salt dries and preserves meat and food.
16:12Fish. Conical granaries keep the grain dry with calculated ventilation. Honey,
16:18Naturally antibacterial, it seals wine barrels and preserves fruit for months. Amphorae
16:25of wine, red wine from the Delta, dark red wine from the vineyards of the region of
16:30Mareotis, near the future Alexandria, are buried up to their necks in the fresh sand
16:35from the subsoil, where the constant temperature of the subsoil keeps them at a temperature
16:40Pleasant even in August. The afternoon brings with it the visit the nobleman has been waiting for for weeks.
16:47The architect of Tombs, a master craftsman from the other side of the river, has come to show the
16:53sketches on papyrus of the decoration of the main chamber of the tomb that is
16:57Excavating in the rock of the western necropolis. In New Kingdom Egypt, the tomb of a nobleman
17:03The mid-range one has two distinct parts: the funerary chapel with its painted scenes
17:09from the everyday world to nourish the spirit with the energy of images and the burial pit
17:14Hidden where the mummified body will rest. The scenes the artist proposes for the walls
17:20They are the inventory of a perfect life. The nobleman hunting in the papyrus, the wife playing
17:26the car, the servants carrying offerings of bread and beer, the peasants harvesting
17:31Wheat, artisans working with linen. Everything painted on the tomb becomes real.
17:37in the afterlife. Painting is conjuring. The walls of the tomb are the instruction manual.
17:43of personal paradise. How do they bathe? The afternoon, before the main dinner, make a reservation
17:50a hygiene ritual that the Egyptians practiced with a frequency that would astonish their contemporaries
17:55of the Mediterranean. At the far end of the courtyard is an ablution room, a stone slab
18:01smooth with a channel that drains into the garden, where a servant pours yerba mate of fresh water
18:06on the man's body, while he rubs himself with a mixture of natron and oil
18:11Come on. It's not a soaking tub. Fresh water is too precious to waste.
18:17Thus, it's not a functional and effective effusion bath. The hair, or wig, is perfumed.
18:23with ointments of myrrh and spikenard. The soles of the feet are dyed with henna in women
18:29During the festivities, the eyes are lined with fresh cabbage. The result is a family
18:34that smells of desert flowers and cedar oil, perfectly presented for dinner.
18:40Dinner is the social moment of the day. Tonight there are guests, a temple official.
18:47of Amun and his wife, plus a priest-physician, the Sunu, who attends to the family and brings
18:53News from the capital, from Malgata Palace, about the pharaoh's latest decisions. The table
18:59It is covered with white linen tablecloths. The clay lamps are filled with castor oil.
19:04and with meccas of linen fibers they create a circle of warm, flickering light that makes it shine
19:09Fallen necklaces and gilding of the painted surfaces of the room. The diners sit
19:15in chairs with turned legs and braided leather seats or on wooden stools
19:20And they eat from individual ceramic plates. The custom of everyone eating from the same plate
19:25It doesn't exist in this social class. Dinner unfolds its dishes in sequence. First
19:31Vegetables and legumes, pickled chard, radishes, spring onions, cold lentils
19:37with oil, then the main meat. Today it's beef rib, a luxury reserved for
19:43The celebrations. Roasted over embers on a wrought iron grill, the iron is still
19:49a semi-precious metal in this Late Bronze Age period, considered the metal of heaven
19:54because it comes from meteorites, and served with a sauce of dates, beets and spices.
20:00Freshly baked white wheat bread completes the dish. The wines served are
20:06Three, a dark red wine from the Delta in a jug with the label in black hieroglyphics indicating
20:12the vintage year and the name of the vineyard, a lighter white wine from the oases of
20:17western desert and, at the end of the night, a sweet fermented pomegranate drink that
20:22It tastes like honey and summer. There are no forks; the right hand is the only utensil, although
20:28Flint and bronze knives are used for cutting meat. A servant circulates with a
20:34a pitcher and a bowl for diners to wash their fingers between courses.
20:38The children of the family, the nobleman has three living children out of the five who were born, one
20:44a proportion that reflects the infant mortality rate of the time, even among the wealthy classes,
20:48They dine separately with their grandmother, but appear briefly to greet the guests.
20:54The eldest, a twelve-year-old boy named Amenhotep after his father, is already in the scribes' school
21:00from the temple, where he learns hieroglyphics by copying texts of traditional wisdom with his palette
21:05and his reed pen.
21:06The eldest daughter, nine years old, is learning music. She plays the long-necked lute with great skill.
21:12which has impressed the temple musician. The youngest, a four-year-old girl,
21:18She plays with her articulated doll made of ivory and bone with black linen fiber hair.
21:24Middle-class Egyptian children have a surprising variety of toys. Balls
21:29leather toys, straw-filled toys, painted wooden tops, baked clay marbles, animals
21:36articulated with jaws that open and close with a string. Board games,
21:41The Cenet, the game of the snake mejen, entertains both adults and children. And
21:47The cenet also has a cosmological dimension. Each throw of the throwing sticks is
21:52A journey through the underworld. The household pets deserve their own story. In the yard
21:59There are two cats, one completely orange, the other gray tabby, that sleep in the baskets of
22:04Papyrus, along with the children, hunts the mice that try to infiltrate the barns.
22:10Cats are sacred, incarnations of the goddess Bastet, and are fed pieces of fish.
22:16and sour milk. There's also a hunting dog, a slender greyhound with erect ears and fur
22:22Ochre, the race that appears painted in thousands of Egyptian tombs, that sleeps by the door
22:27and whose presence keeps thieves away. In the stable next to the street there are two pigs,
22:33the essential mode of transport in daily Egyptian life, and in a wooden cage in the courtyard,
22:39a green jumpsuit from the Land of Punt, bought at the dock market as
22:44A pet for the children. After dinner, while the adults talk and drink.
22:50the wine of Granada, a singer from the workshops of the Temple of Amun, the priestly official
22:55has brought as a gift of hospitality, plays the harp standing up and sings loving hymns, those
23:01poems from the New Kingdom that the Egyptians wrote on papyrus and which are, surprisingly
23:06Those who read them for the first time are completely modern in their sensibility.
23:11"You are beautiful when I see you, and my heart leaps inside me," says one of these songs.
23:17preserved in the Chester Beatty papyrus. Egyptian music of the New Kingdom has scales
23:23pentatonic scales, percussion instruments, bronze citterns, ivory clappers, and flutes
23:29transverse reeds, whose sound, if we could hear it today, would remind us of music
23:35traditional North African. The evening doesn't last too long. In a culture without
23:40Powerful artificial light; the night imposes its own limits. Before sleeping, the ritual.
23:47from the domestic afterlife. Amenhotep Zahapu visits the niche of the ancestors, places the
23:53last offerings of the day, a piece of bread, a drop of beer, a withered flower of the
23:58garden and pronounces the formulas that guarantee the protection of the dead over the living.
24:04Then he writes a few lines on a fragment of ostraca, a piece of white limestone that serves
24:10as a provisional document, a reminder to the scribe the following day regarding the inventory
24:15From the barn. The oil lamp casts its giant shadow on the painted wall.
24:20In the corner of the master bedroom there is a wooden bed with carved legs
24:25shaped like bull's legs, with a linen mattress filled with wool and a headrest
24:30Made of polished wood, the wers, in the shape of a crescent moon, raises the head so that the wigs
24:36or the hairstyle doesn't get ruined overnight, and which, we suspect, causes stiff necks
24:41most archaeologically documented in history. Fine linen mosquito nets protect
24:47The bed of the nobleman of the Nile insects. The servants are distributed in the main hall
24:52on papyrus mats, or those of lower rank in the stables and the outer corridor. The hierarchy
24:58Sleep patterns replicate the daytime hierarchy. Each person sleeps exactly where their position corresponds to their daytime position.
25:04in the world it assigns. Night falls on Waset. The last lamps go out.
25:10At one. The greyhound barks only once at the sound of the rising river. In the canal of
25:16The fish jump under the irrigation. From the temple of Amun, invisible in the darkness, comes the
25:22The final chant of the night priests. A sonic chain that guarantees Ra's survival.
25:27the journey through the underworld and he will be reborn at dawn, as always, as he has been for a long time
25:33For over two thousand years, and for another thousand years after that. This family, with its rituals
25:39And his bread of emer and his cabbage in his eyes and his concern for the perfect tomb, he will dwell
25:44These banks of the Nile will remain for generations to come. They will not know that their world will be buried.
25:50through the desert, unearthed by European archaeologists 19 centuries after Christ and converted
25:56in the object of enduring fascination for all humanity. They only know that the sun rises.
26:01every morning because the gods allow it, that the Nile will grow every year if these things are respected
26:07the correct rituals, and that a life well lived becomes after death
26:12A painting of eternal colors on the wall of a tomb that lasts forever. Close the
26:18Look at the river, listen to the water, smell the damp earth and the scent of resinous incense. Egypt never dies.
26:25It doesn't change completely, it just changes shape. If this is a trip to New Kingdom Egypt.
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