00:00The Catastrophe and the Empty Throne
00:03From the Legends of the Pharaohs
00:06According to medieval Egyptian accounts,
00:10after a great catastrophe,
00:12Egypt stood vulnerable to its enemies.
00:15The Pharaoh and his mighty charioteers
00:18had drowned in the surging waves of the Red Sea,
00:22leaving the kingdom stripped of its armies.
00:25Surrounding empires,
00:27the Amalekites, the desert marauders,
00:30and foreign kings turned hungry eyes toward the Nile.
00:35But in the shadow of ruin,
00:37Egypt found a voice that refused to bow,
00:42the sovereign who refused to surrender.
00:46DeLuca ascended the throne not through conquest of brothers,
00:50but by the united call of Egypt's remaining mothers,
00:54daughters, and sages.
00:57Though medieval writers recorded her as 160 years of age,
01:02a symbolic testament to ancestral longevity and ancient wisdom,
01:06her mind was sharper than bronze.
01:09She decreed,
01:10Our men may rest beneath the sea,
01:13but our courage shall not drown.
01:16She forgave taxes,
01:19opened the royal granaries,
01:20and bound the people in oaths.
01:22It is a closed and united,
01:23our men may rest beneath the sea,
01:24you had to wait for this,
01:24The Lies.
01:24The next time,
