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You find yourself in a warmth you have never known on a night beside the Nile | 3 Hour Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads

You find yourself in a warmth you have never known on a night beside the Nile | 3 Hour Sleep Story, No Mid Roll Ads

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Fall asleep inside history. Tonight you are safe and warm in a comfortable house on the west bank of the Nile, more than three thousand years ago, on a still night after the flood. A cool north breeze comes off the river, oil lamps burn low, the household shrine keeps watch, and a bed waits for you on the flat roof under the brightest stars you have ever seen. Ordinary people, resting, exactly as they did for thousands of years.

You will hear the slow water of the Nile, the breeze in the palms, and the small sounds of a house closing down for the night: sandals set by the door, a lamp trimmed low, a quiet word said at the shrine. The flood has been kind this year, the granaries are full, and nothing in the wide dark valley needs you awake.

This is a three hour sleep story. The narration ends softly around the 40 minute mark, and then the river and the warm night carry on until morning. Black screen friendly.

Chapters:
0:00 Welcome
4:18 The Riverbank at Dusk
8:38 The House of White Walls
13:42 The Lamp and the Shrine
17:31 Supper
21:59 The Garden and the Water
25:44 A Word You Still Use
28:58 Up to the Roof
32:46 The House Settles
36:35 Drifting
40:47 The river until morning

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New episodes Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 6pm Eastern. Nights carry you inside an ordinary evening from the past. Tales, every Friday, tell one true story from history, calm enough to sleep to and interesting enough to stay up for.

🕯 Kingdoms at Dusk: https://kingdomsatdusk.com
📜 All our worlds: https://gildenmyth.com
🌙 Norse myth sleep stories, The Sleeping Almanac: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSleepingAlmanac
🕊 Goddess sleep meditations, The Tender Hour: https://www.youtube.com/@TheTenderHourChannel
🎙 David's interview podcast, Conversations That Count: https://www.youtube.com/@ConversationsThatCount-CTC
🎧 Also on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3J6lZ10GvK07qCv3aQxnkR and Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/conversations-that-count-a31f16a6-3131-4c8f-982f-19d52407e8eb/id1890348796

Sources: Ian Shaw, The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt; Toby Wilkinson, The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt; Barry Kemp, Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization.

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