Sources come first.

Every film and article starts from published evidence: museum collections, university research, excavation reports, and the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities. Blogs, forums and anonymous pages can suggest a question, but they are not treated as proof. The sources used are listed beside each article and in each video description.

A claim has parts.

A sentence like “the pyramids were built by X” hides several claims: which monument, which period, who did the work, and how. Kemet takes the claim apart, judges each part separately, and keeps sites and periods apart. A similar custom in a later era does not prove it for an earlier one.

What a source shows, and what it only suggests. An inscription, an excavated object or a dated text is direct evidence. A scholar’s reading of it is interpretation. Both are useful, and we say which is which.

“Unproven” is not the same as “false”.

Missing records do not prove that something never happened, and a good story is not evidence for it. Kemet uses cautious words on purpose: supported, mixed, unsupported or unknown. In the Kemet Audited series, the score out of 100 is an editorial summary of how strongly the evidence supports a claim. It is not a measured probability.

How AI is used, and how it is labelled.

  • Voice. Some films use an AI-generated narration voice. This is stated in the video description.
  • Pictures. Scenes may be AI illustrations. They are reconstructions to help you imagine a place, not photographs of real artifacts, and they are labelled as AI-made.
  • Real photographs. When a real photograph is used, the photographer, licence and source are credited. We use openly licensed images, mainly from Wikimedia Commons.
  • Research and drafting. AI helps to find sources and to draft scripts, and every script is checked against the sources before it is recorded. A person approves each film and each article before it is published.

Corrections.

Egyptology changes as new work is published, and mistakes happen. If you spot one, tell us in a comment on YouTube or a message on Instagram. We check it against the sources, fix the film or article, and say what changed.

What these articles are not.

Kemet’s articles are careful introductions. They do not replace the specialist literature, and they are not peer-reviewed research. Use the sources at the end of each article to go further.

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Who makes Kemet.

Kemet is made by a small editorial team. A person on the team approves every film and article before it is published, and the team answers corrections itself.