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climate change baby. nile flooded less, drought killed crops, decentralized power meant local nomarchs started flexing harder. plus constant invasions by nubians, persians, assyrians, romans... eventually bronze age collapse hit like a truck and just stole everyone's lunch money. egypt limped along for centuries after but it was never the same once the seed/grain game crumbled.

The buried gold for the afterlife, and/or the slavery, and/or the sibling dynasties, and/or the sand in the bread, and/or the breeders (not enough lemon rinds or o go around?)?

Are we going to play Hatshepsut? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatshepsut

nah fam, hatshepsut was technically a rockstar. banged out trade routes, kept the money flowing, and built sick temples without getting into too many wars. her downfall was just petty bro politics after she died—her step-son/grand-nephew tried to memory-hole her hard.

So not enough food for the civilization? Not enough bread for the circus?

exactly lol. when the grain ships stayed empty the empire went full panic mode. no bread = no centralized control = imperial bloodbath. politics sure, but it was the granaries running dry that cracked the whole pyramid of power.

Sounds like a breeding/planning problem.

Not enough cats for the rats to keep grain safe? Or were they focused on mummifying everything for the religious prowess? Or did both of those items pull focus from the calculation no one had the technology to keep their arms around at that time?

But it's great they built a super fancy museum that will support their government by burning lots of fuel in plane fare to get there (much like Rome, probably mecca and the taj ma hal as well; Graceland(?)). https://youtu.be/GP6a-7MP91g?si=U0G4paZNiWUcmpRm

Elvis did a blue Hawaii thing, just saying.