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I'm Professor Laurel Bestock, let's answer some questions from the internet.
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This is Egyptology Support.
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FH Huntress asks, "When did ancient Egypt begin exactly according to you?"
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Ancient Egypt's really old.
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If we talk about when the first king of Egypt actually became king, we're talking about 3,000 BC.
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And then we put ourselves on this timeline that would be an even 5,000 years.
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So this then would be when we change from BC to AD.
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We could say, you know, Cleopatra is really close to that.
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So the pyramids at Giza are about 2400 BC.
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Not only are we closer in time to Cleopatra than Cleopatra is to the beginning of ancient Egyptian pharaonic history, there's even more time between Cleopatra and the pyramids than there is between Cleopatra and us.
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Ancient Egypt was already ancient in ancient Egypt.
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Atsun Naaz asks, "Seriously, how did the Sphinx's nose break?"
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Our best evidence for how the nose of the Sphinx got broken comes from a 15th-century Arabic historian, and he explains that someone who was angry actually deliberately shot the nose off the Sphinx because he was upset that people were revering this monument from ancient Egypt.
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This person was subsequently lynched by other local people who revered the Sphinx.
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So there are also stories that Napoleon's army shot the nose off the Sphinx.
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We think that one's probably not right in part because we have drawings of the Sphinx from earlier than Napoleon's expedition and the nose is already missing.
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The Sphinx depicts the king Khafra, K-H-A-F-R-A, a king of the Fourth Dynasty, built the second largest pyramid at Giza.
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At Silent Ushi asks, "So what did ancient Egyptians talk like?"
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Like, what did it sound like, hieroglyphic saint speech?
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We know a great deal about what Egyptian sounded like in part because the last stage of the ancient Egyptian language, Coptic, was both written in Greek letters, which we can still read, and in fact, it's still the liturgical language of the Coptic Church.
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And so if you go watch The Mummy, you can hear much of what ancient Egypt sounded like.
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We are able to phonetically reconstruct what it sounded like.
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All mummy movies have somebody named Imhotep.
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Imhotep was the architect responsible for designing the first pyramid built in Egypt.
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At Wide Youth Styles asks, "What are some ancient Egyptian medicine and tools they created that are used to this day?"
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Ancient Egyptian medicine was pretty advanced.
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We know for instance that they performed surgery to relieve pressure on the brain.
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We have things for instance like pregnancy tests in ancient Egypt.
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A woman who wants to know if she's pregnant and wants to know what the sex of the baby will be should pee on both barley and wheat seeds.
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If she's pregnant, these are going to sprout and which one sprouts first is going to tell her whether she's going to have a girl or a boy.
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And modern tests on this have suggested that in fact, the human growth hormone that is so increased in pregnant women does have an effect on the germination of grain.
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At P Puffin Stuff asks, "Did ancient Egypt have bars?"
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No, ancient Egypt didn't have bars, but the Egyptians were definitely very social and alcohol was part of their social lives.
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We know that the Egyptians drank a ton of beer and quite a bit of wine as well.
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This was mostly done in homes and even in tombs.
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The underground part of the tomb might be where your burial chamber is, but the above ground part of the tomb is a Party Palace.
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There's a festival called the Beautiful Feast of the Valley, where the whole point was to go get drunk in the tombs with your ancestors.
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In order to make beer and wine, we have large scale breweries in towns from even before the first king of Egypt was present in 3000 BC.
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At Princessa de New York asks, "Watching this video in class about what did ancient Egypt look like, and I'm pretty sure it's just scene clips from Assassin's Creed Origins."
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So when we check out the Assassin's Creed Origins trailer, there's a lot in there that's accurate from the landscape itself.
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This sort of green strip around the Nile, then cliffs and desert a little bit farther away, and the monuments are very accurately reconstructed.
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You can see the pyramid with a funny shaped top that's what we call the Bent Pyramid at a site called Dashur.
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That pyramid is actually built by the father of Khufu, the guy who built the Great Pyramid.
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The reason that is bent is because this is very early in the history of constructing pyramids, it was still figuring out how to build perfect pyramids, and we think that this one cracked while it was under construction, and they changed the angle so that the weight at the top would not be as great.
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At Redim asks, "How did King Tut manage to be so popular even though he lived such a short life?"
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King Tut is super popular with us because his tomb was found intact.
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The discovery of King Tut's tomb was one of the archaeological wonders of the world.
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If you go see this stuff in Cairo, it takes up so many rooms.
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You have chariots, you have shrines after shrines after shrines, nested shrines built around the body of the king, who's buried not just in one gold coffin, but in multiple gold coffins.
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The beautiful face mask, also in gold, inlaid with precious stones, that's on top of him.
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But King Tut wasn't that popular in ancient Egypt.
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He lived at a time that later Egyptians in fact wrote out of history.
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So he was the successor of a king who is sometimes referred to as the Heretic King Akhenaten, who introduced a monotheistic religion in ancient Egypt.
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And Tutankhamun was one of the kings who returned ancient Egypt to its original polytheistic religion and opened the temples again.
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The fact that he was short-lived, not well known in later Egypt, probably contributed to the fact that his tomb was preserved, nobody thought to look for it.
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At K Bronx 2 asks, "Did you know that we can't recreate the Egyptian pyramids with modern-day technology?"
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Well, guess that means maybe we weren't the most advanced the human species has ever been.
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We absolutely have the technology to recreate the pyramids.
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The tools that the Egyptians were using to create these big stone blocks to make the pyramid were of two types.
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Rough stone balls, a very hard stone, which dropped repeatedly, wear away the stone to do the major quarrying.
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The fine chiseling on these blocks is being done with copper tools.
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These copper tools would have required an a huge workforce just to keep the copper tools sharp.
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So how do you get a straight vertical side on a piece of stone?
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Here you use gravity and a tool that engineers still use, a plumb bob, which is a weight on a string.
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And with a weighted string just hung, you just hold it in your hand, you know that that string is absolutely vertical.
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So if you're trying to get the side of a piece of stone vertical, you hold a plumb bob next to it, and you just correct.
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You keep chiseling away at that stone until it is perfectly straight.
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So it would have taken decades to build the Great Pyramid at Giza.
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The stone was mostly quarried locally.
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You need the stones themselves to be squared, and you need the ground to be level.
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How do you get the ground level?
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You carve a channel in the ground and fill it with water, and the water itself, again, gravity will level, and you can mark that water level across your entire site.
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So in the end, it's not impossible technologically to build pyramids any longer.
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It's a social choice, we choose not to build pyramids any longer, it's not that we've lost the ability.
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At Sevanford asks, "Who is the best Pharaoh?"
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Many people might say that Khufu, the builder of the Great Pyramid, was the best pharaoh, but my personal favorite pharaoh would probably be Hatshepsut.
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Hatshepsut was a woman, she reigned as a king, not as a queen.
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That's not so much we think because she was trying to pretend that she was a man, as because this was a role usually played by men.
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In her inscriptions, for instance, she is still using feminine forms of the verbs of words to refer to herself, but she's shown just like a male pharaoh.
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At Salmaan asks, "Watching this show called Ancient Aliens on Netflix, um, yeah, so I can't sleep now, why do the pyramids of Egypt match those in Mexico?"
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The pyramids in Egypt don't actually match the pyramids in Mexico, they are different in substantial ways.
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The king is buried in a small chamber underneath the pyramid in Egypt.
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The pyramids as you see them today look like giant staircases, they're a little bit rough, and that's not how they would have looked anciently.
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So the final step in making a pyramid would have been to clad it in very fine limestone and then to shave the sides to make it perfectly smooth.
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So this would have been not something you could climb anciently.
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The pyramids in Mexico are not tombs at all, these are bases for temples, and the temples are approached by going up the pyramid.
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That said, why do they look similar?
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Why is this basic form of a pyramid found in multiple so different places of the ancient world?
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And there the answer is pretty simple, and it's that there's not that much you can build of that size without modern technology and without steel.
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So to get a really tall structure out of stone, it needs to be smaller at the top than it is at at the bottom.
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So there's not all that many things you can build that would get that tall using this technology, and that's really we think why we see what look superficially similar in such different places in the ancient world.
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At Beto asks, "Why did ancient Egypt fall?"
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So the fall of ancient Egypt from a royal perspective, when do there stop being kings of Egypt, is really when Egypt gets incorporated into the Roman Empire when Cleopatra loses the throne.
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At Lambe Turing asks, "Did you know that Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt, was actually Greek?"
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Yes, I did know that.
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Cleopatra of Egypt was actually Greek.
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She was the descendant of a Greek family that had been ruling Egypt for about 300 years.
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When Alexander the Great in 332 BC conquered Egypt, Egypt then became part of empires elsewhere in the Mediterranean.
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We don't actually know all that much about Cleopatra.
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We do know that she was bilingual and spoke both Egyptian and Greek.
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Cleopatra did hook up with Julius Caesar, she also had children with Mark Antony.
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She was definitely playing to keep her kingdom.
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At Paul, a long string of letters and numbers, asks, "Egypt is overrated anyway, in my opinion, what did they invent that was so transformative on the modern world?"
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We could talk for instance about the mobile writing platform of Papyrus.
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We write on paper, which is a Chinese invention, but that writing should be done by a pen and that you should be able to send it somewhere easily, that is something the Egyptians absolutely pioneered.
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Ancient Egyptian mudbrick architecture was so amazing that the ancient Egyptian word for brick has actually made it into English, that's our word Adobe comes from the ancient Egyptian, ultimately acknowledging how excellent their architecture was.
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At Andy Doodle 56 asks, "Will someone ever decipher this ancient language? Imagine the knowledge lost."
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In fact, someone has deciphered ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and scholars can read virtually any inscription that we find.
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This is a very typical type of monument and what we see here is a dead guy and his wife and what they want is to receive offerings for the rest of their afterlife and that's what the inscription tells us.
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But we read this, H-U-P D N-E-S-S-U and N-N for the ka of Ammut, the name of this guy.
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So N Ammut Mess and for the ka of Ammut born of Ep, his father's name.
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At Roxy B1994 asks, "Does anybody know why the ancient Egyptians never painted people front on but only sideways on?"
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Let's take a look at an illustrated copy of the Book of the Dead.
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So they chose the most typical, the most perfect aspect of every part of the body.
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The person is shown in profile so that you get the nose in profile, but the eye is always shown front on.
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Shoulders are always shown front on, even though the arms and legs are twisted in ways that are impossible, you can't actually walk like an Egyptian.
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In some ways, you can think of ancient Egyptian art like cubism, it's showing the same thing from different angles, from different perspectives.
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They wanted a picture of a person to capture the essence of that person in a way that was much more eternal.
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Their art deliberately did not look like anything you could see with your own eyes, it's more of a God's eye view.
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At Haara Salisu asks, "Why do Egyptians mummify their dead? What's the point of preserving the dead?"
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And they did this because they believed that in the afterlife people needed their body.
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They continued to eat and to drink, to speak and breathe and even to engage in social relations with the people they had known in life.
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Most people in ancient Egypt weren't mummified, it was an expensive process.
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In fact, it wasn't necessary in order for bodies to be preserved, the Egyptian desert itself does a great job of preserving bodies.
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But for those people who did who could afford mummification, cloth was really expensive in the ancient world.
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The linen that was used would have included oils and resins, and we also know that they used forms of salt that were naturally occurring in the desert to dry the body out.
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We know for instance that they would remove the internal organs.
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Internal organs are mushy, if you're going to rot, it's going to be because there's so much water in your internal organs.
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So you take those out and mummify them separately.
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In some periods, they were placed in jars.
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Often times, the heart is protected by the placement of an amulet in the form of a heart that is placed over that part of the body.
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Ancient Egyptians didn't care that much about the brain and often the brain was in fact removed from the skull cavity before a was interred.
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At Miss Jenny asks, "How did the ancient Egyptians get the brain out of the nose during embalming?"
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So this big wet thing in your head that needs to come out during embalming could be extracted through the nose.
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And we have metal hooks that we think were used by jamming them up to break the nose bones, scramble the brain so that it's more or less liquid, and then with a combination of gravity and the hook on that metal, you pull it out through the nose.
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Because they thought the heart was the seat of intelligence, not the brain, removing it was a way to ensure that the head would be preserved.
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At Rafab asks, "Did ancient Egypt have cookies?"
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Ancient Egyptians had bread, they didn't have sugar, so their baked goods probably weren't sweet and delicious.
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Bread was the staple that was even used as wages as a kind of money.
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So you would be paid in bread and that was probably the majority of most people's diets.
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This is in fact a consolidated lump of the stratigraphic layers.
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This section represents probably between 30 and 50 years of living.
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You can see pot shards here, but when we get it under the microscope, we can also see things like the remains of the food.
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We have fish bones, we have tiny bits of grain, but we do know some about the legumes that they ate, things like lentils.
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We have onions and other vegetables that were eaten.
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Lettuce was considered to be an aphrodisiac in ancient Egypt.
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At She Wrote Murder asks, "Who deciphered hieroglyphics and how did they do it?"
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Hieroglyphs were deciphered by a French scholar named Jean-François Champollion.
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Champollion was one of a group of European scholars who was working on a document that had been discovered when Napoleon invaded Egypt in the late 18th century.
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The Rosetta Stone is a trilingual inscription from the Ptolemaic period, the late part of Egyptian history.
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It's basically a legal document about taxes and the temple.
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The top part of the inscription is in Egyptian hieroglyphs, and the middle is in Demotic script, the bottom one is Greek.
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We've never lost the ability to read Greek.
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Now it took more than 20 years after this was discovered for the decipherment to be finished.
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Now Champollion was aided by a guess that he had that when he saw little circles around a set of hieroglyphs in the hieroglyphic portion, that that probably was a royal name.
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And the very first thing he could read was in fact the name of Cleopatra.
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Once Champollion was able to read the Rosetta Stone, this was really cracking the code of hieroglyphs, and this led to the ability to read increasingly large numbers of inscriptions.
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At George Style asks, "Have you ever read the Egyptian Book of the Dead? If so, what was interesting about it?"
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We have read the Egyptian Book of the Dead.
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We have a piece of one copy here, this is just a chunk of it.
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This papyrus is many, many, many meters long.
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And so the part that we see illustrated here in fact is what we call the weighing of the heart.
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This guy's heart is on a scale and the gods are weighing his heart against a feather.
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If his heart is as light as a feather, then his heart is pure and it will not speak against him, and that means he can go into the afterlife.
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This very long scroll of the Book of the Dead would be rolled up and tucked between the legs of the dead guy in his tomb.
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This was something that everybody who could afford one wanted a copy of because it's spells that allow him to get into the afterlife and be successful there.
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That is like a cheat sheet for getting into the afterlife successfully.
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At Just Talking Too asks, "What were ancient Egyptians scarabs actually used for?"
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Most Egyptian scarabs were ring bezels, so they were on a piece of metal that would've been on a ring and they had an inscribed bit on the flat bottom that was used as a seal.
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Seals like this, a scarab beetle rolls a ball of dung up over a hill.
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The Egyptians associated that image with the rising sun and they gave the scarab credit for bringing the sun into being.
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So in having a scarab as your seal, you are linking yourself to the rebirth of the sun every day.
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At Ducky Aisha asks, "What's your favorite thing you've learned about women in ancient Egypt from your archaeological finds?"
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Women in ancient in Egypt had a status that was really rare in the ancient world.
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They could own things, own property, they could decide which of their children inherited their property.
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Then got off work when their women in their household had their periods, so when women had their period, they could expect that their husbands had to do the housework for them.
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At Black Jess Rabbit asks, "I wonder what the ancient Egyptians view on sex was."
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The ancient Egyptians really liked sex and they were not prude about it and they weren't shy about it.
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They actually did have a euphemism for to have sex, they would say to spend a pleasant day.
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It was just totally accepted that sex was a normal and enjoyable part of life and it wasn't something that was stigmatized in the same way it has been in many other cultures.
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One way we can really see this, the ancient Egyptian language did not have the word virgin.
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There was no idea that having sex changed your social position.
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It was just something people didn't really liked.
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At Alex Yacht asks, "Um, don't Egyptian deities all have animal heads?"
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Not all ancient Egyptian deities have animal heads but many of them do.
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We have a bunch of gods here on this piece of the Book of the Dead.
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We have the god Horus, we can see here with a falcon head, particularly associated with kingship.
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In the scene is Anubis and he is shown with the jackal head that is typical of gods who are associated with cemeteries.
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We think that's in part because cemeteries in the desert are places where jackals actually would have roamed.
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At Mazam Mara asks, "Y'all, ancient Egypt is wild to me, how did they just discover a new queen and over a hundred new mummies?"
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From aerial photography to now really high-tech satellites, we're able to see from the air and see patterns of difference on the ground that can relate to things that are not visible when you walk on the ground.
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We use X-ray fluorescence, and we point an XRF X-ray fluorescence gun at a wall with pigments on it, we can get the chemical signature of the pigments.
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If they're using lapis as a pigment, lapis is the most pure blue pigment that's available, it's also really expensive and the only ancient source for lapis is in what's modern Afghanistan.
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That's really far away.
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So questions about the interactions between Egypt and its broader world are new kinds of questions that technology opens up for us.
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We will not find another King Tut's tomb probably, but we have a ton left to uncover.
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So those are all the questions for today, thanks for watching Egyptology Support.