You've no respect for the dead. Sometimes
I'd rather like to join them. Hellloo! So today we are at the lovely abode of John and
Colleen Darnell they have so graciously allowed me to come here and shoot with
them and of course this strapping boy It's MOSTLY his house, let's be honest. it's such a pleasure to be here with you
my name is Colleen Darnell I'm an Egyptologist and my husband John and I
love collecting antique furniture and vintage fashion and we were both
Egyptologists and we love collaborating on our Instagram we also have two
Basenji dogs but this is this is Narmer named after the first king who unified
upper/lower Egypt. oh how fitting... so the reason I'm here today
aside from being able to see her beautiful face in person I thought it
would be a lot of fun to watch the mummy with an actual Egyptologist
as the title suggests the truths behind the movie and also kind of the Hollywood-izations... I guess you could call that pretty much I've always been fascinated
with ancient Egypt this movie I would say is probably a big source of that
because my dad did show it to us when we were younger and yeah we're just we're
just gonna go ahead and watch the movie so you yourself have not seen this in a
while not yes so that's perfect the perfect amount of cheese is how I like
to describe this movie So here weeeeee GO!!!!! because there's always a perfectly
screeching flock of birds around the Great Pyramids So we're looking at the Pyramids of Giza yes and
they've even rendered how part of the top of the pyramid of khafre still has
the outer casing stones but all of this architecture is much later in date then
that's all New Kingdom and no temple complex like that and those are kind of
cool that based on some cryo sphinxes so ram-headed sphinxes as opposed to
human headed sphinxes Thebes, city of the Living NO pyramids....in Thebes Yeah, some of the temple architecture that's
not bad a little fantastical not bad for invoking Thebes, in the reign of Seti the First But... Pyramids? 500 miles to the North How ELSE would you know you're in Egypt if they didn't put pyramids? Come on nowwww Birthplace of Anck-Su-Namun Any comment on Anck-Su-Namun's... uhhhhhh Weirdly enough, that is not inappropriate in terms of ancient Egyptian dress. GOOD FOR THEM beaded net dresses but there's this
famous story where King Snofru was really bored in the palace and so his
chief magician much like kind of the position of Imhotep, the magician gets
together the most beautiful palace women and dresses them and nothing but nets
hmm like fishnet that's it and the pectoral that she's wearing is a pretty
good copy of one of a princess named Sithathoryunet, it's in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art so the two Falcons and the cartouche in the center so. Although they
preferred red matte lipstick to that to uh lip gloss. A Cher-esque gold... Oh, THAT'S cool! The word for bodyguard is
magi or medjay The medjay were originally a tribe that lived in
ancient Nubia to the south east of Egypt and they were employed as policemen and
Guardians and by the time of the New Kingdom, the time of Seti The First, it was a general term for soldier or bodyguard huh those are some big Khopesh swords! So one interesting thing about Royal assassinations in Ancient Egypt, is the couple of
times where they actually talk about it it's because there's an investigation
and a trial and witnesses oh wow and I think we don't think about that
enough over and over again we're bombarded with this idea that there was
not the rule of law in Ancient Egypt yeah and I think that's one of their greatest
accomplishments as a civilization beyond pyramids and tombs and all of that like
that's really great but I think if you ask them they would say their literature
and their laws and their religion I believe their most enduring
contributions. Taking Anck-Su-Namun's corpse to Hamunaptra... City of the Dead Burial site for the sons of Pharaohs and Tell me ABOUT Hamunaptra. I
don't even know where they got that name They just made it up! It doesn't make aNY sense. I DO like the two horse chariots though, that's nice. the Black Book of the Dead from its holy
resting place. OKAY, this was something I remember from the last time I saw it. Book of the Dead. yes the
ancient Egyptians called it the book or scroll more properly of going forth by day what
he's holding what we think of as a book is actually called the Codex and that
doesn't really come into common use until the late Roman era this is one of
our most prized possessions it's a painting and this is a hermit a Coptic
monk we actually loaned it to a museum exhibit which is why we have oh they
thought so this is not stolen from a museum it was that
sure the scroll is the traditional format and what he's actually writing on
looks like more of a codex they say Book of the Dead it's a scroll there's one
cool example that actually John pulled out for me this is a codex a wax tablet
and you can see it has leaves it would have had wax here and then you could
write whatever you wanted and then erase it so they did have things that you can
point to and say okay you can open and close it like a book but they would
never write a religious text on this that was always a papyrus scroll. Her vital organs removed and placed in 5- FOUR canopic jars. There have always been and always shall be FOUR canopic jars. the middle one is the one that's not legit you had
the baboon headed the jackal-headed the human headed falcon-headed
but this bizarre lion headed canopic jar completely invented. I'm Learnin' SO MUCH. five sacred canopic jars. NOPE. Oh this totally happens all the time in Ancient Egypt right? Oh YES, very much so. Condemned to endure the Hom Dai, the worst of all anicent curses. tHe woRst of alL AncIent CurSes there are curses but they're not curses
on say archaeologists or tourists respectfully visiting ancient
Egyptian tombs there are curse formula occasionally
when you come into a tomb with an impure purpose hmm so like grave digging or
something. Exactly and then it says that they will ring the person's neck like a
bird or that a snake will be against them in the land and a crocodile in the
water so they do have some cool curses but nothing like was reported in the
1920s with the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun like "death shall come on swift wings"
I think that was the phraseology they're supposedly flesh-eating. mm-hmm
Supposedly? oh wait they're not actually? so this is just a minor inconvenience
for Imhotep? He's like EWW Exactly, the scarabs would just crawl around like "why are we trapped in here??" they're also using agriculture hoes as shovels. Did they have shovels that they just decided these would look
more old-timey They could have all kinds of
keys and things they very obviously didn't have but no shovels. That's where they draw the line Now... how did the French Foreign Legion get to Egypt? *much thinking* Camels... "Because I can read and write ancient Egyptian. Decipher
hieroglyphics and hieratic Hieroglyphs, not hieroglyphics. Hieroglyphic is an adjective
unless you're talking about something that's like hieroglyphs but not
hieroglyphs. Hieratic they're using properly which is the cursive version
you wanted to sit down and write somebody a letter you would write in hieratic on a papyrus or even in ostracon on a little flake of limestone or even a
pot churn sometimes I'd rather like to Although that's the Goddess Maat, from the tomb of Seti the first yeah
that ostrich feather that she wears on her head and you can see actually It makes that shape! Yeah! "You swear? Every damn day. No, I didn't mean that" Ah, BRENDAN. "That without orders, they marched halfway across Libya and into Egypt to find that City" This explanation helps, it helps... That's a GREAT dig kit, I WANT that! I think we need to sell vintage dig kits. I'd BUY IT! make things that are fairly similar to
that I don't know what I'd use it for but I want one. Dust knickknacks? It can be like a house-cleaning kit "Oh my god, this is a ???, a preparation room" It's a shrine associated with Anubis
so was used in mummification That was a nice little Egyptology detail not made up for the flesh-eating scarabs, BUT And then they take out your heart as well actually they don't take out the heart
that's the one thing that's left in the Egyptians when they talk about the
heart it's also the mind the same intelligence and emotion they didn't
realize the purpose of the brain they knew it was important though because
there is a surgeons manual and they knew that they had to relieve pressure on the
brain if there was swelling oh so they get that the brain is significant. Maybe that's why they put five of those jars cuz they were like yeah the heart too- that could be Sherlockin' over here. "He that shall not be named" Oh my god, that is accurate! "The one without a name" That's NOT BAD!
one of the things they do there and in the tomb robbery papyri say there's a
named Mirri Amun beloved of Amun They'll instead change it to mes-jeddi
Amun, he whom Amun hates destroying the name, or changing the name into a curse was the best way the Egyptians
imagined of denying someone immortality. This is exactly how archaeology works yeah "Pressurized salt acid" No booby traps?
They didn't do things like that it's embedded in our popular consciousness yeah because of
Indiana Jones and the Mummy the reason why the tombs in the Valley
of the Kings stayed as safe as they did as long as they did was because of the
Medjay see he's reading it backwards you could tell that Oh see he's reading left
to right but see how these birds are facing? that text reads right to left oh he will die namely anyone who will open this chest "Death Will Come on Swift Wings To Whomsoever Opens This Chest" See? See they're stealing from the
post-Tutankhamun made-up curse of the Pharoahs He's still... JUICY. "Death is only the beginning" Can we turn it upside down? Is that an N? That looks like a serpant? Is that supposed to be a death stick? That's what I was kind of
thinking. T.... Unless they're putting it at the end of an A-B nominal? OH it's ??? beginning and they've written it hieratic. it should have been pu And A-Pu-B nominal sentence pu is a copula which basically functions is in equal sign saying a
equals B so it actually means death is the beginning also standard archaeological practice.
PULL AS HARD AS YOU CAN. and done I thought they'd eat him slowly
alright we're done that's good burp where was he hiding that?
Just had it in this little skin sack or something Doesn't like cats! if you walked into an
Egyptian house and asked them what is the name of your cat you know what they
would say? "miu" "Miu" is the word for cat in ancient Egyptian Dogs, they gave people names So, if you asked what the name of their dog was... George They obviously liked cats, and cats were associated with the Goddess Bastet But they don't seem to have given them as much individual
personality which is weird cuz you always think what you think Egypt you
think they love cats They just love cats. there you go. The Egyptians liked dogs, probably even more than cats Hard to say, in terms of naming
practices "Cats are the guardians of the underworld..." They are NOT the guardians of the Underworld?? NO!!! ....no "Quicksand!!!" No quicksand in Egypt. no quicksand in Egypt! you need
moisture! ....true an I, an M & H and a t and in head is one of the
words for the netherworlds only in very few religious texts as that used. In 2018 John and I published the first complete
English translation of the Netherworld books the word that's tattooed on his forehead
there is actually referenced a couple of times Do we applaud the ending?? yeah well done
all right so overall how did they do overall I would say poorly wah-wah fun
adventure story yep so many missed opportunities there were a few vaguely
interesting allusions like the medjay mm-hmm that that was cool yeah I was
legitimate but in so many ways they've just missed mark especially when you
have so many cool things that you can pull from instead of just making up
you're using you know legitimate information from the Ancient Egyptian Netherworld books from the tomb of Seti the first there's so much cool stuff happens
yeah that could have included yeah and it would have been both
accurate and I think even more compelling mmm-hmm well this was fun
this is the amazing Colleen I will have all her information down below so you
can check her out thank you so much hanging out with me and watching movie
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my interview oh yes I what my ancestors I'm a basenji, one of an ancient breed go about your business I'm not here perfect
Imhotep... you DOG And the waffle iron is late
seventeen hundred's colonial period WAFFLE IRON. they made waffles back then??? "Segue!!!" I know you do that all the time. "there's a curse upon this chest" I want to be the person who
says curse my ass with a cowboy hat on.. aaaaand good ollllll... trapdoor!
the fact that she can immediatly read old texts is amazing!
Top 5 adventure film all time, change my mind.
Goldsmithโs last GREAT score Brendan Fraserโs OโConnell, nuff said Rachel Weisz at her absolute cutest CGI that still looks great โLOOKS TO ME LIKE YOURE ON THE WrOnG sIdE oF tHe RiVeR!โ
"Watching Star Wars with a NASA engineer"
"Watching Independence Day with a USAF fighter pilot"
"Watching Gremlins with a zoologist"
she looks exactly what i would imagine someone would look like if they told me they were an egyptologist
I lovvvvvve this movie
We need more segments like this. I learned so much and she made it really fun.
I love Rachel Maksy, sheโs a wonderful, nerdy human.
What a nose she has
Glorious
oh man i love rachel masky! if youre interested in vintage/nerdy shit you should check out the rest of her channel