Watching "The Mummy" With An Actual Egyptologist

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the fact that she can immediatly read old texts is amazing!

๐Ÿ‘๏ธŽ︎ 15 ๐Ÿ‘ค๏ธŽ︎ u/Mascatuercas ๐Ÿ“…๏ธŽ︎ Mar 20 2020 ๐Ÿ—ซ︎ replies

Top 5 adventure film all time, change my mind.

Goldsmithโ€™s last GREAT score Brendan Fraserโ€™s Oโ€™Connell, nuff said Rachel Weisz at her absolute cutest CGI that still looks great โ€œLOOKS TO ME LIKE YOURE ON THE WrOnG sIdE oF tHe RiVeR!โ€

๐Ÿ‘๏ธŽ︎ 13 ๐Ÿ‘ค๏ธŽ︎ u/snookyface90210 ๐Ÿ“…๏ธŽ︎ Mar 20 2020 ๐Ÿ—ซ︎ replies

"Watching Star Wars with a NASA engineer"

"Watching Independence Day with a USAF fighter pilot"

"Watching Gremlins with a zoologist"

๐Ÿ‘๏ธŽ︎ 28 ๐Ÿ‘ค๏ธŽ︎ u/Solvang84 ๐Ÿ“…๏ธŽ︎ Mar 20 2020 ๐Ÿ—ซ︎ replies

she looks exactly what i would imagine someone would look like if they told me they were an egyptologist

๐Ÿ‘๏ธŽ︎ 6 ๐Ÿ‘ค๏ธŽ︎ u/EntropicReaver ๐Ÿ“…๏ธŽ︎ Mar 20 2020 ๐Ÿ—ซ︎ replies

I lovvvvvve this movie

๐Ÿ‘๏ธŽ︎ 8 ๐Ÿ‘ค๏ธŽ︎ u/itsikobert ๐Ÿ“…๏ธŽ︎ Mar 20 2020 ๐Ÿ—ซ︎ replies

We need more segments like this. I learned so much and she made it really fun.

๐Ÿ‘๏ธŽ︎ 8 ๐Ÿ‘ค๏ธŽ︎ u/Whileatwork12 ๐Ÿ“…๏ธŽ︎ Mar 20 2020 ๐Ÿ—ซ︎ replies

I love Rachel Maksy, sheโ€™s a wonderful, nerdy human.

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What a nose she has

Glorious

๐Ÿ‘๏ธŽ︎ 2 ๐Ÿ‘ค๏ธŽ︎ u/Dracula101 ๐Ÿ“…๏ธŽ︎ Mar 20 2020 ๐Ÿ—ซ︎ replies

oh man i love rachel masky! if youre interested in vintage/nerdy shit you should check out the rest of her channel

๐Ÿ‘๏ธŽ︎ 2 ๐Ÿ‘ค๏ธŽ︎ u/buonatalie ๐Ÿ“…๏ธŽ︎ Mar 20 2020 ๐Ÿ—ซ︎ replies
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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 that's about it that's a wrap that's a wrap I love you guys with you're new or old to this channel if you're new here and you feel like sticking around feel free to subscribe I upload every Friday and we have fun here and I'll see you in my next video bye I'm not cover the lens it's too far away videos about me and here I'm ready for 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!
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Length: 18min 30sec (1110 seconds)
Published: Fri Feb 21 2020
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