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Discoveries in Egypt That Scare Scientists · Be Amazed

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Egyptology.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: From the name alone, can you guess what it is?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm not trying to trick you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As the name obviously indicates it's the scientific study of ancient Egypt.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A historic and rich culture spanning from 3100 BCE to around 332 BCE, almost 3,000 years.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was a culture so vast that the first document at Egyptologists were ancient Egyptians themselves.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So considering how long experts have been studying it, you'd expect them to know almost everything about the ancient treasures found here, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, no.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Despite researching for centuries, their art discoveries Egyptologists have made that the fight even their understandings, and worse, that scare them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: From brutal burial practices to mathematical miracles, it's time to take a look at discoveries in Egypt that have terrified Egyptologists.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If there's one thing, Ancient Egypt is frighteningly famous for its their mummies.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Mummies?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Not mummies.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No, you may want your mummies once we're done here.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now mumification is a burial process by which all moisture is removed from our body, leaving dried forms that don't easily decay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Egyptians damn near-perfected this process, and as such, it's estimated more than 70 million mummies were created during the ancient Egyptians' time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, back in 2021, a newly discovered mummy stood out from all the others.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was a 4,000-year-old mummy found inside a tomb in Oswan, once known as the Ancient City of Swinette.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Though it wasn't the mummy the archaeologists were expecting.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They were investigating the reign of Egyptian Queen had Sheppsit, but a series of bad ohmen struck the team almost, like they were being warned away from the burial site.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A violent sandstorm had practically blinded them, delaying their journey along with all the elements of the desert environment working against them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And once the team finally made the mere 650 foot journey to the site hidden in the cliffs, had ships that was nowhere to be found, but someone else was.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, this 4,000-year-old mummy wasn't a real mummy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Once the lid of the terracotta sarcophagus was removed, what they found was little more
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Despite not having been buried properly was still immaculately preserved.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But who the skeleton belonged to was an even bigger shock.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Bone experts revealed her remains were that of a woman who was around 70 years old.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: An ancient Egypt, the average life expectancy was a mere 25-35 years of age.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Women's life expectancy was usually lower due to the risks of childbirth, so making it to 70 was almost not heard of.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Who this woman is and how she lived as long as she did is still a mystery to this day.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's just fine.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think I'm nearing about a black shroud at skeleton, nobody can identify or explain it all.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Someone hold me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The great pyramid of Giza is classed as one of the seven wonders of the ancient world with very, very good reason.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At 454 feet tall, this thing has a volume of 92 million cubic feet, which is made up of limestone granite and mortar.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Within these blocks, passages and chambers have been carved out and built in, which served his tombs for the Ferro's Kufu in his queen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It is undeniably glorious having been explored, research and studied by Egyptologists relentlessly for some 4,000 years.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, in February 2023, scientists around the world were shocked when infrared scans of the great stone structure revealed several voids along with a 30-foot passage hidden of all places right above the main entrance.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Scientists used an endoscope, a sort of small camera on a stick, only 6mm wide, to move between the stones without disturbing them and get a clear idea of what the passage looked like.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, what lies beyond at the time I'm making this episode, no one knows.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It could be a burial chamber, but scientists have pointed out that its entrance shouldn't be sealed up.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If that's the case, as it is, the room is completely inaccessible.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Many of its underground passageways are also a puzzle, as no one has any concrete evidence proving what purpose they truly served.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This new corridor is also strangely the only entrance tunnel built high above ground level, which adds another spanner into the scientists' understanding of what might be hiding inside the chamber it leads to.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're now at least the mystery per servers, keeping scientists on edge.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: After all, if it took thousands of years for us to discover this secret chamber, who knows what else might be in there, waiting for us to let it out.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What secrets do you think the great pyramid is hiding?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Could it be another burial chamber?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Or perhaps something forgotten that was left a guard that King and his queen in their eternal slumber?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let me know in the comments if the platform allows and why you'd there be sure to follow my podcast if you haven't already?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All done?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What dark discovery have we got next?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now I've already told you how big at least one of the pyramids of Giza is, but just picturing all of them standing together helps you appreciate just how magnificent they really are.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, what's most amazing isn't their size or age, but their accuracy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Whether it's an extremely weird coincidence, a genius understanding of geometry or a supernatural intervention, these pyramids are all geometrically perfect.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: By that I mean beyond their bases being practically identical lengths to each other, they also adhere to two universal mathematical principles known as the Golden Ratio and Pi.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Scientists discovered that if you divided the perimeter of one of the pyramids by its height, the result only differs 0.1% from the calculation of Pi, which is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The golden ratio on the other hand is where the ratio of two quantities is the same as the ratio of their sum to the larger of the two quantities, and the ratio of the slant height of the pyramids to half their base to mention almost achieves this number exactly.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, that's a lot of mathlingos, so if I used to say, the fact that the basic math of these pyramids that here's the one of these equations is amazing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Two, that's insane.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Why?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Because these mathematical principles wouldn't exist for thousands of years when they were built.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That even more fuel to the mathematical fire we've started, the very position of the pyramids has been analyzed in theories of emerged claiming the location of the three largest lines up with the stars in the Orion constellation, specifically the three that make up the belt.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Why?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, these stars were associated with the Egyptian god Osiris, god of rebirth, and the afterlife.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So building mathematically perfect giant stone structures to both house the dead and honor a god is totally normal, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: While the idea alone is intimidating, it would mean ancient Egyptian civilization was much smarter than scientists or really prepared to admit, but that they still respected their gods.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So what did they know then, then we don't know now.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: While the star set theory has been hotly debated, there's another part of the pyramids that simply can't be debocked, and that's their size.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: With each block making up the pyramids weighing at least two tons, the largest of the monuments is made from almost 9,000 tons of granite, over 550,000 tons of mortar, and more than 6 million tons of limestone,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: put together before any kind of modern machinery was invented.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What's more, what we see today is only what remains of the pyramids.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 4,500 years ago, it's believed each one was finished in a coat of white limestone top with a cap of pure gold.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But how?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: How is building this great pyramid possible?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: While workers would travel southeast of Giza to the turret quarries over the Nile and hammer wooden wedges into the stone.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then they'd soak the stone in water.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The wedges would absorb this water expand and then doing so crack the rock into deep blocks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: These blocks were pulled by people from the quarries and ferryed across the Nile before being dragged on slits, again by people and probably some animals too, all the way to the sign of the pyramid.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's when the real work began.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A ramp and pulley system was utilized so that the heavy blocks could be hauled up the pyramid.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All 454 feet of it where they were finally smoothed down into shape.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That is a beastly amount of work which was completed in that once but at least three times over for each adjacent pyramid.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: which is why their purpose is so hotly debated.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Surely they didn't do all that to line up with some stores, right?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, after that, I think I understand why the very existence of these monuments is as baffling as it is terrifying.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No matter how hard Egyptologists try, they just can't beat the alien allegations.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Any weird artifact tomb or new discovery will instantly set the conspiracy community off claiming the ancient Egyptians weren't actually that smart, and that they only achieved these amazing feats of engineering and construction with the help of aliens.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Take a famous set of ancient Egyptian jewelry for example.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Its stone beads were actually made from meteorites, and that's not all.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: King Tut's most treasured dagger was also found to be made from meteoric iron.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: All the most logical conclusion is that ancient Egyptians recognized the worth of the metallic space rocks and treasured them for their unique properties conspiracy theories believed they were alien gifts.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Oh boy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And the crazy clams don't stop there, back in 2017 during a house renovation and southern Egypt it was reported some ancient coins were found with images of alien creatures and UFOs etched on them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This immediately sent the conspiracy theorists into a craze.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Finally, they had proof that aliens were in contact with the ancient Egyptians.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, despite making headlines in some, let's say a lesser reputable news outlets, the coins weren't verified with any official archeological study.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In fact, the entire discovery was a complete hoax.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Think I might die of not surprise.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It turns out digital artist, Crypto-Maniacal, entered a Photoshop competition back in 2011 by manipulating a portrait image of an old Greek coin.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The UFOs on the other hand just turned out to be French tokens to picked in clouds and a shield descending from the sky, which those news outlets would have realized if they'd done any research.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: at all.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that figures, but what I really want to know is what the conspiracy theories thought aliens needed with coins, like these guys have conquered the technology behind Space Travel.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Surely they had the tech for a cashless society.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: From extraterrestrial conspiracy theories back to something far more grounded and far more growth to us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Because while aliens get the headlines, the Egyptians were making much stranger discoveries much closer to home.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Crocodiles are scary enough, but this next discovery takes that fear to a whole new level.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Back in January, 2023, Archaeologists excavating an undisturbed tomb on the western bank of the River Nile uncovered something unexpected.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Late out before them were 10 mummies more than 2500 years old, but they weren't humans.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They were Crocodiles.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Some small, some more than 7 feet long, all preserved in time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and terrifyingly well-preserved at that.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As it turned out their mummification process had been very unconventional.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Using mummification involves removing the organs before filling the body with sweet smelling aromas and so on.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They were then covered in resin and wrapped in linen, but these crocodiles were buried without resin or linen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Traces of rope on the crocodile mummies had that they were tied up until they became dehydrated and, well, you get the idea.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But why would anyone do this to one crock?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Let alone ten?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, crocodiles were typically associated with the crocodile headed gods so back, and were often bred solely for sacrifice.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yikes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: These sacrifices were used to ask help from Sobeck, who they believed symbolized fertile soil for crops and protection from deadly reptiles, the irony.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Previous tombs excavated by archaeologists have revealed similar crocodile mummy hordes, many of which are now on display of museums around the world.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But what's unnerving is that none discovered before have been preserved like this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Could it be these were some of the first animal mummies ever made?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Is that why the process was so incomplete?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The exact answer still eludes researchers to this day, which somehow is more unnerving, the more you think about it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: From eerie crocodile mummies to something even more unsettling, a discovery that reveals just how brutal Egyptian power rituals really could be.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The ancient city of Averis was once home to Egyptian royalty, specifically the kings of the 15th dynasty of Egypt known as Hikesos.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Though these kings did not rule all of Egypt, writings reveal the Hikesos were feared above all others at the time.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Archaeologists have tried to uncover exactly what it was that made them so feared and back in 2012 they found out why.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: These archaeologists were excavating a hike-so's palace in Everest when they discovered a series of pits in what would have been the entrance to the throne room.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As they dug further down, they suddenly realized that they weren't moving aside rocks, but bones, hand bones.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The more they dug, the more bones were revealed until they saw that in three pits, there were some 18 human hands dating back some.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 3600 years ago.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What sick of session did Egyptian royalty have with hacked of hands?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, as with most things, it's believed it was all down to a ritual.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A soldier represents the hand of an enemy and exchange for gold.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Each pit represents a ceremony most likely a celebration of their enemies defeat.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Or considering their placement, they might have been placed in the pits to intimidate anyone walking into the throne room.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I feel intimidated just learning about them never mind seeing them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: While incredibly gruesome, what's really thrown each of topologists is the size of the hands as they're unusually large.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What the significance of that is, researchers don't know, but it's believed the hands all belong to men and possibly one woman.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Even creepier, the hands were likely kept and collected for 24 to 48 hours before being placed in the pits.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: really don't envy the archaeologists who had to uncover them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks to this discovery, these hands have successfully traumatized a whole new generation.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What's the scariest book you've ever read?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Was it a Stephen King classic like the Shining?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Or something so horrific, it's scarred you, like 50 shades of gray.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever it was, I can tell you now it was nowhere near as terrifying as the books of the dead.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Each written around 1550 to 50 BC by ancient Egyptian priest, these artifacts are some of the most incredible and terrifying ancient discoveries ever found.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The scrolls made of papyrus include funerary texts which are made up of magic spells each one written to help a person through the afterlife.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But it's not a finite text like the Bible for example.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Each scroll was filled with spells tailored to the person set to travel the afterlife, like a will but magic.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And creepy, with many scrolls even illustrated with the journey the person would take through the afterlife.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Creeping his aside what it has done is given scientists an incredibly generous understanding of their religious beliefs, afterlife rituals, and of course, their beloved gods.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A very recent discovery of a particular book was unearthed and secara back in February 2023.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This scroll is a huge 52 feet long, and that text is more than 2,000 years old.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Researchers believe that it was owned by a man and his wife since they feature quite a few times in the book.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Books of the dead continue to astound scientists whenever they're found because it shows just how obsessed the culture was with death itself.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Could you think of anything that sounds worse than disturbing an ancient slumbering god of death?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: While it might sound like a scene who'd only find enough fantasy book, this is exactly what Archaeologist did when they stumbled upon the Tomb of Osiris.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now Osiris is an ancient Egyptian deity responsible for ruling the afterlife and overseeing the judgment of all souls who enter his realm.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But being a god, you wouldn't think he had a physical presence on earth.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, back in 2015, when scientists first fully uncovered the tomb on the Bank of the Nile and Abados, they had to wonder if these gods had once been real.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Reliefs on the wall showed demons brandishing knives, a stone statue of Osiris stands watch over the funerary chamber, tall imposing his hands crossed over his chest and his crook and flail raised, a universal Egyptian symbol for a thorny over the dead, and a huge 11-foot staircase leads further down, apparently guiding anyone unfortunate enough to step put here, down to the underworld.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Night that wasn't smiling chilling enough, the tombs layout continues down vents and channels that keep going down and down almost 50 feet until anyone there feels like they've been buried too.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As haunting as this discovery was though no god lies here, it's believed that this multi-level structure is actually an ancient replica of the Osarion, a complex dedicated to Osaris built
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But that only begs the question, why would Osiris need two tombs?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Unless they're not tombs, and are in fact, entrances to the underworld itself, which are merely guarded by Osiris.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Ironically, the feeling of being down there is starting to creep up on me.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I don't want to exaggerate, but the next discovery we're about to uncover might just be the most heartbreaking thing you'll ever hear, depending on how much you love animals.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Back in 2015, archaeologists explored a mysterious catacom in North Sekara, which was found to hold over 8 million mummies.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, 8 million.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's enough mummies to fill the biggest stadium in the world, 53 times over.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The ancient Egyptians built this giant catacom some 25-hundred years ago in the 4th century BC, and the mummies themselves, well, tragically, most of them, were dogs and cats.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They were placed right next to the Temple of Anubas, a building dedicated to the Houndheaded God of Death.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's fitting, but that doesn't make me hate it any less.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Sadly, many of them would have been put in the tomb from birth, or from when they were just puppies and kittens as sacrifices to the gods.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So much like the crocodiles from before these little K-dines and kitties were used solely as an intermediary between humans and deities.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I know if I was one of the team that uncovered this catacom, I'd have been left shaking.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: From millions of sacrificed animals to a shrine so bizarre and violent that even seasoned archaeologists weren't sure what to make of it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When you think of a shrine you tend to imagine statues, offerings, maybe some crazy visual display that looks a little overzealous shall we say?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: While here's a brain teaser for you, in the port city of Baraniki, archaeologists have discovered a 1,700-year-old Falcon shrine, yeah, a Falcon shrine, as in a shrine to the birds, which contains the mummified remains of 15 Falcon's on a pedestal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Except they're all headless.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Why on earth?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Who hates Falcon's that much?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But that's not all, a stone monument was found in a separate room depicting four deities, two of which are completely unknown.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One of them, however, does have a falcon for a head leading researchers to believe it could be horse the Falcon Head at God of Kingship.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Have you got any idea what this shrine was really used for?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Share your theory with us in the comments if the platform allows.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When you're explicitly told not to do something, don't you find that you want to do it even more?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, for scientists in Alexandria that feeling became all too real when they uncovered this impossibly ominous black granite sarcophagus back in 2018.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: At some 2000 years old, it dated back to the time Alexander the Great Concret the area, and it was even rumored that granite casket held his remains.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This fueled local speculation that it was cursed and opening it would surely unleash a terrible fate upon the world.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But instead of listening to local legends archaeologists did what archaeologists do, they cracked it open and took a good look inside.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the crusader was nowhere to be found, they did discover the skeletons of two men and a woman.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One of them even had a hole in its skull from what seemed to be some form of ancient brain surgery.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But that's nothing compared to the mysterious red liquid they also found inside.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now it wasn't blood, it was liquid sewage.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: While it's not clear how sewage got in there, it must have leaked in at some point.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Or perhaps the sewage and rich had bacteria therein, is the curse itself?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Many believe that the 9-foot-long 30-ton coffin was never ever supposed to be opened as it would inevitably do us all in the long run.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: After learning about that nasty liquid, I sure as heck feel cursed.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For better or worse, it did give the internet plenty of me material though, with many obsessing over its mommage use.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There was even a petition put to the Egyptian government to allow people to drink it, so they could assume its powers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, there's no doubt that opening this thing was definitely a mistake.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In a tomb, no one can hear you scream.
• 23:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: But it turns out we can encounter a scream frozen in time, if one particular mommy discovered
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It was part of a royal casher, Darrell Baharian theme, so being royalty excavators were expecting immaculately preserved bodies, however what they found was truly terrifying.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The mummy looked like it was in complete agony, its mouth froze an open as if it had been eternally screaming into the darkness for centuries.
• 23:43
  [SPEAKER_00]: But for the excavators, this frightful discovery was nothing compared to the mummy's story.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You see, these remains are likely to have once been a prince of Egypt.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What such high status you'd think he'd have the best sarcophagus, the best burial, and the best items for the rituals to carry him into the afterlife.
• 24:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: However, this mummy had all its organs intact, was crudely wrapped in a goat scan and had no offerings left at its side.
• 24:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it turns out you don't get the privileges of a royal burial if you plan to use your father.
• 24:15
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's believed this is Prince Penteuer, an heir who got involved in a high stakes conspiracy to de-throne his father, Ramses III, back in 1155 BCE, and take the kingship for himself.
• 24:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: After everything came to light instead of facing a public punishment, he voluntarily decided to visit the afterlife if you get my meaning.
• 24:41
  [SPEAKER_00]: When you commit high trees in an 1155 BCE, it means that you're not going to get the majestic Egyptian burial you wanted.
• 24:49
  [SPEAKER_00]: And as a result, he'd spend left screaming his last moments for thousands of years.
• 24:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: Scientists are still unsure of the exact cause of death, oh, why he was part of a plot to remove the ferro?
• 25:02
  [SPEAKER_00]: What's worse is that we don't know if he's screaming in pain or begging for mercy.
• 25:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: Which of these discoveries frightened you the most, and which one would you actually dare to see in person?
• 25:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: See you next time, and thanks for listening.
• 25:18
  [UNKNOWN]: Thank you for watching.