Archaeologists found a pit full of giant dismembered hands near an ancient Egyptian king's palace, hinting that warriors may have offered the king the hands of their defeated enemies as trophies. Another cool discovery is a 52-foot-long papyrus scroll from the Book of the Dead, found in a coffin near the Step Pyramid of Djoser. In Cairo, two massive statues from around 1150 BC were unearthed, believed to be of Ramses II and his grandson, Seti II, with the latter having a perfectly symmetrical face, which is super impressive for the time. They also discovered hundreds of baboon mummies, showing how much ancient Egyptians revered these animals and imported them from far-off lands. Credit:
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00:00A gruesome discovery took place in Egypt some years ago.
00:03You wanna hear about it?
00:0516 human hands, carefully buried in 4 eerie pits.
00:09They didn't look too much like human hands at first, since they were abnormally large.
00:14But they were!
00:15Weirdly, there were only right hands, no left hands were in sight.
00:20It turned out that it points to the practice of an ancient dark ritual.
00:24Old Egyptian art and tales talked of a ceremony where warriors would present the right hand
00:29of their adversaries as proof of victory and ask for gold in return.
00:35Egyptians believed in the afterlife, so cutting off someone's hand meant you cut off their
00:39power eternally.
00:41Guaranteeing this type of defeat was interesting to the winning party.
00:45Here the fight was between Egyptians vs Hyksos, who lived in what was once known as Canaan.
00:53Egypt has always been the center of some history-changing findings, and some time ago, this papyrus
00:58was found.
01:00If we stretched it open, it would be just a tad bigger than the height of a skyscraper.
01:05The world's tiniest skyscraper, I mean, which is located in Wichita Falls, Texas.
01:12When humans didn't write on their notes app, they wrote on this thing, made from the medulla
01:17of a papyrus plant.
01:19Around 2,000 years ago, ancient Egyptians wrote something reminiscent of a book, where
01:23they describe most of their funerary traditions and their visions of the afterlife.
01:29It's considered one of the most important texts from ancient Egypt, and is still sold
01:33in bookstores to this day.
01:35This ancient manuscript was unearthed from a chamber located just south of the Pyramid
01:40of Dozier, located in Saqqara.
01:42Oh yes, Dozier is the oldest pyramid in Egypt and not the Giza pyramids like most people
01:47think.
01:48Also recently, the site of Saqqara buzzed with excited archaeologists, who probably
01:53found one of Egypt's oldest complete mummies.
01:56They believe that this beautiful and well-preserved mummy was that of a wealthy man.
02:01He was discovered in a deep shaft, covered in layers of gold leaves.
02:06There are many symbols that show he was an important and wealthy man, like the band he
02:10wore on his head, the bracelet on his chest, and the fact that he was embalmed with a tunic,
02:16which was reserved for Egypt's finest.
02:19The most exciting part of the entire discovery was finding the resting place sealed with
02:24mortar, just as the ancient Egyptians had left it 4,300 years ago.
02:30This may sound weird, but back in 2008, archaeologists discovered a missing pyramid.
02:36It went missing because it deteriorated over the span of 4,000 years.
02:41Today, you can only see its base.
02:44It was a pretty important site back in ancient times.
02:47It is said that around the area of the pyramid, the ancients hosted a special type of ceremony
02:52where high priests would carry mummified remains of sacred bulls.
02:56Here's a fun fact.
02:58Ancient Egyptians believed that Apis bulls were earthly incarnations of the city deity
03:03of Memphis and was connected to rites of fertility.
03:07It wasn't just any Apis bull, though.
03:09They needed to be all black with a single white mark between its horns and a bunch of
03:14very specific characteristics.
03:16They were selected by the local priests and honored until they passed away.
03:20After that, they were mummified and buried in underground galleries.
03:25Meanwhile, this missing pyramid sort of disappeared around the 1800s.
03:31It was a German archaeologist who first found it in the village of Saqqara.
03:35He called it the headless pyramid when he first found it.
03:38But then, years after the official discovery, the desert sand came along and covered the
03:43whole thing.
03:44There were some excavations between the 19th and 20th centuries, but they weren't too
03:49systematic.
03:50That's why scientists were so thrilled when they dug an entire pyramid's base after
03:54removing the 25-foot mound of sand that was covering it.
03:58Oh, and it turns out American archaeologists are excavating a cemetery in Egypt that could
04:04contain over a million mummified bodies.
04:07So far, archaeologists have dug around 1,700 mummies.
04:12One of the main differences from other classic Egyptian mummies is that these people weren't
04:16kings and pharaohs.
04:18They were commoners that most likely lived about 1,500 years ago, when Egypt was controlled
04:23by the Roman and Byzantine Empires.
04:26The name of the cemetery is cool, though – the Way of the Water Buffalo – just in case you
04:30want to check it out on your next trip.
04:33Other than bulls and buffaloes, ancient Egyptians also liked baboons.
04:37Are you seeing a pattern here?
04:39In the beginning of the 20th century, archaeologists discovered a site filled with mummified baboons
04:45in a place called, guess what, the Valley of Monkeys.
04:49An animal wouldn't have been mummified if it wasn't considered important.
04:53Certain animals were more important than others since they were linked to specific deities.
04:58Jackals were connected to Anubis, the ancient god of the afterlife, and cats were likened
05:03to the female deity Bastet.
05:06Baboons were a pretty big deal, since they were believed to be connected to Thoth, the
05:09deity of wisdom and advisor to Ra, one of Egypt's supreme deities.
05:15The archaeologists who studied these animals weren't too happy.
05:19They think these baboons were kept inside and were deprived of sunlight for most of
05:23their lives.
05:24They had extreme vitamin D deficiencies, and they were poorly fed.
05:28Maybe Thoth got angry with these baboon keepers.
05:31Just a guess.
05:33Since there's never a boring day for archaeologists in Egypt, they also found human mummies with
05:38golden tongues.
05:40Since Egyptians were all about the afterlife, they believed that golden tongues might help
05:45a person speak once they pass to the other side.
05:48I mean, it's a long shot, but hey, why not?
05:52Some of these mummies were placed in wooden coffins with goods, such as necklaces, pottery,
05:57and artifacts in the shape of lotus flowers and scarab beetles.
06:00And iPhones.
06:01Just kidding.
06:02A new temple was also unearthed recently in Egypt.
06:06Scientists believe it was dedicated to honor Zeus Cassios.
06:10That deity would be a cross between Zeus, the almighty Greek deity of the sky, and Mount
06:15Cassios.
06:16While digging around the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt, archaeologists spotted two pink granite
06:21columns poking out of the ground.
06:24And bingo.
06:25They believe these columns represented the temple's front gate and collapsed during
06:29an earthquake many years ago.
06:32And speaking of deities, there weren't only super-serious deities.
06:36Recently, scientists unearthed a golden ring in a city south of Cairo.
06:40No, Frodo, it's not magical.
06:42It was a normal gold ring.
06:44But it had the depiction of the deity of fun, officially named Bess.
06:49This deity is often described in sacred texts as a happy chubby dwarf.
06:54Today, many tattoos we get are sorta deprived of any sense and are made of aesthetic purposes
07:00only.
07:01In ancient Egypt, though, women would get tattoos as a token of protection for childbirth.
07:06That's what scientists think, at least.
07:09Around the Nile region, scientists found some mummies that had well-preserved tattoos, which
07:13is a rarity since the skin deteriorates so easily.
07:16Two of these women tattooed their lower backs, and the drawings were simple.
07:21They were mostly pictures, including that same chubby dwarf we just talked about, Bess.
07:25He also had a side hustle as the protector of women during childbirth.
07:31Would you believe me if I told you ancient Egyptians invented robots?
07:34No?
07:35Well, that's because that's not entirely true.
07:37Sure, they were astronomers, mathematicians, and engineers, and somehow they also squeezed
07:43an eccentric invention into that package – an automated deity some scientists called Hathor.
07:49This wooden statue had been in the Metropolitan Museum of Art for years before someone noticed
07:54its secret.
07:55With the help of an X-ray machine, specialists discovered a mechanical operating system inside
08:00it.
08:01The pulley-like axis goes from the statue's shoulder to her left leg.
08:05When the system rotates, the statue raises and lowers her hand.
08:09Hey, pick me, pick me, I got my hand up here!
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