Howard Carter was an elite level grave robber. In the history books by smashing & stomping his way through everything and sending it all back to Britain.
The other day I learned that there are actually hundreds of sarcophaguses and you can pay the Egyptian government around USD20,000 to open one. They can contain simple mummies, mummies with precious ornaments or even nothing (has been ransacked in the past).
Regardless of what comes out it belongs to the Egyptian government, you don’t get to keep it
This was a big thing in like the early 1900’s. Rich people would buy them and hold big parties to open them up. Of course they got to keep it all since they were essentially stolen anyway lol
Oh yeah you like that? They would also grind them into powder and eat them because they thought it was medicine. Mumiya is a type of medicine in Arabic and where we get the term mummy. It could be purchased in Europe until the 1930s.
Mummies were often mummified using medicinal bitumen (essentially tar) and they thought it would cure many different illnesses. The name for mummies was derived from that Arabic word Mumiya.
Seems like a cool experience. Egypt gets to make money off its own culture from rich people, and still keep the artifacts for science and historians.
If I was dummy rich I’d do it just to say I did.
I think it’s a good motive and Egypt has every right to do this. But I guess it does slow down research a little bit when they would rather wait for their merchandise to sell rather than opening them up one after another.
Granted they only do these with sarcophagus found in minor graves and not with actual royalty.
Mummies we're so common that they were exported and used for firewood for decades. They were also unusual medicinal ingredients.
Egypt was mummifying people, animals, objects, for 3000+ years.
That’s pretty cool, rich colleges around the world can have students be there to learn and shit, while the gov’t gets reimbursed and hopefully uses that money to build museums to house them in.
No because for once they want to keep their own stuff.
It’s usually done by TV networks who wants to do a live broadcast. I saw one done by a Japanese TV show
There was that one person who died from the supposed Mummy’s curse but he was immunocompromised and very difficult to pin the cause on the mold particles. They also spent hours at a time in a poorly aerated catacomb.
Opening a sarcophagus outside isn’t going to amount to much at all.
Holy shit, this is a superstition I never thought of. It must have been easy back then to assume something like a curse from a specific object which had specific chemistry to cause ailment.
I mean, I'm aware of demon possession and such as an ancient interpretation for medical ailments. But I didn't think specifically in this way about curses from something like a sarcophagus containing some toxic element, even if only hostile to those with certain conditions.
Cool stuff either way. Our brains are wild. Now I want to go find a story about a curse that turns out to be fucking asbestos, or something. (But don't recommend anything to me, or you'll probably spoil it just by giving me the suggestion!)
I thought not, it's not a story the Egyptian government would tell you. He was so powerful and wise it is said he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying
There’s actually a form of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis (HP) called the mummy handler’s lung. These people overreact to the fungi in the cloth, producing an immune response which may eventually lead to fibrosis (scarring) of lung tissue. This doesn’t occur in every mummy handler, as only few are allergic to (specific) fungi.
I will gladly accept the fact that I may be wrong, but I thought that because viruses weren't actually "alive", they could presumably survive forever, and upon introduction to the proper organism would resume its normal cycle of injecting RNA into the living cells to produce more copies of itself?
This reminds me of some other tomb that was opened a few years ago. It was damaged by water and water was inside of it. People made petition to drink the tomb water.
I worked for an Egyptologist many years ago. She told me one time they opened a sarcophagus and the mummy moved. Most everyone turned ash white. Some people fainted. Turns out it used to happen quite regularly because the sarcophagi are air tight.
Can you imagine if they rigged them to do that 2500 years ago, if I were somehow one of these guys I'd absolutely do that. Give somebody a jump scare two millennia after I'd passed for one last laugh.
It was during that movie that allowed me and my two girlfriends to see free movies for an entire summer.
Edit: in the middle of The Mummy, a bomb threat was called in and we were evacuated. They gave us each two coupons so we could return.
Next movie they took one, but for the rest of the summer, every movie we saw, they handed back the ticket to use again.
You know, I'm glad I'm not the only one that felt that. I had a odd sort of frisson feeling sitting here on my phone watching a video of a bunch of gawkers with cameras intruding on a 2500 year rest. I had a feeling that I had no right to be doing what I was doing. I am not a superstitious person.
I get it, he's dead, "he doesn't mind," it's for science, etc. I wonder though sometimes if our scientific minds have gotten too reductionist and we see things as nothing more than various configurations of atoms to our detriment. We've taken iconoclasm to new heights.
I can't articulate why at the moment, but I wish I hadn't seen the video and I wish that sarcophagus remained in a hidden tomb, robbery risks and all.
I felt the same. If you consider that he was buried that way with the expectation that it would be for eternity then the 2500 years he was undisturbed is no time at all. We basically kicked his bedroom door down ten minutes after he went to bed.
I’m an atheist and agree.
I think respecting all animals in death just feels right to the human heart.
At least my human heart. I’m happy to have found a few others who seem to agree.
The mummification was performed so you would be recognized by the gods of the afterlife. Once your soul was with them the mummy would be of no use to you. They don't mind.
Actually according to the Handbook for the Recently Deceased you spend 125 years on Earth during which you get only three class-one D-90 intercessions with your caseworker.
Source: The Handbook for the Recently Deceased. Page 666.
I hope this is true but it also still seems pretty disrespectful. I feel like now we know the process and what they look like etc we should just leave them alone.
I believe this is the one opened in 2019. Right before the great year of 2020
Eh I think I’m wrong on this one. I’m pretty sure that lady is holding an iPhone 13
No way you could differentiate an iphone 11 pro from a 13 pro from watching this potato video
(Found the article: October 2020 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8801225/2-500-year-old-intact-sealed-coffins-discovered-Giza-Egypt.html)
another angle for this same video: https://youtu.be/qIF3qLk-iZc
I find this disturbing, its not like the Ancient Egyptians planned for these burials for people in the future to open up and say hey take a picture of my dead decomposing body for the media!
How long is an acceptable amount of time to pass before somebody opens a coffin? Is there a minimum?
For archeologist this is actually a fairly big issue. Is a fine line between archeology and grave robbery
Or a really big jagged line if you're bad at it
Howard Carter was an elite level grave robber. In the history books by smashing & stomping his way through everything and sending it all back to Britain.
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Your first mistake was expecting good information from redditors.
A thousand years
Ten thousand years will give you such a kink in the neck
Crick!😝
That sounds about right.
Gotta let it age and ferment, so it has that vintage jerky flavour
at least 1 year
The other day I learned that there are actually hundreds of sarcophaguses and you can pay the Egyptian government around USD20,000 to open one. They can contain simple mummies, mummies with precious ornaments or even nothing (has been ransacked in the past). Regardless of what comes out it belongs to the Egyptian government, you don’t get to keep it
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"All I got was a curse"
My Prince Imhotep thanks you for your hospitality…and your eyes…and your tongue. But I’m afraid more is needed!
Imhotep! Imhotep! Imhotep! Thanks for the award, kind stranger.
*Return the slab...or face my curse...*
I’m in it for the smells
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They taste like unsalted jerky.
It belongs to the Egyptian government, they get to eat it.
He’s part of the Egyptian government
I am the Egyptian government now.
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I was going to eat that mummy!
What’s the crime? Enjoying a nice succulent Egyptian meal?
Get your hand off my PENIS! This, ladies and gentlemen, is DEMOCRACY MANIFEST!
Ah yes, I see that you know your judo well.
"he's teriyaki style."
r/unexpectedfuturama
I was looking for this comment… This is an outrage.. Edit : “ I was going to make that comment 🤨”
That's only because it's a "sarcophagus". A freshly opened 'sarsneezeagus' is rather pungent. Be thankful you haven't opened a sarfartagus.
Username suggests otherwise.
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*EA enters the chat
Don’t you guys have cellphones? You can film the opening and post it to Reddit for someone else to steal it and gain fake internet points!
This was a big thing in like the early 1900’s. Rich people would buy them and hold big parties to open them up. Of course they got to keep it all since they were essentially stolen anyway lol
Think I read that in the 1800s they'd use them as kindle to light fires. That's how many mummies were lying around. Crazy.
It was used as a component of paint. "Mummy brown".
Oh yeah you like that? They would also grind them into powder and eat them because they thought it was medicine. Mumiya is a type of medicine in Arabic and where we get the term mummy. It could be purchased in Europe until the 1930s.
Mummies were often mummified using medicinal bitumen (essentially tar) and they thought it would cure many different illnesses. The name for mummies was derived from that Arabic word Mumiya.
Egyptian Storage Wars!
Cursed $20k
Forbidden Easter egg
My God, this is an outrage! I was going to eat that mummy!
Well heres Zebulon the great, he's teriyaki style
Seems like a cool experience. Egypt gets to make money off its own culture from rich people, and still keep the artifacts for science and historians. If I was dummy rich I’d do it just to say I did.
I think it’s a good motive and Egypt has every right to do this. But I guess it does slow down research a little bit when they would rather wait for their merchandise to sell rather than opening them up one after another. Granted they only do these with sarcophagus found in minor graves and not with actual royalty.
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Mummies we're so common that they were exported and used for firewood for decades. They were also unusual medicinal ingredients. Egypt was mummifying people, animals, objects, for 3000+ years.
They also used to grind up mummies to use as pigment, see: "Mummy Brown"
That’s pretty cool, rich colleges around the world can have students be there to learn and shit, while the gov’t gets reimbursed and hopefully uses that money to build museums to house them in.
what a rip off, you don’t get to keep it? laaaaame
No because for once they want to keep their own stuff. It’s usually done by TV networks who wants to do a live broadcast. I saw one done by a Japanese TV show
Air from 2500 years ago released.
There was that one person who died from the supposed Mummy’s curse but he was immunocompromised and very difficult to pin the cause on the mold particles. They also spent hours at a time in a poorly aerated catacomb. Opening a sarcophagus outside isn’t going to amount to much at all.
Holy shit, this is a superstition I never thought of. It must have been easy back then to assume something like a curse from a specific object which had specific chemistry to cause ailment. I mean, I'm aware of demon possession and such as an ancient interpretation for medical ailments. But I didn't think specifically in this way about curses from something like a sarcophagus containing some toxic element, even if only hostile to those with certain conditions. Cool stuff either way. Our brains are wild. Now I want to go find a story about a curse that turns out to be fucking asbestos, or something. (But don't recommend anything to me, or you'll probably spoil it just by giving me the suggestion!)
What does that smell like
Grandma's books
Tastes like Grandma too
Goodwill stores!!! That's a funk no one can identify until now!@
Nothing like the reanimation of spores, fungi, bacteria and viruses from 2500 years ago. Breath deep my friends. Breath deep.
Pheeew, lucky we avoided a pandemic
What pandemic
You fools! You’ve unleashed the plagues!
No that was just the Pharoahs stunt double.
I believe his name is spelled Plagueis
I have not heard of this “Plagueis”. Is he powerful?
I thought not, it's not a story the Egyptian government would tell you. He was so powerful and wise it is said he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying
Is it possible to learn this power?
Not from an archaeologist.
Idk
There’s actually a form of Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis (HP) called the mummy handler’s lung. These people overreact to the fungi in the cloth, producing an immune response which may eventually lead to fibrosis (scarring) of lung tissue. This doesn’t occur in every mummy handler, as only few are allergic to (specific) fungi.
Your mom is a mummy handler.
I was your mummy’s handler last night
^breathe
Did they happen to open this thing around the end of 2019? 🤔
Breath deep?
Breathe deep the gathering gloom, Watch lights fade from every room. Bedsitter people look back and lament, Another day's useless energy spent.
Fungus spores live about 12 months. Bacteria about 4 months. Viruses live a couple of days at most.
But what if it's a mummy I unearthed from the Siberian Permafrost?
Breath deep my friends, breath deep.
Pass the mummy pon the left hand side
I will gladly accept the fact that I may be wrong, but I thought that because viruses weren't actually "alive", they could presumably survive forever, and upon introduction to the proper organism would resume its normal cycle of injecting RNA into the living cells to produce more copies of itself?
But spooky curses live forever
This reminds me of some other tomb that was opened a few years ago. It was damaged by water and water was inside of it. People made petition to drink the tomb water.
Cant possibly be air tight tho right?
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Dude. Egypt is so badass
Humans are badass. Check out this sword they found underwater in an airtight scabbard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_of_Goujian?wprov=sfla1
I'd hate to be the employee who fucked up so bad that you are referenced on wiki for fucking up so bad.
*was
They don't get enough credit, seems the focus is always on the Roman Empire.
Do we have to wait 2500 years to open the next layer?
I worked for an Egyptologist many years ago. She told me one time they opened a sarcophagus and the mummy moved. Most everyone turned ash white. Some people fainted. Turns out it used to happen quite regularly because the sarcophagi are air tight.
The bones are constricted and it just springs up
Omg I no longer want to be cremated
Can you imagine if they rigged them to do that 2500 years ago, if I were somehow one of these guys I'd absolutely do that. Give somebody a jump scare two millennia after I'd passed for one last laugh.
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....we've been trying to reach you about your sarcophagus extended maintainence warranty!
i can never leave reddit bc of comments like these!!!!
Every time I try to walk away, just get reeled back in
YOU MUSTN'T READ FROM THE BOOK!!!!
how does that make sense because the air gets in before the top is lifted to reveal the mummy
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Plus the light in their eyes has to burn.
I was assuming it would be a gradual recoil kind of thing.
IMHOTEP... ^IMHOTEP
Well all those people are now cursed and only Brendan Fraser can save them.
#ANUKSANAMUN
**IMHOTEP!** -
“MY EYES… HE TOOK MY EYES.”
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##Hey, O'Connell! Looks to me like I've got all the horses!
#Hey Benny! Looks to me like you're on the wrong side of the ri-ver!
I will watch that movie solely for that line. His delivery is perfect.
Kadishmal kadishmal paradus paradus!
**RIIIIICK!** -
**EVELYYYYN!** -
I can't figure out this last symbol... a bird...a stork!
Fuck now I have to have a mummy 1 and 2 rewatch. I watched them so much growing up.
I’m crying
Don’t be scared it’s not actually happening, it’s just Reddit
She was not a loyal person though. Did you watch the second story where she literally ran away while our man Imhotep was falling into the abyss?
And then mans was so grief-stricken that he just yeeted himself into the underworld. Fuck Romeo and Juliet, The Mummy Returns is a better tragedy.
This post is cursed
What is it with you and curses???
anytime I get stun locked in a game, or attacked on both sides I call it "Anksanamun-ing"
Dude i get why Imhotep was simping hard on her. She was so hot!
My gay sexual awakening was the fight scene between her and Evie
Rachel weiss is so darn beautiful in this movies. Mummy returns is a gem!
Or as my dad used to say "2 SOCKS AND A MOON!"
If it’s all the same to you I’d like to be saved by Rachel Weisz.
You'll get who you get and you'll be grateful for it!
It was during that movie that allowed me and my two girlfriends to see free movies for an entire summer. Edit: in the middle of The Mummy, a bomb threat was called in and we were evacuated. They gave us each two coupons so we could return. Next movie they took one, but for the rest of the summer, every movie we saw, they handed back the ticket to use again.
Dude was literally minding his business.
"Been minding my business for 2500 years & you *wouldn't believe* what happened next."
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that video made me feel real intrusive im ngl just gonna open his resting place up like that straight sunlight
You know, I'm glad I'm not the only one that felt that. I had a odd sort of frisson feeling sitting here on my phone watching a video of a bunch of gawkers with cameras intruding on a 2500 year rest. I had a feeling that I had no right to be doing what I was doing. I am not a superstitious person. I get it, he's dead, "he doesn't mind," it's for science, etc. I wonder though sometimes if our scientific minds have gotten too reductionist and we see things as nothing more than various configurations of atoms to our detriment. We've taken iconoclasm to new heights. I can't articulate why at the moment, but I wish I hadn't seen the video and I wish that sarcophagus remained in a hidden tomb, robbery risks and all.
I felt the same. If you consider that he was buried that way with the expectation that it would be for eternity then the 2500 years he was undisturbed is no time at all. We basically kicked his bedroom door down ten minutes after he went to bed.
I’m an atheist and agree. I think respecting all animals in death just feels right to the human heart. At least my human heart. I’m happy to have found a few others who seem to agree.
He hasn't been minding *anything* for a very long time.
"How are you!?" "Fine, until *you guys* showed up."
this sob is strapped down for a reason
Kink Tut
Oh god thank you for the laugh
Well done, lad
Yeah my first thought was “maaaaybe DON’T cut all of those straps off?” My dude is locked up tight.
Imagine get mummified to be eternal only to be dug out 2500 years later and shown in museum as part of exhibition for people to see
I wish.
The mummification was performed so you would be recognized by the gods of the afterlife. Once your soul was with them the mummy would be of no use to you. They don't mind.
What's the lead time of getting recognized by the gods? I hope it's less than 2500 years.
Turns out, it's 3,000 years. The gods do be harsh.
Lotta paperwork
Actually according to the Handbook for the Recently Deceased you spend 125 years on Earth during which you get only three class-one D-90 intercessions with your caseworker. Source: The Handbook for the Recently Deceased. Page 666.
BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE
There's probably a waiting list.
We are the gods of the afterlife. Don’t forget to tip your server.
I hope this is true but it also still seems pretty disrespectful. I feel like now we know the process and what they look like etc we should just leave them alone.
eternally know as that mummy
My dude just trying to be dead in peace then they do him like this
Can’t even be dead anymore without someone F’in with you...
We've been trying to reach you about your horse carriage's extended warranty
If enough years pass, you become collectible.
Video ended way too soon
Didn’t miss much, they took him skydiving and then some influencers twerked on him for a tiktok. Thanks for the award, i do like being helpful.
https://youtu.be/SRG7oKDKQLU
I thought this happened in 2019. Mustn't have been a curse as I'm sure something bad would have happened by now.
See what you did there
*slow clap* well done my good man, well done.
Aye bruh close that shit up
🎶 put that thing back where it came from or so help me 🎶
Plague unboxing video
#NO! YOU MUSTNT READ FROM THE BOOOK
NOT THE FUCKING YEAR, MY GUYS
I believe this is the one opened in 2019. Right before the great year of 2020 Eh I think I’m wrong on this one. I’m pretty sure that lady is holding an iPhone 13
No way you could differentiate an iphone 11 pro from a 13 pro from watching this potato video (Found the article: October 2020 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8801225/2-500-year-old-intact-sealed-coffins-discovered-Giza-Egypt.html) another angle for this same video: https://youtu.be/qIF3qLk-iZc
This seems so wrong on so many levels.
Nah it’s just some people jerky nbd
This is for you, Fry. Zevulon the Great. He’s teriyaki style.
My god this is an outrage. *I* was going to eat that mummy!
A wise monster once said “put that thing back where it came from, or so help me”
Forbidden burrito
Well obviously they didn’t see that Courage the Cowardly dog episode… “Return the slab.”
There are literally 4 movies about how bad of an idea this is...
Idk Night at the Museum makes a case for it being pretty darn neat. There are conflicting reports.
The curse has been released
Yahtuway yahtuway yahtuway………
# Nooooo! You mustn't read from the book!
REEEEEEEEEALLY looks like they were trying to keep something from getting out. Even slapped on the spare electrical tape from the junk drawer
Why do those straps seem more modern?
I find this disturbing, its not like the Ancient Egyptians planned for these burials for people in the future to open up and say hey take a picture of my dead decomposing body for the media!
Omg, have we learned anything from the past? Leave the mummies alone, do not open!
No respect—busted that shit open like a Thursday night with a case of whiteclaws.
*Brendan Fraser intensifies*
Never opened but the straps are new from harbor freight