Did the Ancient Egyptians Actually Walk Like…Well, Egyptians

[@TodayIFoundOut]

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[@justinanderson267]

Speaking of Egypt, have you guys heard of the helicopter hieroglyph? They say that it's just the result of multiple "stampings" overlapping each other. But I'm not buying it. I'd love to see a video on this!

[@archangel_one]

@@justinanderson267 So what we all REALLY want to know is: Was King Tut really born in Arizona and buried in his PJs?? "Buried in his jammies, Born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia, He was born in Arizona, lived in a condo made of stone-a, King Tut"

[@thespyderwithin]

If Jesus was crucified upside down, and therefore christians would use this as their symbolism, would Satanic use the right side up one? Lolz

[@archangel_one]

@@thespyderwithin Upside-down cross is St. Peter's cross -- but it depends on context. And I'm pretty sure that the really bad baddies use a blue D in a circle Ⓓ, but again, it depends on context.

[@gabhanhome]

Just signed up. Been trying to get to grips with React and update my javascript skills. They seem to have some good courses. And I've a month free now to figure it all out! Cheers!!

[@jeremyclegg3588]

So just to add something that was left out of the video that I learned years ago when studying Egyptian history. The weird representational art was designed to show as much of the human form as possible. That is why the chest is facing forward and the head is always in profile. Because heads are largly symmetrical, so you got the eye along with the torso. Also, you note that mostly they always had all of their fingers represented. This was because it was believed that the artistic representation of a figure could sustain them in the afterlife. Thus you want to get all of thier "parts" shown. That's also why you see a lot of images with the faces chipped away. It was a way to get revenge on a rival or to diminish somone from the past by their succsessor.

[@GrndAdmiralThrawn]

Damnatio Memoriae is such an interesting thing to study. We’ll never know how many instances actually worked, if they were done thoroughly enough. Just goes to show, historical revisionism has been going on for as long as history has been recorded. In fact, it’s still going on today. There was a movement to refer to Donald Trump as just “45” instead of by name. They even tried to stop that, as referring to him by number validated his presidency. If history were only kept by the current administration, they would have already defaced his art and scratched out his name.

[@thepastmaster5643]

I read a short story once in which two travellers in Egypt crossed paths with a man who offered them shelter for the night in which they assumed to be a cave. Come morning and they discovered that they slept in a small tomb and that their footprints in the mud were accompanied by a third set of footprints, both being left footed. Sadly I can't remember the name of it.

[@bunyipdragon9499]

​@@thepastmaster5643sounds cool.

[@jayceewedmak9524]

Thanks for the information 😊

[@compfox]

Just as mentioned at 4:28

[@route2070]

I'm going to guess....they did not walk like that.

[@stumpe9662]

Well yes...but also no

[@BaileyM666]

They walked like crabs

[@mr.joshua6818]

Maybe THAT'S the secret to how they built the pyramids... They had a Ministry of Funny Walks.

[@markkarasik2211]

😎I’m gonna go out on a limb and say also that King Tut was not born in Babylonia or raised in Arizona and if you know that reference you’re old like me!

[@Rastlov]

Maybe they walked like the Bangles

[@halia9874]

The posture of the arms indicates the movement of the feet when walking. These same strokes are found in ancient Chinese calligraphy with the word "walk", the shape of the arms makes the sense of a "bike axis", indicating that when one foot rises the other descends, advancing along the route.

[@Victoria-dh9vb]

According to my high-school history teacher, the part of your soul that left your body when you died would try to come back to your body in the afterlife... but it was really, really stupid. So the art was meant to convey as much of the human form as possible so that the soul had the best possible chance at recognizing what it was looking at. Idk if that was true, but it sure as heck stuck in my head

[@aazhie]

Ha ha, I beleive my teacher said the same. There are more than one soul, in Egyptian mythology, so I think that soul is the dumb one xD other parts of the soul, or souls had more of the intelligent, AFAIK

[@TheLuftpolsterfolie]

Pretty good representation.

[@davidbwa]

Another practical reason for folding the arms of a corpse then or now is simply for making the body fit in the container (sarcophagus, coffin etc). Modern coffins are often a bit bigger but old coffins that were angled didn't have a lot of extra room to the sides. So arms would tend to be on top of the body and folding them across each other helps them stay in place a bit better.

[@naingaung2748]

Petition to make them smaller because the crossing arms looks cool.

[@AngeliqueStP]

That dancer who made 'The Snake Charmer Song' popular was a famous\infamous personality performing under the name 'LITTLE EGYPT.' She's a fascinating character and (if it hasn't already been tackled) I'd love to see you cover her story! TYVM!

[@llamasugar5478]

My mom called our ‘72 Chevy “Little Egypt” because it had a shimmy! 😂

[@jrmckim]

​@@llamasugar5478😂

[@williestyle35]

Thank you! I would have remembered her without your comment. ☺

[@marklee81]

Steve Martin's "King Tut" was inspired by the touring exhibit of King Tut in the mid to late 70s. There were a lot of other Egyptian themed things to come out of that craze. I guess the "Walk like an Egyptian" song was a bit late, but Steve Martin was definitely "walking" in that manner.

[@miked51]

Yeah, back in the 70's we took many a school field trip to the Field Museum here in Chicago for that exhibit. It was pretty cool, even for 8, 9 and 10 year old's. Fast forward to the 80's and Lord Almighty you couldn't go anywhere without hearing the Bangles song. MTV played it constantly. The Steve Martin skit is still so funny today.

[@laukinath194]

Born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia Born in Arizona - Got a condo made of stone-a - KING TUT!

[@patriciamerry7888]

@@laukinath194 He gave his life for tourism.

[@dianefelice9730]

@@miked51I remember seeing the amazing Egyptian Exhibit in Chicago when I was a young teen, and loved Steven Martin dancing to "King Tut". So fun! 😍

[@robinnicole4466]

Thanks captain obvious

[@colecole4779]

May I also mention that TUTANKHAMEN real name was originally TUTANKATAN. It meant son of the ATAN. Son of the sun god. At approximately 9 when his heretic father died, his Vazir TI felt it only appropriate to change his name to the name we know him as now. It was to show the people of ancient Egypt that his leadership meant the return of the many gods. Not the one. Plz, forgive me if all my spelling was not completely correct.

[@Liethen]

"Umm...Actually." (pushes up glasses and mouth breathes heavily) "It means "Living Image of" not "Son of" (licks braces)

[@colecole4779]

@@Liethen Thank you for the correction on the interpretation of Tut's name I always forget the full interpretation. We all have things we forget to put in to a fun fact.

[@maggiemae7539]

Not gods. Try demons

[@chrisschmidt355]

I had one helluva crush on Susanna Hoffs back in the day. I can't believe she would lie to me about something as important as how Egyptians walk! Our entire relationship was built on a sham. I feel so betrayed.

[@jphilb]

At least you can still remember her eyes.

[@jeffduncan9140]

😅😅

[@proto-geek248]

She got even cuter in later years, but I never liked that song.

[@brandenaguilar2962]

Imagine walking into an Egyptian city in ancient times and all the Egyptians there are walking like an Egyptian while non Egyptians walk normally lol its a funny thought.

[@jayceewedmak9524]

That's what I was thinking 😂😂 it'd be hilarious

[@susanfudge1737]

Sounds like a Far Side.

[@jayceewedmak9524]

@@susanfudge1737 my favourite cartoon!! 👍

[@fredblonder7850]

Note that in Egyptian art, you occasionally encounter a figure drawn in proper perspective. This will always be a god or a statue, but never a live human. Humans are the only things represented in the stylized “sideways” form.

[@dr_crimbo]

@tsa3b yes . but there is a lot more , there is evidence there was strong trade links with Ethiopia,. Nefertari may likely have been a Ethiopian princess , , unlike Cleopatra who was at there downfall and Greek ,

[@IvanMoncure]

@tsa3bTutankhamen was blonde tho, clearly there was some diversity there.

[@IvanMoncure]

@tsa3b Albino's don't have the features we are discussing. The forms in which we see traits like blonde hair and blue-green eyes evolved outside of africa after humans had migrated outwards. Their (minute) presence in Africa today is due to gene flow backwards into Africa from populations outside.

[@Jim-Mc]

Cool it's like regular people were flat but gods were fully 3 dimensional.

[@peteharper2687]

The name Tutankhamun is actualy 3 words meaning Living image of Amun. Amun being one of the pantheon of Egyptian gods. The name is writen backwards Amen-tut-ankh. Ankh is also a symbol representing life and Tut strong or courageous, possibly both.

[@akswrkzvyuu7jhd]

Simon, sometimes I think you overlook the mind-boggling amount of (important) information that is contained in your videos. The fact that the "Arabian Riff" is in Arban's Complete Method for Cornet has made the day of all trumpet players that saw this video. I checked and it is indeed in the 68 Duets section.

[@steveparker9361]

Thanks for that - saved me 20 minutes of page-turning to find it!

[@JohnMcCulloch75]

This episode is an absolute tour de force in waffling. Respect, Simon. We have much to learn from you.

[@jergarmar]

5:26 It's interesting that women are "usually" depicted as standing with their feet together... but in this scene what is shown is a statue of a women with her left foot forward. And in fact if you look it up, when women are in positions of power, they are also commonly depicted with their left foot forward. This includes women pharaohs, of course, but also women like Nefertari, the influential Great Royal Wife (principal wife) of Ahmos I. So I think the video is a bit misleading at this point; being depicted with the left foot forward is not a masculine trait, but simply shows power... and usually men were in power.

[@KryssLaBryn]

Not inherently.

[@user-dd5eh5lu3o]

@@thatoneguybones8036 You see it as masculine but power can be had by both women and men. Just because men took power more often doesn't mean that it is an inherently male trait. If you believed that, you might also think that the male body, because it is depicted as the template for all bodies, was the actual biological template for human beings when in fact every embryo starts life as female and only once the Y chromosome is introduced, the embryo them mutates into a male (something of an inside out female body). The template is female, and males also must have an X chromosome from their mother, whereas women do not have a Y at all. Male bodies have nipples because their mothers have nipples (males also have mammary glands and can lactate -- thank you, Scientific American). Males have breasts and can get breast cancer. (I know males don't like to call their breasts "breasts" because they're terribly afraid of that word, but if you look at old texts you will see such references to the "breast" of men over and over, such as when one strikes his breast three times in penitence (mea culpa, mea culpa...) or music soothes the savage breast (it's breast, not beast, sorry not sorry.) Your understanding of what is "masculine" appears quite flawed.

[@cobblestonegenerator2183]

​@@user-dd5eh5lu3oMen taking power more often establishes it as a masculine trait. If it was gender neutral then women would be just as represented as men. Thinking that the guy you responded to meant that women could never have power so much that you had to bring up breasts, chromosomes, and all that woman-splaining defensive posturing is why women aren't trusted with power by the way.

[@AJWRAJWR]

...And power is a masculine trait. A female in power is exhibiting her masculine side.

[@AJWRAJWR]

​@@user-dd5eh5lu3oLooks like your woke schooling has got you all muddled up.

[@modelermark172]

As a model builder, I've often wondered if the wooden figures - like those shown at 3:27 - on Egyptian model ships and in dioramas depicting daily activities, (such as making bread or brewing beer,) that were buried in royal tombs were required to be built to a standard scale? If so, does anyone know what this scale was, and if so was there was any religious significance to the scale chosen? Alternately, did the artisans just build their tomb models based on the amount of raw materials provided at the time of the model's commissioning?

[@fredblonder7850]

These are “ushabti” ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ushabti ). These are meant to serve the deceased in the afterlife. Like the sculptures of food that were meant to magically turn into real food, ushabti were meant to magically come to life to perform whatever task they were depicted doing. So basically, they were robots. Early ushabti were quite detailed and ornate, but over time they became simplified and eventually evolved into simple mummy figurines. I am not aware of any standardized scale for these, though those I have seen all seem to fall into the range of four to six inches tall.

[@williestyle35]

The answer as depicted by the original artists and archeological studies is, mostly yes*. The models and dioramas of "everyday life" like boats, animals, people, etc. are of generally the same size ( especially true within each Dynastic era ). Other wooden tomb objects like the "ushabti" also generally follow similar sizes in each era ( as commented above ). Not sure if anyone has found there to be religious significance in the size or scale used. But knowing the Ancient Egyptians, it is certainly possible. Do not forget the games, furniture, and other "personal items" in tombs would usually be wood as well - though those were most always "life size", used or new real items.

[@modelermark172]

@@williestyle35 Thank you. That is fascinating. While most models and dioramas today are the product of individuals, I wonder if the Ancient Egyptians were more 'specialized' modelers, with model ship builders obtaining crew figures from figure modelers, to be integrated in the main project at the workshop. This same figure modeler would also supply the figures for the farming, baking and brewing dioramas as well, and so everyone was on the same page, a specific scale was agreed upon, or specified, in advance. The Ancient Egyptians always impressed me with their modeling skills, so the idea that they would have an agreed-upon scale (or scales) the way we do today would not surprise me. Given that to the Ancient Egyptians, everything had significance, I also suspect there was some underlying reason for the scales chosen for their models; especially those for funerary purposes. As an aside, in modern times, popular scales include 1/144th, 1/72nd, 1/48th, and 1/32nd for aircraft models. Car models are usually built to 1/43rd, 1/64th, 1/32nd, and 1/24th or 1/25th. Military subjects tend to be 1/76th, 1/72nd, 1/56th, 1/48th, 1/35th, and 1/32nd. Popular ship scales include 1/700th, 1/600th, 1/350th, 1/200th, 1,100th, 1/96th, 1/64th, and some larger scales. Many of these are based on how easily they are divided by SAE measurements. For example, in 1/72nd scale, an inch is six feet, and in 1/48th, an inch is four feet. But I suspect Ancient Egyptian modelers had some deeper meaning in the scales they chose for their models.

[@stephsexoticpets]

what is a model builder??

[@mkv2718]

@@stephsexoticpetsa person who builds models as a hobby, you know, like small models… sometimes plastic, or clay, or wood. you do know what a model is… right? 🤨

[@MoonCat49]

Did anybody else sing The Bangles song in their head? 😂

[@sirandrelefaedelinoge]

No

[@ivoryjohnson4662]

I sure did 😂

[@henrimichelpierreplana4332]

I did..

[@TemplePriestess]

YES 😂🎉

[@momcat2223]

Girl, I started humming it when I clicked on the link to this video. 🤣

[@pakde8002]

I was thinking it's odd that not one of the stock photos depicted the iconic walk like an Egyptian pose😅 Today I found out why.

[@alexander-mauricemillamlae4567]

Nah don't listen to Simon it's actually copyrighted by the Office for Copyright Protection of the Galactic Federation (OfCPGF)

[@Loralanthalas]

I have wondered this an alarming amount of times throughout my lifetime

[@ImCarolB]

I've never heard that the snake charmer song was connected to the Egyptian stance. I know the famous belly dancer at the 1893 World's Fair was called Little Egypt, but I didn't think that she did ancient Egyptian poses. You learn something new every day. Most people in 1893 had a sketchy view of history. I still think of that song as having to do with what French people wear instead of pants.

[@henokabraha250]

Based on the music industries, all the musicians danced very well such as The Bangles - walk like Egyptian Michael Jackson - Remember the Time Katy Perry - black horse and so on the cartoons and comics. We enjoyed very well walking like Egyptians since our childhood.😊

[@zacharycollins9485]

Also: in Rush Hour 2, Chris Tucker does the "Egyptian-style Kung Fu." Lolz 😂

[@llamasugar5478]

The OG: Steve Martin’s “King Tut” (c. 1975)

[@chrislong3938]

@@llamasugar5478 ... gotta condo made of stona!

[@vojacked305]

It's jojo

[@llamasugar5478]

@@chrislong3938 😂 . . . Gave his life for tourism . . .

[@laurieforsythe8724]

I believe Steve Martin also used the riff in “King Tut.”

[@michaeldriggers7681]

That's what comes to mind every time I hear "walk like an Egyptian" even though I know it's a separate song.

[@skyden24195]

he certainly did.

[@stephenschroeder6567]

He also did a bit of the Walk like an Egyptian moves in the SNL original skit/performance. Great stuff!

[@oldyoldenough7327]

When the Arabian riff was played my brain reflexively filled in: "Even old New York was once New Amsterdam" 1:48

[@hebneh]

Why they changed it, I can’t say - people just liked it better that way.

[@dr.a.w]

@@hebneh It has to do with the British taking it over from the Dutch in 1664.

[@ruemistressofyeets]

@@dr.a.w Really? Our tour guide in Turkey said it was renamed by Kemal Ataturk when he modernized the country: "Istan" meaning "people" (thus why the names of so many countries in that part of the world end in -istan) and "bul" the equivalent of the Greek "polis", or city. So instead of being a leftover of the Byzantine Roman empire, it became the City of the People.

[@EricLS]

“Walk like a stylized modern interpretation of Egyptian traditional religious representation of the human forrrm” -The Bangles

[@aaronleverton4221]

- The rigid, ornamental unisex jewellery designed to be worn on the wrist or ankle, occasionally on the upper arm, plural.

[@williestyle35]

And here we see why the Bangles went with the simpler title. 😁

[@jayceewedmak9524]

​@@williestyle35😂

[@boston_octopus]

This is great!

[@morbius_of_krell]

So what? It's fun and cute.

[@Peter_Channel]

1:52 Not just the pose was ‘Bizarre’, but the ‘Adventure’ too 🧔🎩🔮🌎👦🗡🐶🦍👑

[@jonathandewberry289]

yes, it's really worth reminding people that art had different points and purposes in different times and be careful about superimposing our expectations on it. This is correct that (many times and places) art and depictions were like iconic representations NOT intended to be a 'realistic police sketch of the subject'. Yes, in some cultures these have proper religious and spiritual 'rules' and conventions and/or are can be like advanced hieroglyphics in the sense they communicate a story or event and not for 'amusement' or 'pleasure viewing'. You can think of modern 'graphic instructions'. This and much more with art through the ages. (actually, not really 'art' but graphics)

[@LondonMoonie]

Very well said, and I think your comparison to "graphics" is very apt, especially when thinking of instructional guides such as Egyptian funerary wall paintings.

[@peters8512]

Tell that to the "Humans were genetically engineered by giants" crowd. Gods big in art = gods big.

[@andysawyer647]

​@peters8512 I wasn't going to say anything, but he is not really close on why they move tge way they do or why they face the way they do. Geb (Male aspect of earth) and Nut (female aspect of the sky) had to be separated by Atum so Shu (air) and Tefnut (moisture) had to be placed between them to prevented unitened creation. They are describing scie ce through parable

[@Games_and_Music]

8:18 Gotta love Simon's rushing and name butchering. Possibly the most well-known pharaoh, and popular old era warfare strategy: "Two-tank Come on". Okay i made that last bit up, but that's what i thought of when i heard him say that.

[@fredblonder7850]

The Egyptian hieroglyph ANKH ( ☥ ) means “mirror” or “reflection”. You can see that the mirror is the polished round part at the top, and the handle the vertical part below. Akhenaten’s named his son “The image of Aten” or Tut-☥-aten. After his death, the priests restored the old religion and made Akhenaten’s son Pharaoh, changing his name to Tut-☥-Amun, Amun being one of the old gods being restored. So Tutankhamun simply means “Guy who looks like Amun”.

[@Games_and_Music]

@@fredblonder7850 Thanks for the history lesson, haha. I am aware of who Tutankhamun was, Simon's butchering of his name just amused me. I've heard it said many different ways, usually emphasizing on the "amun" part, but i don't think i had heard the "tank" part emphasized before until Simon came along.

[@mikesands4681]

Simon makes like 10 videos a week in various platforms. No time to look up pronunciation. Besides, British people traditionally aren't required to be correct.

[@ClickClack_Bam]

​@@mikesands4681Yea he's concerned about quantity not quality. He's become a greedy FUCK.

[@stitcher64]

How many words does Simon say in a minute? He must be the fastest talker on KZbin.

[@CoreKatalyst]

When you played the “Arabian riff” it struck me that it is the *exact same melody* that’s in Ke$ha’s song Take it Off. Dead ass just “there’s a place downtown where the freaks all come around”

[@jmmahony]

I'm surprised you didn't mention Steve Martin's famous 1978 SNL appearance where he did a song "King Tut". At the time, the remains of Tut were making a very well-publicized tour of American museums. The song starts with the Arabian music, and Steve and some dancers do the classic Egyptian dance moves. The song became a hit on radio, and the skit is certainly on most lists of top 10 original-cast SNL appearances. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIrFkqmrh8qJfJY

[@maggiestrasser9815]

Now when I die, don't think I'm a nut... Don't want no fancy funeral, just one like ol' King Tut!

[@welshpete12]

The most beautiful art of a human being, I have ever seen was in a tomb in Egypt . It looked as fresh as the day it was painted , it had wings like an angel . Which were out stretched protecting one of the corners of the tomb of the Pharaoh . I would have loved to have been able to take a photograph of it . But it was very dark in there and the flash my camera was not good enough . But the memory of it will stay with me for the rest of my life !

[@cycoholic]

I actually did that when was in front of the Great Pyramids in Egypt back in the late 80's. 🤦‍♂️

[@Loralanthalas]

😂😂😂

[@cycoholic]

@@Loralanthalas What can I say, I was 15 at the time. 🤣

[@choklityum]

EPIC! 😂

[@jayceewedmak9524]

It would have been sad if you hadn't 😂

[@proto-geek248]

Great way to honor this amazing, ancient civilization 👏

[@huntercollum869]

Never ceases to amaze me that we had masterfully crafted Michelangelesque marble statues of the gods a millenia and a half before we figured out how to draw with any amount of realism

[@LondonMoonie]

Michelangelo was largely painting in the 16th century, but I assume you are referring to the classical period (Greeks and Romans) who come AFTER the Egyptians on a timeline. Given that these are all VERY different cultures in very different cities and times, you can understand that these different people made art for different reasons, thus resulting in art that looks different to each other.

[@huntercollum869]

@@LondonMoonie Did I get responded to by a fucking one world AI? What sort of pointless reddit sounding nonsense is this? Did I say something implying that the Egyptians came to power after the classical period?

[@TSIRKLAND]

From what I know of art from the classical Greek and Roman eras, this is true. Statues were made with EXTREME realism and detail. Modern museums and full of beautifully sculpted Marble statues depicting the human form with exquisite detail: muscles, fingers, faces, dynamic poses, likenesses of specific people. Yet two-dimensional art from the same time and place was not nearly as realistic, but rather more stylized. Depictions of humans on pottery, for example: very silhouette, almost (though not quite) as stylized as Egyptian art. Awkward poses ,stylized line work, more uniform 'generic' features. Why? One reason may be practical. A sculpture is meant to be seen from all sides: walked around, seen from every angle. A 2-D representation, especially on a bowl with only two colors (black and ochre, for example) has to convey complex information more simply. If arms and legs are all a jumble, it's difficult to see. A body in silhouette is more visual. Modern "iconography" is similar- bathroom signs for "men" and "women." "Walk" and "don't walk" signs. "danger," "do not feed the bears," "caution hazardous electrical equipment," etc. Those are all a stark black silhouette of a very simplified human form, because it is the most generic and universally understood. If a "caution" sign were painted in oil paints using chiaroscuro lighting and contrapposto figure placement, it would take precious moments to decipher. A plain black silhouette is easier to read in two dimensions. That being said, there are murals, mosaics, etc. that do contain more realistic human figures, in complex poses, using a primitive perspective, with features that are unique, possible portraits. So they could do that, when they wanted to. It is interesting how the course of art in The West took many avenues. Art of the medieval period was quite stylized, even crude, by Greek or Roman standards. Every time and place has their own style; it's not a linear progression from "primitive" to "sophisticated." The use of mathematically linear perspective didn't come into Western, European, art until quite late. But even the Greeks had some, if not quite as mathematically precise.

[@apostately3384]

@@TSIRKLANDsome very good points. I’d like to note that, some eras of art might seem more “crude”, or “primitive”, than others, until you start to really look at the details. For example, medieval drawings don’t seem so crude when you pay attention to the wonderful facial expressions. They’re just as subtle and artful as any modern comic masterpiece.

[@RochelleHasTooManyHobbies]

What's interesting to note about this topic is perhaps that they did it entirely on purpose. Some of the oldest (via carbon dating) prehistoric cave paintings are more realistic than the ones dated a few hundred years later from similar regions, even though the techniques themselves became MORE precise (finer lines, more colors, etc.). Sometimes, as with Van Gogh, capturing the ESSENCE of what you're depicting is more important than making it photograph perfect. And then, as they said in the video and a few comments above, not all art has the same purpose. And if you're covering an entire building with graphic instructions.... Well. You're not going to sit there and make it photorealistic.

[@johnwmarsh]

Great video. I've appreciated everything I've seen from you guys so far. Also, majestic beard sir, well done.

[@Jourell1]

As a kid I was a fan of the Asterix and Obelix comic series. I remember a scene in Asterix and Cleopatra where the titular queen is presented with a portrait of herself.She says that she tires of seeing herself in profile and requests the next one be in 3/4 face. Though, of course, he doesn't say anything aloud, the artist mentally makes a disparaging comment about "modern art"

[@MrTruck1012]

Side note: That pharaoh he mentioned that introduced monotheism was the 2nd oldest son of the famous Jewish exodus pharaoh who drowned in the Red Sea, and older brother was killed by the Angel of the Passover. His mom actually did most of the “ruling” but he brought in monotheism. Of course being a child when the Jews lived and left Egypt, he didn’t get it quite right. (They did worship the “sun” just not the actual Son.) And now you know the rest of the story

[@trawetsj]

Great episode. Super info packed. Love the Bangles bit.

[@mr.honeycomb]

I came here for the Bangles references.

[@EmilyCheetham]

Actually the reason Akhenaten was drawn in the specific style choice we have found from research and genetics that due to the families in breeding Akhenaten would have had these feathers (larger hips, elongated head). King Tutankhamen had them too. It was also down to the in breeding that most likely was the reason king tut was unable to produce an heir (just the 2 premature still born babies buried with him).

[@Yezpahr]

Destroying childhood memes, a true genre upon itself.

[@karenjarrett8904]

Simon you always have such interesting material. Today’s was no exception. Thank you.

[@szpoti]

An impressive amount of work went into this one! Kudos!

[@Jiambo]

As someone who just got back from Egypt i can confirm that they not only walk like this, but sleep like this as well. This unfortunately knocks their pillows away so they often wake up with sore necks. Ive started a charity for medical research to cure these people from their suffering.

[@Marlin123]

Your doing god's work ❤

[@daerdevvyl4314]

Marlin123 Just so you know, you should always capitalize the word God when referring to God as a name and not "a god." To do otherwise is disrespectful. Unless of course you mean to be disrespectful of God, as many do.

[@Marlin123]

no.

[@cloudzack1090]

​@@daerdevvyl4314god God god God god God

[@ogun9645]

Pp u met in modern egypt are not anicet egyptians but turk/ottoman childrens

[@Mulavi]

A portion of a recently discovered tablet written in cuneiform has been translated into "1. Walk Like a Sumerian". The heading on the tablet was "TOTP". The second entry and only remaining translatable portion was "2. Never Gonna Give You ..." History just repeats itself.

[@johnkuhn8718]

woah what a great video! I'm about to check out more of your stuff! I'm looking forward to this rabbit hole

[@sharvo6]

No way Snake Charmer Song!! Totally Bangles' Walk Like an Egyptian!!!

[@vertigq5126]

This was fascinating! Thanks

[@aprildawnsunshine4326]

That was alot of information very quickly. I had to replay the part about the Lazarus sign 3x to be sure I heard it right. So freaky!

[@diyeana]

Finally! Answers to the question I've had nearly my entire life! Thank you Simon & TIFO team!

[@mlh4711]

eh? U ddin't watch it did u hahaha.

[@diyeana]

@@mlh4711 lol I did. I left my comment prior to watching the video, then didn't update after. 😆

[@cardinalgin]

I find your videos very interesting, Simon, but my first language being French and I being quite fluent in English, I still have some difficulty following your comment, due to speed, which is sad because it all feels very instructive (and reading cc's isn't fun, because then I miss the images). Is it because there is just so much time allowed for these kinds of videos and just too much info to put in?

[@eloisesmith6467]

Under the gear icon there is a place to control playback speed. You might find it useful. 🙂

[@cardinalgin]

@@eloisesmith6467 Thank you very much ! I'll try it. 😊

[@kdefensemartialarts8097]

Thank you for your videos.

[@grayhatjen5924]

"Being performed on kitchen utensils" - that had to have influenced some of the percussion stuff they used, the names of which, other than cowbell, I can't remember. The percussion for that song is so freakin fun.

[@ellen4956]

Maybe not, but if you look at a lot of the Egyptian paintings, some definitely invented the "vogue" pose.

[@solidghost4525]

I had no idea you were a content creator. I thought you were just the guy that reads the script. I learn something new every day.

[@BaybieK]

Archaeologists have discovered that break dancing was rather big in ancient Egypt.

[@thefrecklepuny]

I think Wilson Keppel & Betty had a lot to do with this supposed Egyptian pose during their Sad Dance routine. At least here in the UK.

[@flamencoprof]

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[@drewmurray2783]

Thank heavens - I was looking for somebody to mention them. They were the reason we think that Egyptians danced like that and they took the classic art pose, held it and danced that way. Clever, amusing and started the trend. Shame this video got that aspect so wrong.

[@DiscoCatsMeow]

" Walk Like an Egyptian" by the Bangles.😁 Best song ever.

[@BBQDad463]

Thank you for this video. Excellent information.

[@listenhere1623]

I'm disappointed Walk like an Egyptian by the Bangles wasn't the next recommended video

[@fandomgaming9072]

Whenever talking about ancient Egyptian art it’s useful to remember the massive time scales we’re working on. Very often when examples are shared they’ll be massively separated by hundreds of years, but it will not matter because they’ll be similar anyways. Aside from individual expression and that brief shift during the reform by Akhenaten, ancient Egypt held a nearly unchanged art tradition for thousands of years. The temporal span ancient Egypt covers will never cease to amaze me.

[@roodbennett]

Simon, my favourite KZbin presenter.

[@AJNpa80]

Rumour has it he's a cyborg - machine from the waist down - making videos 24 hours a day, for a constantly growing list of channels, from a secret basement lab somewhere in Eastern Europe. Machine below the desk, man grown in a test tube from brain cells alone from the waist up - but a beard hair fell into the petri dish and now it's grown like wildfire. Ex Soviet scientists from the ministry of education created a content making machine. Cranking out clips, only pausing for the scientists to cut back his ever growing beard, which stole the follicular growth potential from his head, which is able to keep cool through any workload as a side effect. They must continue carefully slashing and burning it back between videos so it doesn't expand and absorb the rest of the internet, and Europe itself. Also, he's proof, everywhere you can go with a plane, a boat, a 4wd and a hike, you'll find a Brit, even a secret lab in Eastern Europe. Every time I thought I went far, the 3rd village after I entered the jungle, a village only accessible by rowboat near the equator, after days of travel seeing only locals, after arriving at my destination, every time I thought I was truly out there, I'd sit down for a meal or a think and a lone British person would pop up as if conjured out of the wind itself.

[@roodbennett]

@@AJNpa80 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kurtwinter4422]

I prefer the host of Megaprojects

[@roodbennett]

@@kurtwinter4422 😂😂😂

[@ivorybishop2194]

Idk on the Egyptian walking thing. It’s hard to believe that their architecture included mathematical perspective and never depicted the weird walking but the painters somehow never figured that out. 🤷🏿‍♂️

[@inigo9000]

What architecture includes mathematical perspective? I never heard of the existence of architecture that’s 2D

[@CaskillsElliptic]

Excellent video. Thanks!

[@archangel_one]

Next Video: "NO, it's NOT another Manic Monday."

[@zSpirall]

Its been awhile since I watched you (sorry, life got in the way) but wow, did your beard grow out! Looks good.

[@Moondog-wc4vm]

Wilson, Keppel and Betty was strangely not mentioned. The modern cultural impact of that act is important on our view of ancient Egypt. As is the cultural impact of what they believed at the time. Neither is correct, but the popular belief is important to understand in order to know how to seperate fact from fiction. The popular song, the sleuth story on the Nile, many other even more fantastical stories (I'm looking at you Fraser) reflect our fascination with ancient Egypt, but the truth is, we know very little about a civilisation that was so compelling that it dominates entire university departments worldwide today and has done for more than a century.

[@YeeSoest]

"Amenhotep, better known as Akhenaten" Yeah uh...FAR better known! Superstar level popularity, think I saw that on a shirt today...

[@Junksaint]

That whole family just created populism in Egypt. It was awful, they warped their whole religion around themselves to become more like authoritarian mad kings with a cult following than kings/pharaohs. They hurt the Egyptian people for decades, they weren't real leaders that cared about the people.

[@sislertx]

Im pushing 80...and use to sing a ditty with the riff..i cant.remember the word at all...but where ALLIGATORS dance Was part of it...i was maybe ..well under 5 years old and got it wrong and always sang alligators pants..my older sisters would howl with laughter and ask me to sing it again...good times..good times.. Oh and I.was.convinced a grotto area in Arkansas we visited was where the alligators danced...because THEY TOLD ME IT WAS...my parents thought i had lost my mind.

[@grayhatjen5924]

@sislertx Okay, now I definitely have to look up this alligator dance song! Another commenter mentioned it as well (maybe more than one?)

[@Sucha_Hufflepuff]

I'm sorry to say it's been awhile since I've watched this channel. I swear I don't remember you talking so fast in the past, did you always and I just don't remember? Still love your content 😊

[@JoseTheRover]

1:30 of ads is wayyyyyyyyyyyy too much. Do they know that most of us skip through all of it?

[@ajallen178]

Yes they know

[@counterfeitsaint7479]

Today I Found Out that sometimes Simon uses very old photos of himself for the thumbnails and it can be very confusing.

[@seanspartan2023]

TL;DR... No, they didn't

[@nbarnes6225]

Awww....this makes me miss my Art of Ancient Egypt class. ❤

[@WayOfAges]

The androgyny of Amarna period art has also been explained as the realistic depiction of royalty after centuries of close inbreeding.

[@sandybarnes887]

Steve Martin. Cool King Tut dance

[@hihihehehuhuhaha]

As a kid I thought that was just Egyptian's dance, who tf thought they walked like that???

[@rays7805]

This video only needs to be five seconds long. "Did the ancient Egyptians really walk that way? Yes."

[@OUTSIDER40]

Thank you for making this video 👍

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

The explanation that made sense to me is that weird art styles become dominant when people use it more verbally than visually. They consider it trivial and empty to just copy what something looks like, and instead use standard images to state a position. Tends to happen when a culture convinces itself that it already knows everything about nature, so is bored by immediate facts of living. Like they think reality is mostly meaningless "clutter" that hides the truth. And the reverse is also true: If they convince themselves they're brand new in the world, they become obsessed with "capturing" moments and directly translating experience into visual form, as if they're the first person ever to see a thing. The latter has a lot more possibilities though, so way more interesting.

[@t0mn8r35]

Simon, your channels are the most interesting on KZbin.

[@LaylaSpellwind]

Currently replaying Assassin's Creed Origins. And watching Stargate. Seriously? This video came in great timing. Thanks as always, Simon + Writers and Editors.

[@Jiuhuashan]

One of the most fun TIFO episodes ever.

[@coreymasoy7034]

Awesome episode ❗🔥💯⚡👍

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

The Bangles LIED to me‽‽ 😭 I'm... I'm just heartbroken! LOL, this did a decent job covering that specific question, but what about the rest? There are some excellent channels here. Odyssey Ancient History (the bright mauve redhead is the best for Egypt), World of Antiquity, and Stefan Milo, just for starters. ❤️❤️

[@eros5420]

I saw a documentary where they used the magic of the drawings coming alive to play a card game where they would send people to the shadow realm.

[@ghost_undead]

This put that song back in my head. (Walk like an Egyptian)

[@theconqueringram5295]

Now I am going to listen to that 'Walk Like an Egyptian' song.

[@hugotavaresgomes9539]

04:39 hey, they are sharing icecream milkshake.

[@GlenHunt]

At this point, I think it should be, "As they say, 'The rest, as they say, is history.'"

[@Neonator08]

It's a shame youtubers dub out where they stop talking to take a breath. It creates a monotone onrush of words without interruption. It's far too fast. The narrator here needs to slow down and stop removing any pauses in his presentation. I agree people have a short attention span, but you'll keep more people if u give their brains a chance to catch up to your words and accent.

[@steelerspittsburgh875]

I thought that it was just me.

[@joe3eagles]

Thank goodness for closed captioning and playback speed control. With Simon's 10x normal speed speech, I wouldn't be able to understand 20 percent of what he's saying without it.

[@060steve]

Started singing Ke$ha when that Arabian riff played 😭

[@alansilverman8500]

"I'm a little teapot Short and stout... Here is my handle Here is my spout !"

[@Manofvideos292]

I enjoyed learning about the Snake charmer song. I've always wondered where the stereotypical Chinese riff comes from?

[@llamasugar5478]

Loved the video, but am a little disappointed that Steve Martin’s “King Tut” didn’t at least get a mention.

[@KingfisherTalkingPictures]

I never realized how realistic their sculpture is and how stylized the drawing is.

[@lenny5774]

I'm sorry, Simon. I thought the Elvis conspiracies were low, but your writers found another level.

[@KitKar79]

That captain REALLY DESERVES A RAISE AND A PROMOTION! He defied beaurocracy to save a life, and not just any life, the life of a child. Props. Please tell me this story has a better outcome for him. I'm so glad he did that for that poor kiddo. If he waited, it could have been much worse for the kid. Beaurocracy is one of the many things what's wrong with our society that we can easily change.

[@Viktoria_Selene]

Fun fact, paintings with perspective are not that new; There are frescos preserved by the lava of the vesuvious, in pompeii, which display this characteristic