Egyptologist Shows Us The Art Of Mummification

Ever been Mummy-curious? Egyptologist Chris Naunton joins us to demonstrate the ancient Egyptian art of mummification.
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[@nick_plays22]

Now I know for next time

[@The-egg-cult.]

Which step did you get wrong la 😂

[@nick_plays22]

@@The-egg-cult. Not Moving the brain through the nose

[@The-egg-cult.]

​@@nick_plays22😂😂

[@cleverusername9369]

​@@The-egg-cult. I forgot to slather my last corpse in BBQ sauce, like an IDIOT

[@carag2567]

​@@nick_plays22How did you get it out last time?

[@egavasnai]

This is brilliant, we need more just like this. RIP Joe

[@Andrew-mp9hu]

One of my buddies was a mummy. Cool guy. He liked his coffee “de-coffin-ated.” I’ll see myself out.

[@carloshenriquezimmer7543]

Once I knew a mummy,. I did not liked the guy, you know, he was kinda rude. I mean, he was all salty and stiff, had a dead-pan dry humour, I could never unwrap what was wrong with him... Sorry, but I had to...

[@samuelgarrod8327]

Good, that's best.

[@Chlo-ee]

Enjoying these Egyptology topics. RIP Joe

[@WaiferThyme]

You managed to turn a rather macabre topic into one of the funniest things I've seen in ages! 😂😂😂

[@carloshenriquezimmer7543]

One of my teachers once showed a video he found, of a similar presentation, with a whole piglet. He narrated it while showing the process. For the removal of the organs, the guy made the egiptian cut and removed the entrails, washed them and placed them in pots. Then he skipped the part were they removed the rest of the organs, then proceded to "purifie" the body, with a seasoned red wine, then covered it with salt for a while. Another skip and he applied the "aromatic embalming oils" (in his case, melted butter mixed with herbs and pepper), and wrapped it wit bandages made of tin-foil and cheesecloth, For the amulets, whole garlic cloves were used. The "sarcophagus" was a ceramic baking tray, with a ceramic lid, sealed with fresh clay. The final was the "high priest" taking the "mummy" to "the burial place" and "laying it to rest for ethernity", well... you know, actually was a cook, sending the fancy roast to the oven, for 120 minutes or so... It was a history video, to explain mumification, but why waste a perfectly good piglet, rigth? It was just missing the brain scoop, but they had the whole head cut off at the first scene skip.

[@Feline_Frenzy53]

Delightful video, Chris. Thank you. Poor Joe may he RIP.

[@CarolynParsons-mv1ji]

This is very informative. Thank you! The BBQ sauce is hilarious, though! 😂😂 Poor Joe!

[@erichammond7140]

Next day delivery is priceless 😂

[@aaronburns9538]

If a mummy ever tried to grab me I would do a sweet backflip out of the window. It would look awesome.

[@samuelgarrod8327]

No it wouldn't, it would look like really really bad CGI.

[@lemon_j22]

So interesting.

[@hal90001]

Let him cook!

[@CJ-uf6xl]

What a wonderfully entertaining video, the BBQ sauce was genius 😄

[@nanceeM1313]

Learned some from the The Mummy movie ~ rip Joe 🌹

[@DJL78]

Joe’s was a huge fan of the film “Boxing Helena” from 1993. 😂 I hope he is applauding and dancing in the next life.

[@BlancheFury]

You really got me with the barbecue sauce. I almost spit my coffee on my monitor.

[@durangodave]

why am i hungry 🤣😂🤣

[@tonyharpur8383]

'Cannibal' Lector...?!😂

[@zacharymcmullen9444]

Rip Joe 😢

[@sjodoin1474]

Instructional and funny! Thx Chris!

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

A wonderful description and introduction

[@DiddlyPenguin]

Poor Joe. I don’t know what he died from but at least he is embalmed & buried with all due ceremony. Actually I found it very interesting. Thanks 😊

[@54mgtf22]

Very interesting. Thanks Chris. 👍

[@belovedchaos1]

I kind of expected your to pan to throwing the box in the garbage as a montage to the afterlife 😂. Well done!! ❤

[@johnkim791]

This was awesome!!!

[@tinamagnuson2]

One of the best books in the past 25 years is “The Mummy Congress”

[@nickim6571]

I saw a documentary about mummification a few years ago where they used an actual human body.

[@davidcaldecoat7414]

Totally Brllant Chris

[@thelilbrans]

...here's a dessicated mummy I've done up earlier, for the magic of television. 😂

[@sueb8270]

🤣😂🤣 very funny but informative! Barbecue embalming 😂

[@morgangallowglass8668]

Joe is lucky to have you as his Sem Priest...Even if you forgot the Djat Ra. You did not mention the precautions taken with the bodies of younger women, letting them rot a bit before taking them to the mummy makers!

[@Mikkelltheimmortal]

Great presentation. I am finding this quite fascinating because it's almost a polar opposite of what my people believe, and that is once you die the body is of no use so we burn the body on a pire to turn it into fertilizer. Then spread the ashes onto the persons farm. The belief is that the persons spirit won't be confused where they should be if their body is gone. And that the last gift from the person who died is life (the fertilizer). We believe in the ciclicle nature of the universe and flow with it. We have no god or goddess, no deity of any kind because they are all weaker than us and we do not have room for the weakness that comes with religion. And as history has proven time and time again that all religions are lies designed to control the masses, we are absolutely uncontrollable. You will never find a shred of religious iconography with my people. So as you see, quite the contrasting difference of view of death.

[@mikitz]

Next episode: Joe's 19th Century style unwrapping party.

[@infledermaus]

How mummies are made: 3d printing.

[@Emthe30something]

Would the body cavity be stiched up or left open normally?

[@eggbert191]

It was done with a small incision. Maybe 5 or 6 inches long. Once the body was empty it was packed with natron bundles and sewn up

[@leito7195]

So funny Joe

[@Kennybooy9]

Many New Zealanders practice this too. On live relatives. Then they get their dole and benefits.

[@MauraVH]

Where were the bodies kept during the 70 days, and what happened if there was an illness going around killing loads of people - would the process be sped up or abandoned due to fears of contagion or lack of resources?

[@crystalclear6660]

Now I know how to mummy people. Cool!

[@eileenbass952]

RIP Joe, they left the heart in as they believed the soul was there!

[@maryknight4109]

What happens to the jars with the saved organs? Are they kept with the mummified corpse in the coffin?

[@ambermerefield7742]

The canopic jars are kept in the crypt/tomb but not inside the coffin or outer coffin layers

[@EdenGalactic]

#africa #nubia #kemet #science

[@maryhildreth754]

Wouldnt obsidian be too fragile?

[@bastelkiste2242]

Good job😅

[@mark-ws9zo]

that the language that the Copts speak has nothing to do with how the ancient Egyptians spoke. Copts speak Greek, and I now challenge him to come up with any ancient word from what these Copts speak today. The first mistake, Ra, does not mean the sun

[@cleverusername9369]

You went to all the trouble of killing Joe for this video but you couldn't be bothered to make palm wine? Interesting priorities.

[@kingerikthegreatest.ofall.7860]

Poor Joe, we hardly knew you .

[@noahway13]

They did not drain the blood?

[@fotograf736]

So hieroglyphic symbol is a letter or syllable?

[@carloshenriquezimmer7543]

YES... and also words, but sometimes numbers...

[@JustyPeachy]

Rip joe

[@Jon-cw8bb]

That's all well and good but you didn't have to kill Joe just for a video

[@patriciatoomingtheplantpar2558]

Change your playback speed to 1.5 and it is easier to follow. Very interesting nonetheless

[@Jesterjones9073]

Wonder why they left the kidneys?

[@Jesterjones9073]

Looked this up, it seems that along with the heart the kidneys were thought to be involved with intelligence and sentiment.

[@alwina2452]

Is this aimed at children?

[@hal90001]

If they annoy you, go for it!

[@morpar318]

I’m tired of everybody talking about it and showing depictions animations and figuring and the errs they were kept in now when is someone actually going to show a documentary on doing it heck I would be willing on being the individuals it gets mummified for that purpose granted it would have to be upon my passing. Any legit medical association want to take me up on my offer.

[@carloshenriquezimmer7543]

There is at least one burial house in USA that does the full process, you can even have your custom sarcophagus. It is not cheap, even for burials' standarts, and I don't remember wich state it is. Or you can be sent to be prepared in Egipt, they used to do that, for a substatial price. I heard of both in the late 90s, IDK if they'r still going. And there is one documentary were they did exaclty that, but you can barely see anythyng. You know, having someones braisn sloshed and scooped out of from the nose is in bad taste for a TV show; it is maybe even worse than Ancient Aliens...

[@eggbert191]

There are videos. I believe one included egyptologist Salima Ikram

[@hamgelato8143]

oh no, they white wash my boy joe and then black faced him

[@iTellaThePun]

I had always learned Egyptian women became mummies when they didn't use birth control. Sad commentary on the public school system.

[@karlcher]

How is a white, Anglo Saxon dude an expert in Egyptology? There's no one native to Egypt available? Where is mr Hawas and co.?

[@pheart2381]

Nope. Get over it.

[@DJL78]

LOL. Hawass is a con-man fraud. The Donald Trump of Egyptologists.

[@andrasszabo1570]

Do you need to be a bird to become an expert in ornithology?

[@yolandacroes5491]

Maybe Hawas and colleagues have a yt history channel in Arabic. Why would you think they can only be featured in an English channel? Google it and support it.

[@ffotograffydd]

Anglo-Saxon? It’s 2024 not 924… 😂