Servants of the Serpent Goddess (Full Episode) | Kingdom of the Mummies

Dr. Ramadan Hussein discovers the tombs of three priests with lavish mummies. One thing connects them all - the worship of a mysterious snake goddess.
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[@arkoub]

What an amazing documentary, thanks NatGeo. Maybe this gives some credit to the brilliant archaeologist, Dr. Ramadan Hussein, who sadly passed away last year.

[@msmysticstorytime]

many die after opening these tombs

[@delfiobacco7156]

@@msmysticstorytime before reading this comments i was just thinking "i wonder what happened to the archaeologist after opening the sarcophagi"...

[@lesliewells-ig5dl]

​@@msmysticstorytimeEveryone dies, those who have opened sarcophagi and those who have not. The "curse of the mummy" is superstition, not fact. I say that, fully aware of what happened to the people involved in opening King Tut's tomb.

[@DoggStyle]

Leave the dead as they are , you mess with the dead you die like the rest...

[@lesliewells-ig5dl]

@@DoggStyle We're all going to die like the rest, including you and including me.

[@mat4263]

Just wanted to share with everyone the sad news that Dr. Ramadan Hussein passed away in March 2022. "Ramadan B. Hussein, the archaeologist who associated his name with a series of exceptional discoveries in Saqqara, Egypt, has passed away after a short severe illness."

[@dr.p.d.sargent4893]

Intuitive brilliance, curiosity, and intense training and experience cut short. His legacy of hidden history lives on with our gratitude.

[@laughingoutloud5742]

Oh no that's sad! Thanks for letting us know. 😢

[@mariaelizabethgarcia1815]

He was one of my favorites Egyptologist

[@zakkkhg]

Innalillahi wa inna ilaihi rajeune

[@dbwhab4150]

oh no! May he rest in peace! hopefully he gets to meet these folks he dug up, in the afterlife

[@n.k.s74]

I'm two minded about such discoveries. I love the history and knowledge these discoveries give us. It's important to know where we came from and how we evolved as humans. However, the reason the bodies were so lovingly entombed was so their mortal remains could be undisturbed. It seems disrespectful to disturb their rest.

[@bosswan118]

Nail on the head

[@prosperbydivinedesign5257]

I concur.

[@NebetSeta]

Same feelings here.

[@idontknowanymore8968]

Ditto

[@RoCkShaDoWWaLkEr]

When invaders inhabit a land they have no historical ties to, respect is the last thing they'll ever show.

[@Dubhaltagh]

archaeologists finding the priests: and they were roomates

[@chris.asi_romeo]

Love watching documentaries like this.

[@markvenaglia1548]

Practical, informed commentaries from both Egyptologis. Very much appreciated.

[@whitedomerobert]

Dr Salema Ikram, It is so good to see and hear you again. The experience and expertise lend this documentary a great deal of scholarship weight. It is hard to know who to trust any more. Your participation here help me to know this is safe and I can trust it’s out come.

[@joseHernandez-xc4ix]

I wish Disney never bought National Geographic 😢 . This was so cool and I will be missing these types of videos

[@ZadiusC]

Why is Disney buying them a bad thing? I already watched this on Disney, and it's still here free on KZbin...

[@eileennegron2882]

Their passion is what makes this so enjoyable to watch. Thank you!

[@PiperPurdon]

Fascinating discovering another goddess unknown in typical Egyptian History and their priests who appear to be highly elevated males and females of possibly Libyan descent.

[@msmysticstorytime]

no not libyan descent

[@PiperPurdon]

@@msmysticstorytime I said “possibly”

[@gardengeek3041]

The first mummy scanned looks to be the height of a child or adolescent. It's a shame that the skeleton has crumbled so much. But, if teeth are still intact, maybe there's a chance of recovering DNA. It would be a way to verify if the two are related: mother/daughter for example. It's breathtaking to see how far archaeology has progressed since king Tut was unearthed a hundred years ago. Not just by embracing medical science technology, but the extent to which Egyptians themselves are involved as the scientists. They speak an English we can all understand; and some on that team can read THREE unrelated alphabets. The level of education is quite an achievement. But apparently that's what it to arrive at this next level of discovery. Also, highly appropriate that Egyptian experts are on top of these latest discoveries because of what the first DNA analyses revealed about 20 years ago. Many modern Egyptians are related to and descended from the very people who created these marvels thousands of years ago A first-rate documentary. It hasn't been dumbed down, nor dramatized. Thank you, and bravo!

[@lesliewells-ig5dl]

Yes, I agree!

[@Plumeria808]

Best one I’ve watched

[@misyelislaslife]

Hoping that I can go to Egypt someday. lots of Love to the Egyptian ancient culture and beliefs

[@theddixusa]

you have to think like me😍

[@Pantomathh]

ancient Egypt always attracts me.

[@kimoshoheeb5402]

Each piece is telling a history ..

[@drillab8515]

I love this!!! Ancient Egypt is such a fascinating topic to me so many mysteries that are still to be discovered

[@storyspeakingtree]

When you love your job, even the hot sun wouldn't bother you.

[@theddixusa]

As long as I like it, I won't be afraid of difficult things

[@MelancholischerMond]

It is the 1st day if my summer vacay and I consume history documentations. I started with an older episode of Time Team which was about 11 skeketons found in a Victorian shed. Now I watch this. I love it. My vacay is great.

[@illiasemenenko1012]

Try also Heliopolis, The City of the Sun with Dr. Raue, it is great. Wish you a wonderful vacation 👍

[@ingridbergman5593]

Mir gefällt sehr, dass du in den Ferien gerne lernst! Jag gillar verkligen att du tycker om att lära dig på din semester! I really like that you enjoy learning on your holidays! Wirklich cool, riktigt coolt, min vän!

[@aayu7117]

I'm doing the same this vacation....regretting it for not finding it sooner...this is just sooo interesting to watch and learn

[@superiorbynature]

Imagine to be someone or something that has survived untouched unseen for 3000 years! Fascinating considering the hundreds of 1000s of cemeteries lost to time.

[@kingjoe3rd]

This was such a great video. It felt like being a part of the archaeological discovery of an ancient Egyptian mummy.

[@lenlen4388]

same thoughts

[@gidisworld4715]

For the fact that this is revealed while I'm still alive is the most amazing thing to me, thank you

[@theddixusa]

everyone will be like you

[@JEFFQUICKLE9]

LOL what has been revealed here? Nothing....

[@gidisworld4715]

@@JEFFQUICKLE9 that dead body could have been opened one thousand years ago, but no, it happened at my own time so is amazing if not for you

[@sagorhosseinneel3947]

JUST LOVED THE DOCUMENTORY

[@ITsMyWay20]

Im somewhat fascinated that im willing to stay up all night just to watch it. Funny. It does give us an insight to how this generation of people lived survived and prepared for there loved ones.

[@user-lh9ms1zo3q]

Most valuable things they discovered.. Amazing Video!!! Thanks so much for sharing this amazing Video!!!.

[@rpgadventurer32]

Incredible discoveries, but you should allow these bodies to remain in their place of burial.

[@fansizhe9997]

Amazing Video!!!👍👏🏻👏🏻😍😍😍 Thanks so much for sharing this amazing Video!!!🙏🙏🙏😍

[@rhondaragsdale]

I wish they would just be honest about how much of their interpretation is basically guessing and then imagining narratives around their guesses.

[@ankitsonariya918]

Hieroglyphs have a surviving language so it's not as much guessing as some others

[@trader2137]

they are educated about the context of their research unlike you who's just guessing here

[@JEFFQUICKLE9]

@@trader2137 They are educated? LOL that's funny! They are guessing and making things up!

[@maggieo6672]

I thoroughly enjoyed this presentation, thanks so much for sharing. ❤️🎶

[@paopao3578]

2 Years ago, when my grandma passed away, we had to open our grandpa's tomb, yess tomb at our family's mausoleum. Our grandpa passed away 18 years ago. Maybe it was their wish to be buried together. After consulting with the elders, we prepare rituals as per tradition. When we finally opened the tomb, I was shocked that they had to open the coffin of my grandpa. I was like "WHY DID YOU HAVE TO OPEN IT?! Even After 18yrs, there still flesh remain and intact. and after checking, we cleaned and changed the cloth that covers the body and put some things which my grandpa loves. I cannot explain what I was feeling at that time opening a tomb and a coffin after 18yrs. It was overwhelming and unexplainable feeling. Watching this reminds me of that time.

[@Ithinkthereforeiam-ph9nb]

You did well, you honored your grandfather 18 years after he died. You did well!!

[@paopao3578]

@@Ithinkthereforeiam-ph9nb Yes. But we have been cleaning and have offerings to his tomb every year as per tradition. It’s just we literally opened it when my grandma passed away to be able to bury them side by side

[@Ithinkthereforeiam-ph9nb]

@@paopao3578 I understood you.

[@NThony1]

I may be wrong, but it seemed like they messed up the first mummy when it was lifted up

[@GodisaVerb2.]

I know vets have access to x-ray machines that are hand carried and they can take it right up to the animal to use it. If they had one of those there would be no need to move the body. I think that would give better results because it looked like they ruined one of those as they picked it up.

[@kellharris2491]

Yeah.

[@karenkaten9243]

Why digging up mummies when it has been preserved for thousand years. I believe in this lifetime we have destroyed so many things in this world. In its original location it has been preserved, until once we remove it we have destroyed it. So sad.

[@ColtonCarnahan-ev2xk]

It is unbelievable to imagine that thousands of years ago, humans were so advanced in a corner of the earth and created such buildings.

[@user-sk3vd9xl6c]

مصر فقط🇪🇬♥️

[@anlupietro]

"One piece" she said, after they had broken it into pieces.

[@luispedrolobo09]

"Two beautiful coffins" that we just ripped...

[@AbrorOtajonov-em1lf]

Thanks for such video👍

[@joshsanchez4342]

This was an awesome presentation

[@roadwithrodas5675]

This is really fascinating

[@conchitinabernardo4370]

This is AMAZING !!!!

[@kimoshoheeb5402]

Each piece is a close connection to God..

[@kasisatya5448]

Anybody else wondering how the he'll those deep shafts were made along with getting those heavy sarcophagus down them. Nope nobody asking those questions.

[@qadeerhussain5974]

Amazing and wonderful

[@jaime8317]

Im 2 minutes in...if i see zahi hawass...im turning it off

[@alancombe2411]

Brilliant documentary but why does the music have to be so loud, it makes it difficult to hear what is being said at times

[@jacquelinesilvers5267]

Facinating!

[@Shichman]

Supremely ironic when grave robbers are happy no grave robbers have visited before.

[@user-xx6qs1hb5q]

Increíble!. Facinating!.

[@user-fp5su9uu9f]

It’s a great documentary to give lots of knowledge about the Egyptian civilisation . I am also interested in archeology, to know them very well

[@UCMICU]

Fascinating culture!!❤

[@exploration_zone]

AMAZING !!!

[@ms.randomcommentor2752]

It is just sad that these mummies were disturbed and removed from their respective tombs. They're so delicate and fragile, kinda feel disappointed when they removed them from their sarcophagus to get x-rayed. :( Also, kudos to the foremen, who are the one's get the tough job to uncover these ancient tombs.

[@lukeightseven]

They destroyed them trying to x-ray them in a hurry , there’s definitely better ways to transport without destruction lol

[@houdinididiit]

Amazing when you watch this because this was literally the very end of Egypt just before Greece and Rome came to prominence. They had been around for 4000+ years.

[@user-hp8fe6zn1h]

In my opinion, the pyramids of Egypt and other huge stone monuments built in Egypt are much older than they think today.

[@karenfinneganart2480]

and we are honored to be first-hand witnesses to the opening of a never-before-open sarcophagus thanks to Dr Ramadan Hussein.😍

[@helenvislosky1064]

This is Great !

[@bhanuchandra28]

Most valuable things they discovered.

[@SITHONGDC]

amazing Location history😍😍 I love this

[@kimberlybanufong5423]

Well done 👍🏻

[@brankomilutinovic1992]

I love history but when it comes to ancient Egypt I will never understand that they take the dead out of their graves and put them in a museum. Some go to the museum and some go to the black market around the world.

[@delfiobacco7156]

absolute blasphemy.

[@HUNTER-oi1oj]

36:40 mummy was definitely Not In one piece because i heard A crack sound while lifting.😅

[@srilankatusker]

Beautiful video

[@heriniainateddyrakotomanan8785]

im watching this and i just keep thinking. why are we digging them out? let them rest in peace maybe?

[@thefunnysmoke1526]

You want some skulls to have peace? Do you also believe in their gods?

[@Kimdokja248]

We have to dig them out so that we know how the society of the ancient world were and for our knowledge of history before the grave disappear.Not only that there are tomb robber who will rob the tomb and take the mummified body or the stuff that the Ancient Egyptian puted in there so we have to dig them out before it gets rob. (My grammer might be bad)

[@samriddhatuladhar3913]

Isnt 2000 years rest enough ?

[@pedroj3432]

@@thefunnysmoke1526 its called respect. But sure

[@JEFFQUICKLE9]

@@samriddhatuladhar3913 LOL I like that! This "rest in peace" nonsense is really funny and stupid!

[@ark.0616]

Dr. Salema Ikram . I heard her name many weeks ago . “Ikram ,Ekram “ Such a fascinating discovery !

[@thegreatone107]

That was amazing

[@kb80550]

Facinating discovery. I hope there will be more information regarding this complex as the research continues. Peace.

[@theddixusa]

i want to be like you

[@JEFFQUICKLE9]

There will only be "opinions" and nothing more....and the millions of people who feel their opinions are FACTS and TRUTH.....

[@Hist0ryPodcast]

wow this is amazing

[@TubaKarimi]

The greatness of ancient Egyptian monuments is so unimaginable for modern humans that they really have no choice but to argue for extraterrestrial intervention.

[@Rlip]

It’s amazing how old it is and how long they reined for. I could only imagine they stuff they saw and what led was like !!!

[@Darkstar-se6wc]

*reigned

[@Mr.History01]

❤One of the masterpieces of ancient Egyptian civilization

[@2rueLIFE]

**Moves mummy and body fragments and crumbles** "Great job! All in one piece!" XD

[@faithk1892]

Yes exactly. They move it and it makes me cringe that I can see it all shift and move under there.....eeeeek.

[@lovely.nellie]

I love watching documentaries on Egypt, but I really hate seeing tombs and the dead being disturbed in this way. It is quite disturbing.

[@MysteriousTreasures9868]

very good

[@yessisaltoscedeno8715]

Increíble!

[@debrabatson6678]

Very interesting!

[@kimberlystroud7778]

You are brilliant..been trying to figure out the connection to quartz and hematite. You just answered all my questions. This free energy has been around before the Egyptians. Just couldn't connect earth crust and sand. Again thank you ❤

[@bikashdas9806]

Wow nice ❤❤

[@ArtefactumJohn]

History is to Interesting !

[@karinaharvey658]

at 38:19, you can see the bones of the right hand on the pelvic x-ray. The first mummy, Shamamit, is a priestess as well!!

[@Ithinkthereforeiam-ph9nb]

they were all females...

[@sagar5099]

Serpent godess Wadjed 🐍❤

[@SynapseDriven]

wow, just wow

[@youlikethischainits3dollar157]

When they tried to do XRay, I think the mummies bones got destroyed/displaced.

[@calvintony6763]

I love this kind of videos ❤

[@theddixusa]

a very wonderful and meaningful video

[@SicminD]

Beautiful to your eyes but a big disturbance to that resting soul.😐

[@JEFFQUICKLE9]

LOL disturbing for someone who has been resting for 2,500 years?

[@SicminD]

@@JEFFQUICKLE9 dude try to be a mummy and if ever i've been reincarnated one day i'll try to find your grave and dig your bones out of your resting place..

[@sarasarah1810]

didnt protect him in the afterlife after all now did it? no because more humans have to keep digging em up under the flag of so we can learn more about em. as if we dont know enough about them now. leave ppl in their burials alone.

[@mikolfarley]

I understand how curious people like archaeologists and myself are, send it were interested in finding out our true history. I don't think we were supposed to open these things. That's clearly while they were built the way they were built they didn't want people in there, are you not disturbing the transcendental cosmic journey of your people by doing this.

[@Darrin-el8gf]

They knew something that most people didn't😊

[@tishw4576]

I love watching the discovery of the tombs. I also know the tombs are a gravesite. The money involved thru tourism and research is too good to pass up.

[@rapufara]

serpent either god/goddess worship is common in almost all cultures all over the world

[@miah08dude35]

Wow!

[@MiguelDLewis]

Africans really do love their beads and masks, even in ancient times...🤔🤔

[@Tethers01]

Amahote?

[@MiguelDLewis]

@@Tethers01 ?

[@tjones673]

When they ply the stone out, I was waiting for the toxic gas to shoot out just like in the movie

[@williamsparks1036]

That necklace was gold, not rusty as pictured here.

[@AQUAMAGNET]

You lied within the first sentence, "archeologists didnt remove anything" it was the nameless manual laborers as your eyes can see lol

[@mixedlove1234]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@anandbharti18]

These are the kids studying about the civilisation 3000 years ago

[@wylmtysf]

It's beautiful that women were more equal to men in ancient Egypt than anywhere else. Women were important parts of ancient Egyptian society and could even be priests. Amazing.

[@user-qj8ys8ti9e]

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[@richardnina79]

Let the ancients rest in peace 🙏

[@Khloud_El-Gammal]

الله يرحمك يا دكتور رمضان ويعفو عنك

[@SurprisedDivingBoard-vu9rz]

Mostly deadly snakes and bats in desert stayed in a particular regions and that's why those tombs there.

[@stefanschleps8758]

For those wishing for a deeper understanding of this cult of the Serpent Goddess. Need only to understand Parashakti and the Mother Kundalini ❤ teachings of India. Swasti.

[@blackdove3057]

There are older traditions. The Hindu chant Om during meditation. Sounds a lot like Amen/Amun to me - a serpent deity from southern Sudan which found its way into Egyptian spirituality.