Perfectly Recreating Egyptian Mummification... Just to Taste It

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[@thethoughtemporium]

Hey everyone, the posters are back on sale!! Come get yours! thethoughtemporium.ca/products/mummy-assembly-instructions-poster-pre-order

[@c.jishnu378]

1st reply?

[@Yitzh6k]

I like to imagine that Osiris has been bored as hell since mummification stopped, then thousands of years later a chicken shows up with all the spells to pass his test

[@nsr-ints]

"I... What?"

[@tbestig4164]

On top of that, it shows up with all the spells… AND NO STORIES OF THIS CHICKEN’S LIFE. Everything else with that much effort put into its mummification came along with extensive description of who it is and why they’re important. This chicken just shows up with maximum protection and zero explanation.

[@Alicorn_]

@@tbestig4164 And since the chicken was dead before it was chosen to be mummified, it likely doesn't even know why it ended up in the Egyptian afterlife. It probably led a dreary life on a factory farm, then awakened at the first test as an Apex Chicken Pharaoh. Sounds like an isekai plot.

[@blakksheep736]

​@@tbestig4164 so basically. > Chicken shows up to the Egyptian afterlife > Armed to the beak with spells > Refuses to elaborate

[@petevenuti7355]

Big bird

[@coreytaylor5386]

man, those Egyptians who are chilling in the afterlife are going to be really confused when a random, singular chicken appears for the first time in thousands of years

[@TheIbney00]

Don’t forget the one dude who they mummified for that 1980’s experiment

[@nsr-ints]

​@@TheIbney00this guy who popped up would probably be a celebrity lol, telling everyone about how things changed so much since then.

[@petevenuti7355]

Big bird

[@amellish]

not just a chicken, a modern chicken. the birds they would have known 2-4000 years ago would have been radically different. smaller, more gristle less fat and muscle. this thing would look like some sort of super chicken. they would probably think it was incredibly important given it got full pharaonic mummification, like it was the pharaoh of all chickens.

[@Beepers559]

@@amellishand then the emporium ate it

[@BigScreamingBaby]

"Mummies are only rare because we ate them" Is the funniest sentence ever no contest.

[@lolasdm6959]

Most traditional medicine believed you are what you eat, so if you want to heal a human body, the best way to do it is to eat one.

[@G_zuz]

​@@lolasdm6959 not "we" victorian europeans, they did worse so it's not unbelievable

[@NotEmilio]

@@G_zuz we as a species

[@austinblackburn8095]

​@@G_zuzPeople in Africa cut holes in the skulls of living people to release demonic spirits. I think we as a species believed weird shit to heal shit before modern medicine is accurate. Stop being so salty.

[@G_zuz]

@@NotEmilio nah, we don't do that as a species. Victorians drank tea made of dead people's juice, eating mummies aren't far of

[@Seafowl]

Imagine, it’s the year 3023, you find a house over 1000 years old, and inside is a preserved mummified chicken, nearly identical to ancient egypts methods, only issue is it’s been even longer since ancient Egypt, and also you’re in Canada

[@zidanemarkey1860]

Make sure to leave a copy of this video somewhere too

[@anapple6912]

longer than ancient egypt?

[@NexusGideon]

​@@anapple6912 it has been longer since egypt than when this new chicken mummy has been found. not that the new chicken mummy was around longer than ancient egypt.

[@mithrilld]

Imagine being a pharoah, spending your afterlife chilling in Duat, nobody has been sent here for thousands of years... then a chicken shows up.

[@X-SPONGED]

New pet

[@edwardandrewmowbray5820]

That's what crossed my mind!

[@ViktorRzh]

There was a guy from 1990-s, so it is not as lonely.

[@ctusiard9755]

Plus chances are some asshole in the 19th century ate you.

[@GuiSmith]

Not only that, there are definitely pharaohs and officials who went to the afterlife and then disappeared one day in a giant ball of fire. Because Victorians didn’t always use coal for trains (:

[@guts60]

Because they made a mummy successfully, used proper translations (if they could), made everything themselves, and did everything as authentically as possible, I am pretty sure that these three are, by all accounts, some of the foremost experts on Egyptian mummification. If they wrote a paper on it, it would be taken very seriously

[@thethoughtemporium]

We ARE writing a paper on it actually

[@menofscoobistherepublic7660]

@@thethoughtemporium awesome

[@lechking941]

@@thethoughtemporiumlovly, if theres anything this channel is good for, its the scientific papers that yall do as a product of the hyper fouces on the dumb ideas that so happen to basicly spearhead some REALLY lovly science so humanity can continue to be albe to understand shit better on the whole and maybe advance tech in the process.

[@lunarziggurat672]

​@@thethoughtemporium Oh, cool, I was just going to ask about documentation, as there are some parts that weren't in the video

[@Tome_Wyrm]

See now this is the kind of nerd I am. I''m supposed to use anointing oil? Ok, which one? Ah, so it's the Hebrew holy anointing oil? What's that? Calamus is in dispute as a translation? One month of in depth research later... I'm making the most accurate dang oil I have the capacity to make!

[@standard-carrier-wo-chan]

My dudes probably could've gotten a whole ass PhD from this research, and they did it to taste the mummy. Mad respect for the lengths bored humans will go for their curiosities. I also love the thought of this video, made and formatted specifically for KZbin consumption, is one of, if not THE best and most accurate display of the Ancient Egyptian mummification procedure.

[@abyssstrider2547]

Kinda weird how this comment has 500+ likes but no sub-comments.

[@witchy-wonderland1416]

@@abyssstrider2547 because there’s nothing to add- they said it perfectly

[@abyssstrider2547]

@@witchy-wonderland1416 True.

[@calthorp]

Many years ago I watched a documentary on TV, where they mummified an actual person.

[@user-aeb87825]

I mean as kids, we dreamt of doing some wacky things when we become scientist. If anything, they're just fulfilling their childhood dreams.

[@straightupnothavingagoodtime]

THIS IS SICK, I was expecting half-assed “we salted it and let it sit” but GODDAMN this was amazing!

[@eldritchcupcakes3195]

By that logic some steak KZbinrs have eaten mummies.

[@darkplasmo7921]

@@eldritchcupcakes3195 you do need the spices for the flavor, but the process is practically identical to salted meat making they just made the big mistake of not using enough salt and not changing it in butcher shops they have a cooled room with a big vat with salt 80 kg or more, and you put all the pieces in and every day you move it around you can even use the same salt over and over again

[@haileyv-log2326]

​@eldritchcupcakes3195 Yeah by that logic I would have eaten mummies

[@BaiLangLong]

Can you imagine Anubis, bored as hell in the afterlife because barely any mummies are being prepared anymore and then suddenly a chicken appears at your doorstep with full burial rites.

[@lucas9269]

O noble chicken, may your journey to the afterlife and resurection be sucessful!

[@otoz-9775]

What if the chickens heart wiegths more than one of its feathers

[@Nov1cegg]

​@@otoz-9775well... It's already seasoned so... Barbecue time

[@arcanealchemist3190]

@@otoz-9775 ive never met a chicken that was capable of regret or remorse, so i think its got a good shot at making it past that test

[@noob19087]

@@otoz-9775 A chicken's heart is pretty small, honestly.

[@bam.3767]

I would like to take a moment to announce that whoever made the mock-Ikea instructions for assembling a mummy is my favorite person today.

[@MrFlarespeed]

Was coming down here to say the same thing

[@dm3on]

it was not a person but machine, eg. ChatGPT!

[@yukiqt]

​@@dm3onno

[@MontyTheMothman]

@@dm3oni doubt it

[@orange8175]

terrible example, ChatGPT can't even do that. @@dm3on

[@asteroidrules]

By the sound of it what you tasted were various mixtures of tree oils, spices, incense, beeswax, and animal fat. So basically you ate scented candles.

[@qtea3.149]

Dear gosh-

[@PlayNowWorkLater]

Isn’t it fantastic that we have achieved an ability in current civilization that ideas like this can be pitched, planned and filmed without having to deal with conglomerate movie/tv companies. To think of younger generations not appreciating that content like this is available kind of blows my mind. Just wanted to say thank you for coming up with great ideas and following through to filming editing and releasing wacky content like this. It is awesome!

[@squigglefifi6125]

As a gen-Z(er?), I got halfway through this before feeling grateful that this high of quality video is free for me to watch on KZbin. Definitely one of the most interesting and impressive I’ve seen in a while.

[@eldritchcupcakes3195]

I can promise the younger generations are enjoying it

[@4nn4h]

I'm a zoomer and not to get defensive, but I can't tell you the number of times I've thought "I can't believe I'm getting this for free!" when watching an amazing video like this. You'll also find similar comments all over KZbin.

[@gurugurumawaru7869]

You know who's not appreciative of this quality content? KZbin and those old git advertisers with their inferior taste to educational videos.

[@X-SPONGED]

Ancient Egyptians: *_*mummifies their dead bodies and pets so when they return from the afterlife, they still have a body to inhabit*_* Random aristocrats from the victorian era: _"Finally some good fucking food..."_

[@HexaflexagonFan]

ikr, its so disrespectful tbh

[@GaiusCaligula234]

They didn't consider it food but a medicine, have you been paying attention son?

[@mikel2976]

​@@GaiusCaligula234it's a meme bruh 😂

[@GaiusCaligula234]

@@mikel2976 what meme

[@ghoulishgoober3122]

​@@GaiusCaligula234Gordon Ramsay says "finally, some good fucking food" after nothing but failed dishes from people on one of his shows.

[@haydenhigginbotham6551]

I can't help but feel happy for the chicken. I can definitely see why this would be a nice way to honor your loved ones after they die, regardless of the religious associations

[@diegoolivares1081]

Hoping little guy went to the field of reeds

[@RJiiFin]

@@diegoolivares1081Took a left turn at Albaquerque, wound up in the field of seeds

[@kuroiphox989]

​@@RJiiFinEh, I'm sure that's just as nice for the lovely hen.

[@ktk44man]

Thats what i was thinking lol. I had a realization at some point that this poor chicken might have had more care taken in its death than anyone gave it during life. Sad and also not sad because it really got the queen treatment in the end lol

[@K31TH3R]

Yeah considering the most notable acknowledgement for most chickens is whether or not one of them crossed a road, I'd say this chicken did pretty damned good for itself.

[@strxwbxrry_420]

I love learning about different cultures ways of putting the dead to rest. Your dads also super wholesome, I can feel his excitement radiating off the screen. He did such a magnificent job on it too. Edit: Not me watching this a week after the sales end…

[@thethoughtemporium]

The sale is still open, see the pinned comment!

[@komreed]

Probably after a few hundred or thousand years, the volatile chemicals that make the treatments taste so offensive would dissipate, leaving a much milder herbal/spice flavor perhaps reminiscent of a mild ricola cough drop. That’s my hypothesis, in part due to volatile chemicals in spirits making them taste offensive, and cooling them down calms the volatile chemicals and makes them go down easier. Also why you should let wine breath after opening it, for very strong volatile compounds it just probably takes centuries instead

[@BreakingTaps]

"To our health!" _drinks mummy embalming juice_

[@Owlmeatsandbeaks]

Hopefully went down easier than modern embalming fluid

[@thelordofthelostbraincells]

​@@Owlmeatsandbeaksisn't modern embalming fluid like 90/99% formaldehyde??? 💀💀💀

[@Owlmeatsandbeaks]

@@thelordofthelostbraincells extremely spicy yes

[@Idk_anymore_7664]

Real

[@ozz332]

the thought of thousands of years in the future, an archeologist finding this chicken mummy and studying it and not having any clue gives me joy

[@skittersspider1704]

It needs a label of non-authenticity so that this doesn't happen, but it would be absolutely hilarious to watch if you could live that long.

[@piranha031091]

He'll carbon date it, realize it's from the 21st century, and knows that's a good enough explanation for any weird shit he finds.

[@crm8769]

I love the idea of making things purely to confuse future archeologist.

[@beskamir5977]

I think the 3D printed amulets will be enough evidence that it's from our era. Either that or there will be papers written about the advanced manufacturing capabilities of ancient Egyptians gifted to them by the half animal/half human looking ancient aliens.

[@UnkownWonders]

​@@beskamir5977seeing how people think and work. The later is more likely

[@Yotam1703]

The footage of the brand new archaeological finds of the labeled embalming pots almost brought me to tears. I mean, how often when studying history do we find actual primary sources that are *labeled*?? My area is dress history but the same goes. Completely unrelated, by the shot at 21:34 of you applying the holy red face-embalming lotion to the chickens beak is just… priceless.

[@blissfuldj7627]

3 grown adult scientists at the very forefront of making not only crazy genetic experiments, growing hard to cultivate cells, and now making and ingesting millenia old recipes, but the most exciting thing for me is still the artificial chicken stock one, absolute god tier project

[@andrew-know]

Egyptian dude : "Damn i'm bored" Other egyptian dude : "Yeah, the afterlife is empty" Osiris : "same here" Anubis : "Well, imma quit" A singular chicken : Bonjour

[@aznperson8]

The chicken speaking French makes this 100% better

[@LinkMcStink]

Was I the only person expecting them to actually eat the chicken & not just the preservatives?

[@mihngu_]

​@@LinkMcStinkpreeeetty sure that they would have joined that chicken if they actually ate it

[@LinkMcStink]

@@mihngu_ I wouldn't think it'd be any deadlier than the actual embalming fluids they tasted. Besides, it'd serve em right for creating such a clickbaity thumbnail.

[@timtams_6]

@@LinkMcStink they mentioned it on the video that they were planning on eating it but they messed up in not changing the nitran and it didn't smell safe to eat.

[@Sam_Sam2]

Glad to see traditional Victorian recipes are being shared on KZbin.

[@DJl3iohazord]

I remember back in my day we had to go all the way to Egypt to source our organic mummies. One trip I caught malaria and had to go back home early.

[@gamingcat6034]

I, being a around 300-400 years old i can tell you for certain that i used some mummy in my food every now and then and still do today.

[@user-vi8vw8cw8f]

@@DJl3iohazordI can’t tell, is this satirical lol?

[@jlit3160]

Just be happy it’s not a life hack channel

[@lorizade]

​@@user-vi8vw8cw8fprobably not, perhaps speaking from early work experience or some sort as again the (two) documentation papers used in this video only go as early as 1997 (if i recall correctly).

[@bejaromero2523]

I honestly love how you did a year of research and dropped thousands of dollars to do a ‘taste react’ video. Hats off to all of you this is AMAZING

[@raghunandant2361]

3000 years later when someone actually finds it and actually thinks ' a chicken was actually made a pharaoh '😂

[@Idk_anymore_7664]

A chicken became a pharaoh??? In Canada??????

[@afeathereddinosaur]

Of course you didn't get haunted by any ancient curses, this mummy chicken is contemporary so you'd be haunted by a modern curse, maybe even a postmodern one.

[@phagnutpn1531]

Chicken ghost :))

[@aniksamiurrahman6365]

LOL 😂

[@ButtonMasherReal]

@@phagnutpn1531 Poultrygeist

[@miketesta2970]

They will be send to the chicken realm! 😂

[@magetsalive5162]

The chicken's spirit will dig up that really cringe thing they posted 15 years ago on the internet as part of its curse.

[@PabloZurita-yc3wz]

now you need to assemble a tomb for the chicken, and fill it with corn, grain, and a painting of the night sky (as they likely never got to see one in their lifetime)

[@lolasdm6959]

Remember to allow holes pointing to the north star so the soul of the chicken and leave and return to the body.

[@Juliprog]

Are you vegan, by any chance?

[@lolasdm6959]

@@Juliprog Chicken's soul will be judged by the scale of Osiris, and your soul will be too.

[@Juliprog]

@@lolasdm6959 umm no thanks. also, i meant that pablo guy but maybe you got that, idk

[@PabloZurita-yc3wz]

@@Juliprog nope, i was just joking about lying them to rest like a real pharaoh

[@rocacoshi]

Hi! I’m an archeologist and I’m here to teach everyone about the Chinchorro Mummies! They were a South American people who invented mummification, they had two types and they started out as a way for mothers to physically keep their babies after they passed from environment deaths, though you can find mummies of all ages. These people started mummification around 6-7 thousand years ago our dating the Egyptians by at least a thousand years. Mummification started in the dessert of Atacama in South America. Personally I’ve made one ex these mummies, for a personal university project. They’re incredible and just as tedious as your Egyptian mummies ñ, and were done with SO MUCH LESS than the Egyptians had, these people weren’t even settlers, they were still nomadic tribes.

[@extracrispycryptid6208]

That's fascinating! Thank you!

[@witchy-wonderland1416]

It’d be so interesting to see you do a contrasting video where you recreate the one you made “with little resources” 😁

[@vinny184]

They weren’t settlers? Or do you mean sedentary? BTW those South American indigenous people may have started mummifying the dead earlier but as they definitely weren’t in contact with the Egyptians, it’s still accurate to say that Egyptians independently invented mummification. No offense but are you actually an archeologist? because, and again no offense, you don’t sound like the archeologists I know.

[@vinny184]

The Chinchorro people weren’t nomadic, but lived a mostly sedentary lifestyle while still hunting and gathering. Also the oldest recovered mummies from that area were naturally mummified in the Atacama desert. And with the climate in that area being one of the driest in the world with lots of natural salt deposits, it seems that a body just would not have decomposed there. I also read that climate change is making the humidity higher and the mummies are right now starting to decompose at a fast rate. Which is just sad and would be huge loss for humanity. It also means that those mummies wouldn’t have survived this long in Egypt and both are very different processes with little similarities apart from both being dead, salted, dried and altered. The Egyptian mummification was more akin to embalming, which the Chinchorro mummification did nothing similar to because there was no need for such a thing with their dry climate .

[@Eternal_Odyssey]

@@vinny184​​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​​⁠​⁠I have to agree with you on this 100%. This person may be studying archaeology but I highly doubt they are an archaeologist. Incorrect facts, improper use of nomenclature… I just don’t believe it all. Besides the fact that the Chinchorro people never engaged in an artificial mummification process.. the bodies were wrapped in reeds and buried. The salt in the dry soil of the Atacama Desert helped preserve the bodies, but this was a result of where they were buried not due to embalming. Although buried a couple thousand years before the Egyptian mummies, nothing else is really relevant as the Egyptians took such measures to preserve because of the land, climate and heat. The Chinchorro mummies would not have lasted as long as the Egyptian mummies if buried with that same process in Egypt. I think it is in no way accurate, at all, to consider the Chinchorro people the originators of mummification.

[@malcolmdarke5299]

It's worth pointing out, for the purposes of "is it safe to eat a mummy", that making demiglace, which is a sauce and uses bone and flesh in its creation, apparently has a point where it smells like death. There is also a medieval cookbook that has a recipe for salted beef tongue that advises salting for "eight days or ten" and reckons they keep at least four years. With an absolutely fresh corpse (or, as you suggested, a side of beef), it's plausible that the result of your procedure could be safely edible hundreds or even thouands of years later, although it might need rehydration first. You really did go the whole hog in the process, though - the sarcophagus was a nice touch.

[@florianbeck4283]

Regarding the tasting in the end: keep in mind that all the most intense, volatile compounds from the resins, spices and essential oils would have evaporated during the thousands of years the actual mummies would have been around before being ground up and used as “medicine”. So the “mumia” probably wouldn’t have been all that aromatic anymore, but most likely very bitter, as resins tend to taste wry bitter.

[@arnaudmenard5114]

Do you think a stint in a vacuum chamber would hasten the evaporation of the volatiles?

[@ericlotze7724]

Accelerated Aging Tests would be neat!

[@dongvermine]

Incorrect

[@nathangamble125]

@@dongvermine Care to elaborate?

[@LordDragox412]

@@nathangamble125 No, they don't.

[@Adrian-fn9tw]

Osiris: "Finally, after decades! I welcome thee, mortal, to the afterlife-" Hen-Nefer: "Cluck?" Osiris: *Confused noises*

[@kadebrockhausen]

I was about to say "decades? Don't you mean millennia?" But then I remembered, yeah, late 90s human mummification experiment

[@TheLocalPot8to]

@@kadebrockhausen technically It didn’t have the book of the dead spells so it wouldn’t have passed the trials, but the chicken…

[@stealyoursupplies]

holy christ. this is the most devoted and committed and probably most significant project i have ever seen on youtube. i hope you get your money's worth on this.

[@leavemealonelmao6]

as an egyptian, i learned so much from this video and i highly appreciate how you followed the most accurate techniques out there

[@Zero-4793]

mans dedication is insane. planning to go to Egypt to translate the language himself so he can be sure that the method to create one ingredient of this procedure is correct.

[@AedanTheGrey]

That is how one respects an ancient history and their religious practices

[@derAtze]

I call it being autistic (Am one myself, hold your horses 😂) but this is one of those things where I'm like 'been there, done that'.. Went to Thailand just to taste Krating Daeng and to Naples to harvest local wild yeast for pizza dough

[@vidal9747]

This channel is purely uncontrollable hyperfocus. And I am all for it!

[@lechking941]

yep, but i rather give this channel millions then elon or the other shit wags. as it allows really fun stupid ideas to be done that also on the side get some lovly science done.

[@stephantual]

This video being demonetized is a slap in the face not just to the amazing people who clearly worked so hard on this, but to all creators who aspire to educate audiences. I'm going to get nebula just for that! 💯

[@Kloggermeister]

„-Before being dumped out and emptied, then once again carefully dried. As you might imagine, this is not a dignified part of this process, and one where it’s a little hard to keep one‘s composure. (10:26)“ The lads in the background: **LITERALLY HOWLING**

[@mayajade6198]

Just imagine, the true Egyptian afterlife hasn't had any new residents for millennia, and then, 2000 years later, completely out of nowhere, a single chicken just walks in because it's the first creature since before jesus to be properly mummified.

[@michaelfixedsys7463]

Wasn't there a guy in 1997 mentioned IN the video?

[@SlimothyJimothy]

PROPERLY mummified@@michaelfixedsys7463

[@stitchfinger7678]

@@michaelfixedsys7463 So... a single chicken, and Dave from Saskatoon.

[@jocax188723]

Can you imagine the face of Poor Dr Ikram when the boys asked her about her work? "Why do you want to know about animal mummies again?" "We wanna make and eat one." "...What?"

[@erinasnow]

Knowing many researchers, she'd probably be stoked.

[@melvinshaw7574]

​@@erinasnow"Now how did that make you feel? This is for science, so try to be thorough."

[@frecklefreak1467]

Years ago, I learned that Egyptian mummies are fairly easy to identify because they have a distinct taste in comparison to other mummies. Ever since then, I have been haunted by the question of what a mummy tastes like. I think this video was made for me. 😂 That being said, your reaction has only made me even MORE curious. I still desperately want someone to turn mummy materials into a popcorn seasoning or something so I can at least get an idea. Regardless, thank you all for your hard work and the sacrifice of your taste buds 😂

[@jennhernandz3912]

Your dad is a hell of a craftsman, and I would almost love love love more to see his videos on wood, carving talk him into a channel

[@rosalindcormier4384]

Same

[@tragedtyler]

Hi there! Embalmer here! I found this video extremely entertaining and satisfying. The Egyptians were the inventors of the embalming process (as far as we know) and we learn about this ancient process in Mortuary School. It was so satisfying to see someone actually take the time, money, and effort to recreate this process. Thank you for doing so! I'm also sending this to all of my mortuary pals so they can all nerd out with me.

[@K.Arashi]

i wonder if this video is going to be shown in mortuary schools from now on

[@tragedtyler]

​@@K.ArashiQuite possibly! I'm going to send it to my pals at my mortuary school too, but the industry is very conservative so they may edit it. I think this video was super fun!!

[@diegoolivares1081]

​@@tragedtylertoo many jokes about the dead chicken?

[@tragedtyler]

@diegoolivares1081 too much laughter and being happy. No one can have fun in funeral service! ~ this is sarcasm

[@rocacoshi]

Hey, archaeologists here! Egyptians did not invent mummification! It was the chinchorro communities in the Atacama Dessert of South America, they had two types of mummification and are up to a thousand years older than than their Egyptian counterparts, and are remarkable as all of their population specially babies are the ones mummified instead of the only pharaohs that the Egyptians started with.

[@Kazner0h]

Ridiculous to me that I just watched accomplished scientists make and eat glue, among other things. I love this channel.

[@abbeyv4148]

I know! I want to be their friend so bad.

[@AutismusPrime69]

Calm down

[@DesiderataSanctuary]

"How long do you want to dry age this chicken?" "Two thousand years!"

[@11er33.]

this chicken could have never expected such a dignified preparation, burial, and consumption. Truly the only chicken to have been so respectfully put to rest in thousands of years

[@DJl3iohazord]

Osiris is going to be confused after thousands of years of not seeing another mortal who passed away, a single chicken shows up.

[@ctusiard9755]

Nah, that chicken has a heart of lead.

[@rustkitty]

Good that you didn't end up eating Hen-Nefer. I mean if you did everything right and then desecrated a proper mummy full of authentic spells that would definitely unleash some curse.

[@shinybugg9156]

I wonder what curses a chicken pharoh would unleash on you.

[@tiahnarodriguez3809]

@@shinybugg9156 Probably make you act like chicken, like, clucking, growing little feathers, having a taste for corn and bugs, etc.

[@katzea.a7880]

@@shinybugg9156 The curse known as Salmonella Enterica by the modern civilization

[@IMortalNemesisI]

The sheer level accuracy and effort in this is incredible. Especially planning on going to an Egyptian temple just for the real recipe for Kyphi. Amazing.

[@dr.quackenbacker5247]

When I was in 7th grade, only about 12 years old, I did a school project on mummies and ancient Egypt. By having my Mom and I "mummify" a ken doll. We dyed guaze with tea, mixed cinnamon and cloves with tacky glue, painted, and then wrapped the body. The best part of it all was my Dad as well made a sarcophagus out of styrofoam. We called him Kenhotep, and I got the best grade out of my class. I still have him. I'm nearly thirty.

[@BreadBased]

What a great dad.

[@cryofsolace4840]

The idea that in order to get the proper recipe for your incense you'll have to actually physically go to Egypt and read the hieroglyphs yourself is amazing. What a fulfilling project.

[@ElectricRose9001]

There actually is an at least 2-3 decades old documentary of the British Museum attempting mummification on a terminal patient who agreed to do it for the cause...Imagine my rage in middle school that someone had gotten it done before me! 😂 My whole plan was I going to get mummified, and be displayed in a glass coffin, totally not fair.

[@Crazy_Diamond_75]

Even worse, a lot of people had already done it thousands of years before you! You really got beaten to the jump there.

[@qwaz67]

I believe you are referencing Bob Brier and Ronald Wade’s National Geographic special on it, they (weirdly) cite Bob Brier in this video but both misspelt his name and seem to have misinterpreted some of his papers on the subject regarding the use of some mummification tools (especially the obsidian blade, which has been known to not be a ceremonial item for quite some time now, given bronze doesn’t cut as well) Edit: grammar, shortened sentence for efficacy.

[@dalithecat]

I am at the beginning of the video, but I came here wondering why they didn’t mention this work. I love Bob Brier!

[@Dilfenshmirtz]

I absolutely love how happy your dad seems to be able to be a part of things. You guys have a great relationship!!

[@BenanaBoy]

It's insane to me that this video is 6 months old n barely has a million views. How is this not one of the coolest things on youtube!?!?!

[@anirudh5320]

Now I want NielRed to taste them because he is known for being able to resist stinky and shit tasting stuff

[@fionafiona1146]

Maybe a further atemt

[@conrad2939]

You ought to ship some off to max miller, I'm sure there's some Victorian recipe he's been dying to try but couldn't source genuine mummy lol

[@Yenrabbit]

This time, on tasting history... Now that would be a great crossover 😂

[@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933]

Now that's an interesting video. An episode on Victorian quack medicine and cure-alls

[@Evenape]

Agreed 🎉😊

[@smoothmidnightfudge7450]

The amount of care and effort that went into answering this “stupid” question is fucking awe inspiring. I clicked on this video, not having heard of your channel, expecting a good laugh, like oh haha they’re going to bury a chicken and eat a piece 30 days later. Did not REMOTELY anticipate the level of research you’ve done. The attention to accurate replication, all of the historical context…Instant sub. Absolutely love this.

[@rmt3589]

This is so much more detailed than the method I have written up. I will deffinately use this to help expand on my own method when I mummify something. (Rat/raccoon/opossum/bizzard/vulture are the creatures I'm looking out for. It's for paint/ink)

[@maxwellgarner3445]

Its no less accurate than early mummification was (they were busy inventing it so they get grandfathered in, accuracy-wise for the process and spells) so I believe this bird has actually been sent, correctly, to meet the Maat.

[@Someone-sq8im]

They don’t get a pass. Anubis won’t like it

[@IrKeNoVa]

@@Someone-sq8im Anubis may not like it, but that doesn't change the fact that Hen-Nefr is, indeed, there before Maat.

[@Jdbye]

The mummy resin that was used in those tinctures would've been thousands of years old, so it probably would've lost a lot of the scent and taste over those years. What you tried probably tasted a whole lot worse than the real thing just because of how overpowering the fresh stuff is. So probably not an entirely accurate taste test, but definitely an entertaining one.

[@PsychoKat90]

Exactly what I was thinking. It probably mellowed out a lot after thousands of years.

[@TheCompleteMental]

What about the mass spectrometer? I dont assume they tasted or smelled the mummy, intentionally. The radicals mightve broken down over time, though.

[@crowdemon_archives]

I wonder if you can cook them or even vacuum them first to get something closer to the real deal.

[@maidenofmoths]

As a polytheist, i appreciate the level of detail and care you put into this

[@christineg8151]

As a chemist and archaeology nerd, I just want to say how much I love this! A wonderful example of experimental archaeology.

[@-_-november16]

this is kinda wholesome tho isnt it ?imagine youre just a chicken and you die undignified deaths like most other chickens in a factory but then some dude comes along and gives you this whole proper burial that they used for people thousands of years ago :((

[@bellenesatan]

*So he can taste your mummified flesh

[@iamjustkiwi]

Tbh I wish people had this kind of reverence for the meat they ate. We would take it way less for granted and imo we should really care for and about the things that give their lives to sustain us. I say that as someone who raises sheep chickens and ducks for meat and it really makes you think differently about your food.

[@kyetes.866]

Minor point but I am SO STOKED you decided to go with actual papyrus and somehow got it from one of the only remaining papyrus makers. I’d seen a video about them (from BusinessInsider?) and was wondering if it was possible to buy their papyrus online for art & support them directly.

[@randomsomeguy156]

Try sending them an email?

[@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933]

Man I would love to buy them in bulk and make some calligraphies in them. It's sad that this ancient art is so close to extinction

[@SombreroPharoah]

Is there anywhere who can teach us how to make it? That's an art that needs preserving

[@kyetes.866]

@@SombreroPharoah Yeah check out the Papyrus Institute near Giza they have workshops

[@rezandrarizkyirianto-1933]

@@SombreroPharoah Well do you happen to have papyrus growing around?

[@therealspeedwagon1451]

I honestly believe mummies taste like beef jerky. It seems like it’s some hardcore smokeless preservation process that makes jerky that can last for millennia.

[@Cooe.]

It's not smokeless. They are burning incense inside the mummification chamber literally the entire time.

[@deathstarskeetshooter8418]

Even with everything they said at the end… i still wanna know what the chicken would’ve tasted like. I mean taking a shot of watered down barbecue sauce wouldn’t be pleasant but that shits great on food.

[@c.b.m.a1671]

Props to them for mummifying a real person and then eating them

[@I_am_sam_I_am]

get the f**k out of my lecturing hall, Diogenes (:

[@The.Heart.Unceasing]

yeah I didn't think the morgue would let them just take a corpse, but apparently I was wrong

[@sammyjones8279]

Ikr?? I don't even know where they found such a small feathered human... Must have gone to somewhere exotic like Canada or something!

[@bobatesomemayo]

According to Diogenes, it is a human

[@The.Heart.Unceasing]

@@sammyjones8279 you know what they say about featherless bipeds...

[@nunyabiznis3595]

I just loooooove the idea of a random chicken popping up in Osiris' throne room many thousands of years after the last new arrival.

[@commandershepard572]

This is genuinely one of the coolest videos I’ve ever seen on KZbin. Incredible work.

[@spammusubi1607]

Y’alls dedication is INSANE, like the sheer amount of detail and going the extra mile

[@janronschke7525]

Me clicking thinking you guys made chemicly correct mummy from those super expensive base components that are avalable for nutritional science and recreated the chemical made up of a human mummy. This is even cooler.

[@quadrilaturalSamurai]

I wouldn't put that past NileRed though...

[@dancoroian1]

How are you referencing this "nutritional chemical mummification" as if it's common knowledge? Umm, details, wtf?

[@hawkerm8419]

​@@dancoroian1They're referencing the process that TE used to make chicken flavoring

[@dancoroian1]

@@hawkerm8419 oh. Duh, that makes a lot more sense 😆

[@ExploringNew1]

​@@quadrilaturalSamurainile red: I made a mummy using iron nails

[@Idalb0e]

Imagine being the Egyptian gods, nobody comes through the Hall of Maat in millenia, and then suddenly a random chicken shows up

[@K.Arashi]

i imagine, since it's been millenia, they've repurposed it to something else. like, say, a hospital. and then suddenly comes this chicken with max level defense spells. creating chaos. a chicken loose in the hospital. and no one can catch it

[@VinhNguyen-wh8js]

​@@K.ArashiKane sibling reference?

[@K.Arashi]

@@VinhNguyen-wh8js more of a john mulaney reference

[@VinhNguyen-wh8js]

@@K.Arashi ah. I get it now

[@abbeyv4148]

This was the most well done, well researched, and engrossing video I have watched in a long time! Just incredible.

[@CashFlowTV554]

What incredible attention to detail. I love all the jars and accessories you guys made. And the hieroglyphs look beautiful

[@linkster5564]

Imagine showing this to the ancient Egyptian embalmers. I can picture ancient uncle Ramesses going "oh he fucked up, you were supposed to presoak bandages. Juniper oil? Who use juniper oil? This poor chicken soul going to be eaten by Ammit."

[@KillianTwew]

If smells were evil, and the drying agent absorbs all the moisture and smell from the body, I wonder if they saw rotting as evil persisting in the body after death, and this as a method to remove evil.

[@gecc7774]

"i can't believe they did this for 700 years before they realized it was bad" they DIDNT! they RAN OUT

[@prestonmiller1198]

This is possibly the highest quality video I have ever seen. Outstanding work with all the research that went into this. I wish you could know just how amazed I am of you all!

[@MajoraZ]

I do stuff with Mesoamerican (Aztec, Maya, etc) history and archeology online, consulting for channels, etc. This isn't that area, but the dedication to using the actual historical practices here and not cutting corners is so impressive! If you ever wanna do anything like this with Mesoamerica, I'd love to help out.

[@MemeMan42069]

Imagine the ancient Egyptians got it right and the gods were like "darn no one has done it right in a really long time." Then a chicken just shows up done right.

[@thechieftain21]

This is excellent work and dedication! All credit to you chaps, inspirational!

[@yessybaeza6716]

Saw this video get posted on tik tok and I came because I wanted to support your page directly and yall seem like great people and creators. Definitely staying on this channel

[@SariennMusic73]

Your dedication goes far past "above and beyond". I perked up about the incense you made - then my jaw dropped when you said you're gonna up and fly to Egypt just to get the actual recipe from the actual ancient heiroglyphs. Dude..... You don't just get a sub from me. You get my deepest respect, awe and appreciation. ❤

[@AedanTheGrey]

As a neopagan interested in kemetic belief, the effort and respect involved in this project was stunning to see. Most people don't really care about respecting ancient traditions.

[@EeveeFromAlmia]

Imaging doing this for a living and then finding out that 3 thousand years later people are doing mummification as a bit. That’s incredible I love humans.

[@cosmosyn2514]

the professionals would probably think its amazing that people thousands of years in the future would be partaking in their craft and culture even if its for a bit

[@defenestrated23]

This isn't *just* a bit. This is actual experimental archaeology and they are writing a paper on it.

[@CamStLouis]

Microdosing funerary rites is the only way I can afford a burial lol

[@Gramoler]

Your dad is incredible. that sarcophagus looks brilliant. tell him that it made me happy

[@MyDadSaid]

Thank you. 😊

[@user-tk3ou5ru1n]

Your dedication to doing this is genuinley amazing. I wasn't subscribed before but you're damn right I'm subscribed now

[@ame7165]

haha your dad's sarcophagus is epic, and he looked overjoyed to be able to contribute 😂. epic video and excellent work as always

[@samk2407]

Resin linen bird composite is a new meta-material with super conducting properties

[@colmryan9289]

No but imagine if mummies were superconductors - it’d be like the Victorian era all over again

[@q3st1on19]

It's the room temperature superconductor we've all been waiting for

[@feuerling]

@@colmryan9289 They'd be so mad at the victorians for eating them all

[@amelka_sto_]

As a history student aspiring to be an egyptologist I am absolutely amazed by this video, absolutely unmatched to watch it in the middle of the night

[@fuzzheadwriter]

this was a fantastic plethora of information on mummification and mumia that i have been looking for quite a while.

[@keroloswasseforjustkero4680]

As an Egyptian am shocked and so freaking proud, can't thank you enough, great job keep it up ❤❤❤

[@fearfully3496]

This is mindblowing, the fact that this is free and anyone can access this. I truly believe this video is one of the best examples of " the world in the palm of your hands ".

[@GothyCakesofficial]

I really hope all this research and project makes it into the museums its truly amazing work even if it was for a video hats off to you guys

[@danbrit9848]

mad respect for not half assing it ...and doing it as an honest exparement but done as accurate as possible

[@michaelboehme7964]

I told my printmaker girlfriend about the screen printed instructions and she complained about the historical accuracy of screen printing. She says you should have done a wood block print

[@SerigrapheBourgeoise]

Historically, she might be right, but technically... it would have taken so much time to carve that the selling price wouldn't have made any sense ;) Gotta stay practical there! (I am the printer and also experienced in woodblock).

[@noi_10.916]

I'm afraid neither woodblock or screen print was available in ancient Egypt. Sumerian's did have rollin seals but they were for clay tablets if I remember correctly.

[@arifhossain9751]

His dad could make wood blocks for it, but its gonna take a year to get all the glyphs done. Especially the custom chicken glyphs.

[@shiftednrifted]

​@@SerigrapheBourgeoisey'all never heard of a cnc mill?

[@cr34t_]

It's really nice of you guys to help this chicken pass in to the afterlife.

[@BasedBidoof]

The amount of effort in this is insane, I love it.

[@gabelaws6015]

I thought this was a new video and I was gunna buy one of those mummy instruction screen prints but then I realized it came out 4 months ago. :( This video is awesome. Thanks for your hard work!

[@thethoughtemporium]

More will be available soon! Check back in a bit

[@rafaelcruzs2]

This process made chemistry look much more like real alchemy

[@AppliedScience]

I've had my eye out for this video since we talked about it over the summer. Really quite an amazing research and implementation journey! Do you know why the curing mixture is mostly carbonate? Seems like plain salt would do very well to remove water like making jerky?

[@thethoughtemporium]

Natron just naturally is those salts in that ratio, I don't think it was purposeful beyond that. BUT a trick from cooking is that if you want to dry skin out you use baking soda. Carbonates work better to pull water out without turning into sludge. They tend to just cake. Pure salt tends to turn to mush so you don't actually dry things properly you just pickle them. But I'm sure if you used enough pure salt would work fine.

[@toseltreps1101]

The water content of the Sodium carbonate is obviously of paramount importance here. It would seem most likely that the monohydrate was used, which is neither very good at taking up water nor at releasing it into dry air. In order to make this work with minimized death stink from basic protein hydrolysis, the anhydrous form would have to be used in a suitably dry environment.

[@defenestrated23]

​​​@@thethoughtemporiumI think it's a happy coincidence that Natron is mostly basic NaCO3, and bases promote the Maillard reaction. Formaldehyde chemical fixation works in large part by turning amines into Schiff bases. Most essential oils are high in reactive phenols and catechols, just like wood smoke. Low molecular weight amines like trimethylamine and putrescine make up the bulk of death stank, and the treatment sequesters these side chains before they volatilize. The darkening strongly suggests that the treatment is chemically cooking the proteins, browning them forming complex high MW chemicals (that also smell amazing). it's literally analogous to smoking. Tl;dr - mummy actually is chemically very close to jerky

[@kristelbrok998]

​@@thethoughtemporiumcan confirm, when i worked with sheep-skins, we'd have to buy a specific salt, and reapply every once in a while to avoid the salt becoming too wet/mushy and spoiling the skins 😅😬

[@trash2638]

this was a really fun video!! im honestly surprised by how much work you guys have put into this. well done!