THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES #64 - Burial Rites

[@MrJack8700]

“I hate how people call us grave robbers. We don’t even always go to graves. Anyways let me tell you about this grave I was robbing.”

[@TheNitpickChick]

It’s kind of like “Don’t call us grave robbers! That’s rude! We don’t _only_ rob graves!” lol

[@-haclong2366]

To be fair, they buried a person because they wouldn't die, sounds more like a prison than a grave.

[@RelativelyBest]

The part about the tomb not bearing any name is actually kinda important. The ancient Egyptians believed that a person's name was one of their souls, or a key component of the soul, forming the basis of their identity. So, they took inscriptions of names very seriously, and trying to erase someone's name was a very aggressive thing to do.

[@TheJuliana0901]

oh damn! hey, since you know a bit about Egypt, is it true that they aren't as obsessed with death as we think, we only have that impression because all that's survived are the tombs?

[@RelativelyBest]

​@@TheJuliana0901 To be honest I'm not too versed in the subject - I mainly knew about the name thing since the ancient Egyptian concept of "the name as the identity aspect of the soul" just happened to closely parallel something I was working on in my own writing. That said, from what I can tell the ancient Egyptians at least seem to have been fairly concerned with what happens to a person upon their death in the sense that their funeral rituals were extremely elaborate. They believed that the deceased would be judged for their conduct in life, but _also_ viewed death as the start of a journey or quest of sort. The living actually had a certain duty to assist the dead in that regard via said rituals, meaning that once you died you had to rely on those surviving you to some degree. Notably they were one of the few cultures to believe that the physical body was still quite important once you'd died, hence the mummifications. Over-all, there were a lot of different factors influencing what fate awaited you once you passed on. Still, it's hard to tell. _Most_ historical cultures have had very specific ideas about death and the afterlife, after all. I don't know if "obsessed" is the right word here - more like the Egyptians had a rather complex belief system when it came to death. Or at least their religion did. Anyway, I'm not an Egyptologist or whatever, so take all of this with a grain of salt. Like you said, most of what we have to go by are the tombs and hieroglyphs they left behind, so who knows what is actually "true"?

[@TheJuliana0901]

Fervidor that's so interesting!! thanks for taking the time to write this

[@nalinmalhotra3319]

@@RelativelyBest I have read that the Egyptian art deliberately tried to show all aspects of the body because when you die your body would be as per your painting that's why you see them sideways yet can still see both hand and legs etc

[@fluffsnake]

that's so sad :(

[@lynnclaywood4043]

"You and me? We suck at this spy thing" yeah sorry Jon but its true

[@TheVastUnknown619]

The mummy mustve have "won" a dice game with Death just like that one dude from s1 ep 29 cheating death

[@alessiamarrocco3262]

Alexiel I didn’t even consider that. Good point. It would explain why the only thing in there were dice.

[@CrazyTimeTraveler]

Wow I didn't even think about that, nice!

[@sumitrana2420]

Worse part is he never wanted to be immortal Why would he win? Or why play?

[@TheVastUnknown619]

@@sumitrana2420 because just like in the other ep Death comes to those who are going to die dude didnt want to die so he cheated not knowing it meant he will replace Death and be immortal basically there's really no winning against death

[@sumitrana2420]

What if He just won the game fair and square and had to do it. But the worse of the comedy would be to know that death actually won't let you go even at losing as the famous sort of old joke goes for Heads I win Tails you lose

[@AnanasVert]

Well this started as "ah yes, the mandatory mummy episode" and turned to horrible and sad real quick. Very nice twist.

[@diegonunez3492]

I don't remember if I was inspired by this episode, but I had something like this ep In my dnd campaign, where a small group of skeletons approached the group and simply prostrated themselves hands up, asking to be killed, to be allowed rest. It was a rather nice moment if I say so my self

[@apollyoniguess]

So idk if this makes sense or not, but this guy could've been someone who won a game against death, like the soldier from cheating death, and eventually became immortal, but when other people found out he couldn't die and cuz apparently dying was sacred to them, they just mummified him alive

[@gingergamer8204]

that would explain the dice, too- all that was in the tomb was the body and the dice to play a game against death

[@juliankohler5086]

Total sense. It's even implied by Jon in the end.

[@baintreachas]

I feel like he might’ve let himself be mummified in an effort to finally die, or something

[@StormSnakeMG]

So the nameless mummy played a game against death (the dice), won, but b/c he didn't accept his death & broke the most sacred event to their people, he was put through the mummification process while he was still alive and stripped of his name, akin to stripping him of his soul. The wrapping was bound super tight, like a straight jacket, to make sure he couldn't escape while his organs were being liquefied. And he stayed like that, in constant pain, for millennia. And even when he broke free and tried to kill himself with a knife, even that didn't work. He tried to cry, b/c he knew he would be like this for eternity, but he couldn't even do that anymore. *Holy fuck*

[@juliankohler5086]

What shocks me is that none of those immoral crooks died! The worse that happened is that now the lady is a horrible teacher. Worst episode so far. They could at least have caught something. A disease. Maybe the scarab equivalent of whatever the hive that possessed Ms. Prentiss is.

[@TIGGYQUE]

Donna should have done something. Can fire do something to those immortal dude? I think this fate is awfully, unbearably cruel. Like, the Egyptian did won against Death, but this... this was entirely humans that put him through that. And then those assholes did nothing, just escaped, leaving a person suffering alone in the dark. Like, yeah, an alive mummy, spooky, but they OBVIOUSLY weren't malicious, they were SUFFERING I think it's the most awful episode. Death is death, even if it's the monster that eats you. But this... this is too much

[@TIGGYQUE]

@@juliankohler5086 the worst in that episode were hateful people deciding to "punish" a person for an eternity of suffering, and those people were perfectly human. I guess it makes sense. A human is still the most awful creature.

[@thestranger4894]

Hopefully the Darkness finds itself in Egypt and finally give him a good night rest.

[@zGabaz]

Same man. This is the episode which completely broke me

[@a.frisch4735]

While listening to this my cat brushed against my leg and my heart damn near stopped

[@nialls.9939]

was it running away from a spider?

[@firecat68_69]

is his name Major Tom?

[@nialls.9939]

@@firecat68_69 do you mean the admiral?

[@ollieri]

same with my dog lmao

[@stitchthelilo]

does your house have a spider infestation by any chance?

[@dionysusxian]

the pillar man theme grows louder and more macabre as you run through the alleys of the twisting city before it corners you: “The magnus archives is a fictional podcast distributed by rusty quill” it says as it strangles you, you lose consciousness and slowly die

[@yashaswini4992]

ayeyayaeyayeyayeyaaaaaaaaaa🎶

[@gusticeTwo]

i think losing consciousness before dying is more mercy than would be granted to you in this situation

[@Record_Scratch]

oh man, this was really sad. i wonder if they will ever get peace or are they going to stay there forever, stabbing themself with that knife over and over again? makes me wonder if that poor woman is still wandering around in those distorted corridors or if that boy is still falling into the endless sky. the concept of eternity is truly terrifying.

[@lynnclaywood4043]

if it helps im pretty sure both the poor woman and the boy were eaten in the end and the supposed eternal limbo was just the predatory presence playing with them like a housecat or a killer whale

[@Record_Scratch]

@@lynnclaywood4043 i'm all caught up now and let me tell you, you've got quite an amazing story waiting for you.

[@rileymichael2694]

I think we may find out what happened to Helen later in the story...not sure about the boy though.

[@georgemakeev425]

Eternity is only bad if it is eternity of bad stuff. Like boredom, fear, pain and all that jazz. An eternity of endorphin euphoria, on the other hand, sounds actually pretty swell

[@Kobrag90]

@@lynnclaywood4043 He did mention his stomach when describing the corridors.

[@kelseykagamine04]

I just started listening, but :D! Archaeology! I'm an archaeology major! That is depressingly true about jobs being scarce tho

[@kelseykagamine04]

Poor mummy. Was probably once one of the immortal reaper people. Jon and Basira do suck at being spys

[@ragefury1817]

Is the illegal past true too?

[@germanerd6148]

The true horror in this story

[@Catglittercrafts]

Same thing in Anthropology. I’m working a minimum wage job at an animal hotel even though I have a masters degree 😿

[@lonewaffle231]

So how did your major go? You doing some ilegal grave robbing?

[@jaderush4141]

I feel like the supplement gives us a pretty good idea of how the whole Daisy sitch came around. Basira just failed epically in keeping their arrangement with Jon a secret and had to come up with a hasty explanation on why the heck she was feeding tapes to his ever enhancing paranoia. There's no way she talks like that to people she's suspected of murder once.

[@lilaboxx]

Interesting theory, that makes sense. Maybe she actually understands jon being scared because the former archivist died under mysterious circumstances and he fears for his own life ect. And probably she das seen too much to not know there is something bigger going on, idk

[@nastiatonkaia]

Basira and Jon are quite alike in sucking in spying, she admitted it herself. It's unhelpful, but also really funny:)

[@toastghost9145]

That was just rather sad.

[@cawareyoudoin7379]

Yes, rather. Clearly it was the same sort of person as in the soldier and the death story, and they didn't want to repeat the cycle- they really wanted to die. And they buried them in a maze. Sad indeed.

[@germynon7911]

Somebody hug the poor thing ;-;

[@ann-margretparke9525]

You first!

[@germynon7911]

Gladly

[@camiart_casual]

Presumably before stabbing it repeatedly

[@macabrecitrus2127]

Hug then set them on fire

[@nastiatonkaia]

Unfortunately, I'm pretty sure they don't possess nerves to feel being hugged :( Though that brings the question of their pretty good orientation. How did they know that the characters were where they were? Did they hear shouting?

[@eMe_peridot_hare]

Now I'm just sad and pissed... All they needed was a lighter, or to get a spark going with that pistol, and the mummy would've gotten what they wanted...Fire generally solves things, from what we've seen so far. But then again, none of these stories get much resolution, good or bad, so I'm not too surprised :/

[@christopherbruderle684]

The mummy was one of the "deaths" going around like that guy from the US civil war, I don't exactly think fire solves their particular issue.

[@TenjoTengeCT]

@@christopherbruderle684 If thats the case its even saddder, they managed to scape from death and be 'human' again just to be mummified alive and locked inside a thomb forever :c

[@christopherbruderle684]

@@TenjoTengeCT Not necessarily. The death from the civil war took on the contemporary image of death at the time, it is possible that this guy just took on the Egyptians image of death.

[@winterwolf211]

@@TenjoTengeCT It probably won a dice game against death and now couldn't die. I saw one of those videos that asked, what is it like to be immortal? And showed how you'll still be alone and alive as the sun burns out and the universe collapses in millions and millions of years. Very terrifying, to be robbed of the comfort of death is very scary.

[@saucevc8353]

Then they'd just be a sentient pile of ash... even worse.

[@TheJuliana0901]

if they really did manage to make it look like no one had gone in there or discovered it in the first place, I wonder if the Egyptian authorities did the same. went there, left it alone, and denied access to the American university.

[@tearez13]

That, or they had heard legends, and they knew what was there...

[@CamilleChauTempsDesCerises]

Late to the party but the geologist of the team said the door had not been open prior to them

[@cylyte2436]

That woman felt a surprising amount of empathy for what at first to her seemed a creature intending her harm. I wonder if that mummy is the result of the ancient Egyptians finding one of those people who played a game with death and emerged “immortal” after being a reaper.

[@TIGGYQUE]

I think she was a coward. I don't know what I would do being in her shoes but the person was clearly suffering and she just. Closed the tomb! Left them down there! Nice! Suffer some more! I think they should have tried burning them.

[@sunken.cities]

poor thing. they probably made a deal with death and just wanted to pass on :((

[@Speckaboo]

So I’m guessing the mummy won against Death and became one of the new deaths, but since Egyptians emphasized the idea of the afterlife, they found out about the reaper and they slowly and painfully liquified their organs and mummified it while it wasnt dead, leaving their name out possibly due to them having disgraced Egyptian belief in the afterlife. After all, if it wasn’t truly dead, then it didn’t deserve to be remembered.

[@Kassabonn]

Yeah, just like she said in the statement "I cant imagine what they would do to someone who cant die" I feel like this is the most logical explaination

[@TIGGYQUE]

What an irony that perfectly human humans put the still human human with a lil bit of supernatural abilities through hell

[@GarethOfByzantium]

Worse, it won against Death, AND lost to someone else and got its flesh back, only for this to happen.

[@mere5168]

Anytime a character enters a tunnel or a hallway in this podcast jdkskdklask hair on end bad shits coming baby!!!!

[@mysharona9097]

I'm doing a repeat of the series, and halfway through this ep I realised this is one of the rare ones I don't want to finish. Not just scary but there is an eternal, aching sadness in this one that you don't get in many other parts of TMA.

[@winterwolf211]

Very sad. Death is a comforting embrace that this mummy will never experience. I'm sure he would have been at a better state of mind if the Egyptians didn't decide to melt his organs and bury him there for thousands of years.

[@manamisenda2422]

I was so terrified and suddenly I was just really sad for the poor immortal thing

[@MarktheCrawler]

Jon's reaction to this document made me happy he's back to his old self

[@TransilvanianHunger1334]

So this an immortal dude again, like we saw in Bassira's statement. I think these immortals originate the same way- as it was explained in the Cheating Death episode.

[@anyoom9031]

wait what immortal dude from basira's statement?

[@TransilvanianHunger1334]

@@anyoom9031 Has been a while since I listened to it, but I vaguely remember her walking into a dude's room who had blasted his brain's out, but was still alive and moving

[@-S.L.]

@@anyoom9031 I think it's a spoiler .o.

[@auran5]

This place is not a place of honour. This is what came to mind when she mentioned that the place was bare with no ornamentation as one of the suggestions was to turn curious people back with complete boredom.

[@happylittlephanny9643]

Am I the only one that can't get over the fact that they were robbing a tomb, and stealing and planning to sell a mummy? Maybe it's because I'm from Egypt, but this episode makes me really angry. The Egyptian government said no!! them and anyone else had no right to try to profit from ancient Egyptian tombs like so many other British thieves smh. Poor mummy tho that was sad.

[@raebaer8580]

yeah I agree, I think this episode is meant to draw attention to the theft of artifacts and history that belongs to people of color, often by British people. (cough cough the entirety of the british museum) Not only past thefts, but the archeological robbery that’s occurring in modern day too. Idk as someone with a ba in history I like that tma was bringing attention to it. Also I love your pfp btw!!

[@happylittlephanny9643]

@@raebaer8580 thank you!! good omens makes me very soft :)))

[@midnights2631]

I got pissed too, I love history and mummies are so interesting but I'm not interested in selling them to a collector.

[@ravena8408]

Egyptian too, I definitely feel your rage.

[@roguewave5187]

british try not to steal other cultures architecture and traditional items and possessions challenge (impossible)

[@roseclearwater9904]

As soon as they said there was bone dice lying on the floor I was like, “huh, that sounds like the games death would have lol probs not important to this ancient Egyptian mummy story!” Ooooh boy how I was both right & wrong 😬

[@townfowlart2507]

Listening to this with my sibling (who is studying to be an anthropologist at the moment) has been very fun. They have. VERY strong opinions on the person in this statement (none of which are good). Excellently written! We’re only half way through the episode and I already have chills!

[@vucetic1815]

listening to this episode as i stare at the pile of archeology papers i have to learn and 8 days before we go to fieldwork again is something else.

[@SurrealRandomThings]

How did it go? You still doing archeology stuff three years into the future?

[@vucetic1815]

@@SurrealRandomThings wow hi! i got a degree lmaoo i am doing art history now aka finishing it cause i got a masters to write and then i am done shshsh

[@SurrealRandomThings]

@@vucetic1815 That's so cool, happy for you!

[@OvergrownFangirl]

okay but is no one going to mention that they called the two muscle men Barry and Paul like the fucking chuckle brothers???

[@-S.L.]

I NOTICED THAT TOO!!

[@V3xxe]

_while shoveling:_ "To me." "To you."

The worst part of this story, the true horror, is all those kids that will be doomed to have classes with Ms Gwynne as a teacher. She sounds awful in every way possible.

[@Riptide-re5sr]

Esp since she said she hates kids 💀 like girl nah just spare them from the knowledge of your existence

[@beheadedbat4925]

This is my favorite one so far! It even brings back the dice thing

[@monomonito929]

yess also my fav so far

[@CamilleChauTempsDesCerises]

In the museum I'm working at, there's a mummy. When I greeted them this morning, I couldn't but ask them whether they were an immortal, mummified alive. They didn't answer. I hope they're ok.

[@lilalino]

lmao underrated comment also does this mean you great your mummy every morning?

[@CamilleChauTempsDesCerises]

@lilalino Yes, I do ! They're pretty lonely in their room, so I think they appreciate some recognition

[@aristaello]

Barry and Paul, the chuckle brothers, thank you for this gem

[@macabrecitrus2127]

Damn, the colonial and greedy mindset of that "rogue" archeologist. And here I am feeling sad for a mummy... they should have burned them or something, they weren't a threat :'(

[@aprr5393]

This "archeologist" is one of the least sympathetic narrators we've had so far. She seriously just says "i don't care about ethics" and then ransacked a sacred tomb

[@TIGGYQUE]

@@aprr5393 and buried a person back in their tomb to suffer

[@plutoandpolaris]

A surprising lot of narrators in TMA are just terrible people It leaves a weird taste in your mouth at the end, because you’re glad they surprised, but like Did they deserve to? Lots of fun food for thought in that question and any media that leaves me something to think about is aces in my book

[@coreacartoonist]

Reminds me of that guy who tried to shoot himself in the head multiple times

[@carpiioo.806]

The incredibly nerdy Egyptologist in-between the descriptions are just so funny I love it

[@Companion92]

I feel so bad for the mummy

[@wynnt1]

THIS! THIS IS HOW THE MUMMY SERIES SHOULD HAVE BEEN!

[@evagrev7351]

My theory from this episode and what we know until now: Those entities have been active probably for centuries, and we see now an example of that. I believe than a person in ancient Egypt was close to dying when visited by Death entity, and challenged it to a game of dice. The person won, and so they became Death. After who knows how much time, the person as Death lost and became human again but with immortality. Ancient Egypt is very serious about the afterlife, so when they found someone who couldn't die and, very likely couldn't age either, they might have had things done to him. Once they decided to get rid of that person, they made a small tomb in the middle of the dessert, where hopefully noone would find it there, from what I understand they had the tomb/pyramid to be fully inside the earth from the start, made it as a labyrinth from the room towards the exit so that it wouldn't be easy for what was inside to find the exit, and had nothing written both inside and out besides the infinity symbol above, to show that this is a tomb for the undead. Then, mummified the person, tied it in a way that, as I understand it, is the same with those white jackets with the sleeves that go in the back, probably to strip the mummy from much movement, and put the person inside the sarcophagus. The dice that were left there were probably once of the person now mummified, might even be the same dice they used to defeat Death all those years ago, and were the only posession of that person. Maybe the ones who buried them left the dice there, as in to bury anything that had to do with them with them, or they were left by someone that knew them before they were mummified.

[@BackToBrazil]

if i figured out my work partners were already planning on closing a tomb i was still in I would be so fricken angry

[@pyrosianheir]

Man, that would be AWFUL to be that mummy... As soon as it was mentioned that it was labyrinthian trying to get out, I knew they were going to find something like that. I will say that I'm a little surprised that whoever put them in there, knowing that they weren't dead yet, wouldn't have encased them in something more than just a wooden box. Stone would've been harder to prepare, sure, but like.... Once it's in the wooden one, prep a stone one, drop it in and move along. Of course, that would require a degree of chill about the situation, and I can't say I'd blame them for having none... Also, yeah, John is bad at spy games, as evidenced by being caught so much that he got an intervention about it. XD

[@ironbarsjack7977]

Everybody saying they sad for the thing but like what if it was put there like that for a reason

[@Companion92]

Still horrible. Nobody should have to suffer like this.

[@MyAnanin]

Then it would have eaten them i think...

[@Companion92]

I think maybe it was someone who was the reaper for a time, like in that story with the soldier, and became an immortal human afterwards. People noticed it I guess and than did this to him.

[@Rolan7196]

@@Companion92 I didn't get that at first, but I think you're right. That's why the tomb is remarkably unmarked. And her closing statement, that she could guess what the Egyptians would have done to someone who couldn't die.

[@dawhandaonli5925]

@Rolan7 Plus the dice

[@frostpersonal3758]

"We suck at this spy thing" yeah no kidding

[@eclipsicalbluestocking1182]

"Freeform archeology" is a fun term for "grave robbing"

[@hannahtrammell9423]

People who say teaching is a backup career do deserve what they get, John. I'm with you 😂

[@jellifygirl]

This is the first one of these that made me go full "WAIT, HOLY SHIT-" after the episode ended

[@InsidiousClouds]

I've listened to this episode dozens of times by now, and as I've come to the same conclusion everyone else has, that this is a poor fool who won a game against death, and wasn't allowed to die... I wish that someone could've taken the poor thing in, given them something other than being trapped in a labyrinth. Because if they truly can't die, I doubt the suggestions of setting the thing on fire would do much in killing it. But if they truly are immortal, then they deserve something better than being locked away... I desperately wish that, even despite their decrepit state, that someone would take them away from being eternally entombed. Maybe they could take up a hobby, try to live with this eternal torment of painful immortality. Perhaps they could find peace with their existence if they didnt have to be trapped.. maybe an avatar of another fear could actually kill them. I'm sure there's fics out there, but i wish in the series they had explored this 'immortality' aspect more. Especially with Oliver Banks being important, these 'reapers' never really are mentioned again.

[@odothedoll2738]

Hmm an Ancient Egyptian tomb that inexplicably doesn’t have a name attached to it. And involves a life and death game. And is kind of like a maze. IT’S TIME TO DU-DU-DU-DU-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-DUEL

[@_tench_]

Death is only the beginning :’(

[@Badficwriter]

I read a story once about a guy becoming a spirit. It was a very sweet series, but a bit slow and contemplative. One contained story was a vampire who was sealed in a tomb and constantly prayed for the release of death for years and years. The guy visited it, and there was a certain amount of Christian equivicating--that there was a purpose to suffering--but I think he did give it peace. It was a nice story and I wish this former death people could find something like that.

[@coreacartoonist]

I love the image of Jon, clearly dishevelled and unstable, walking around perpetually gripping at a tape recorder and recording people without their consent at random moments

[@midnights2631]

Finding out this is someone who escaped death only to be mummified because they couldn't die is sad. :( I want to hug them.

[@majofras3023]

i was so sad for the mummy having to live in that way for all the eternity, and then John end the tape the way that he end it

[@emanmehmood8203]

This one actually sounds nightmarish, an eternity of loneliness and u cant even die omg

[@gabrielangelosenramoura9462]

17:28 “The egyptians believed the most important thing you could do in your life was die”

[@lilalino]

yess i thought of that too lol

[@pot-ay-topot-ah-to4325]

oh my god, it was a maze to GET OUT of rather than get into, because the egyptians that buried the person wanted to make sure that in case they ever escaped the ‘straight-jacket’ bandages, they wouldn’t be able to find a way out of the tomb i’m going to cry

[@Gekyouryuu]

despite doing my best to pay attention for recurring names and such as I go through my first listen of this series, funny enough the thing that's gotten the biggest "wait, what was that?!" reaction from me so far... was hearing "Pennsylvania" since I grew up there.

[@Batatkacom]

Next statement is Binary The thought that I will listen to it tomorrow fills me with fear.

[@mimkyodar]

Mystery "Spoilers" for those who want it End

[@azulBjort_1406]

Kind of ironic that Avatars of the end/death would be inmortal 😅

[@princesssparrow4530]

I feel like TMA wil end with having every single job presented in their episodes.

[@UhOphelia]

17:27 My immediate thought was the Philomena Cunk clip.

[@jmjw2004]

This one definitely relates to episode 29

[@f_mva]

yes! ancient egyptian stuff!! love that shit!!

[@TheCrimebaby]

Mummy man deserved better, fam

[@themakuta]

When Jon said "end supplement" I had to go back and check to make sure he didn't actually say "supplemental" while Basira was scolding him 🤣🤣

[@tearez13]

if night at the museum was a horror movie

[@wonderwhatsgonnahappen579]

Man this sounds weird but i want to hug the mummy 😔 (Same guy that played against Death probably)

[@cupcaketv5673]

Maybe not connected but I just had the thought, because of the dice, what if that mummy is one of the people who won in a game against death and have become immortal, having to battle others in hope they'll win? What if this mummy never lost against anyone, or maybe didn't even get the chance to play, or didn't want to because it didn't want to put this fate onto anyone else? Like, e.g., what if the mummy was buried and 'killed' because of its grotesque appearance and the people were afraid of it? Or what if it did lose a game but remained immortal and still got buried alive?

[@jordansedgwick8551]

Bro had absolutely nothing to say about another undying person, or the dice??? Jon pls connect some more dots here. I also find it fascinating that death? is letting this soul rot instead of making it gather other souls, like this should be its the punishment for cheating death instead of living undead

[@tazegg9201]

Thank you! I was also thinking this was connected to Death since the dice were in the room and they acted like they wanted to be killed, but I wasn't sure

[@Timburtonbarbie]

This makes me think so much of John Amhearsts "final" state from tale of a field hospital episode..

[@dormens_mortem]

Legit this made me gasp ‘they wanted to die’ the mummy makes me so sad

[@LordBearington]

*Insert Chuckle Brothers reference*

[@juliankohler5086]

4:30 WTH! This person is the most disgusting yet! Even Mary Kay had some decency! This is shameless! Mary would certainly make a page out of this one.

[@TIGGYQUE]

"I feel like they're watching me all the time." yeah.... about that....

[@fluxbird]

thats what u get for being a grave robber lmao

[@charliem.1368]

can you call it a grave if it doesn’t house anything dead?

[@Timburtonbarbie]

​@@charliem.1368+

[@littlerapunzel8320]

Well now I'm sad :(

[@coreacartoonist]

Poor Egyptian guy :(

[@moonlight_scribe]

...... Surprised he didn't note the similarity to the guy who had shot himself over and over and was still alive.

[@chillinwithfrogs9708]

Wait, which episode was that ?

[@moonlight_scribe]

@chillinwithfrogs9708 I cannot recall. I believe the story was from the POV of a detective and he found the victim sitting in the chair with multiple wounds.

[@chillinwithfrogs9708]

@@moonlight_scribe ah thx 4 the reply !! ill check for it

[@rachelb8015]

This chick: outright refuses to engage with most of the basic work that comprises 95% of the archaeological field, is generally dismissive towards the organizations and people that tend to hire/work with archaeologists, appears to struggle with basic concepts such as "the difference between excavation and looting" or "why looting is bad" in a way that indicates both a near-zero comprehension of what actually goes on during archaeological fieldwork and a general lack of personal integrity Also this chick: but I just don't understand why I could never get a job in the field?? clearly it must just be because everyone is super hostile to newcomers and nobody is hiring, right??? I think the real most horrifying thing about this statement was the reveal that she was still around and training to become a teacher.

[@kehlcassidy9562]

What's the basic work she refuses to engage with? She just says 'professional disputes,' or something like that, and yeah she sounds straight up awful to work with and totally immoral, but is there something more specific I didn't catch?

[@rachelb8015]

@@kehlcassidy9562 Wow late reply lol. It's been a while since I listened to this, so I don't remember specifics. But iirc generally - With the archaeological program I was training on/in at the time: 1. The VAST majority of current archaeological work is ideally done in collaboration with marginalized groups (ie. working with indigenous tribes to piece together historical information, working with construction companies to ensure buildings do not take place on top of culturally significant sites, doing community outreach and trying to involve any connected groups when doing fieldwork.) It recognizes the descendants of a site's inhabitants as having powerful say in what happens with the site. 2. Current archeology recognizes that most of the information gained from an artifact can only be done within its original context (soil depth, what items were found nearby, what can the soil composition tell us about the environment this artifact was found in, etc.) Because of this, large-scale excavations are not as commonly done - and involve a lot of meticulous categorization of every soil sample/pot shard/seed/animal bone on a per inch or foot basis. It's often preferred to use stuff like ground penetrating radar to get a sense of what is underground without damaging a site's context. 3. Related, the idea of this "adventurer archaeologist" who delves into tombs and collects artifacts for museums is very much an "old shame" that the field is trying to distance itself from. Not only does it not reflect what the current field looks like, it's also done irreparable harm to many valuable sites that could have otherwise yielded a lot of information. (To the point where a lot of current jobs/internships may also involve trying to place looted artifacts back into their original context, or return them to their owners.) 4. This is all stuff that they basically spend the first week or so of any intro class drilling into students heads, so it was pretty wild to hear she managed to graduate without retaining any of it. Of course, I also went to school in the US, and MA iirc is set in London - so archaeological programs/jobs may look a bit different there. But I do think it's a general cultural shift.

[@faikoellipses]

God I was scouring the comments to see if there were any other actual archaeologists listening to this and cringing like I was. I had to go back and double check the date on the original statement to make sure this wasn't from the 80s or something, back in the bad old days, but no, she's ignoring basic concepts like provenience and local support in 2015! The real horror here is that she somehow got her master's before giving up.

[@jackbelmont4389]

From the guy that "cheating death" story, wasnt there a way to break the immortality? I dont really remember

[@odditycat2716]

I think it was to lose a game against another dying person, making them the new death

[@MisterListenstoomuch]

Hmmm Death, or The End as they've called it now, operating this long ago isnt surprising but i wonder if the other beings/factions were around yet...

[@Watermelonie4]

Omg this is JUST like Yu-Gi-Oh

[@charmii4475]

Maybe the mummy was one of those grim reapers in cheating death?

[@Sxcheschka]

or just part of The End

[@Erynwithawhy13]

OMG giving the muscle the aliases Barry & Paul

[@nemnyoom]

"barry and paul" YOU MEAN THE CHUCKLE BROTHERS???

[@Iratepandabear]

Poor mummy dude :(

[@grinstrashcan]

Well, that's just sad... :(

[@ikitt3n945]

Imagine the shock. you’re the mummy and haven’t seen anyone since forever. then some random people show up in weird clothing, talking in a weird language, and pulled out weird weapons. I guess the mummy had bigger worries, but still if the mummy wasn’t in the condition they were in they’d have a heart attack at the culture shock 😂

[@jojoceda]

Shouldve hired Brendan Fraser

[@ohheckitsthatkid7364]

"Barry and Paul" the Albanian chuckle brothers

[@mayapopp6464]

i hate the goddamn tombaroli and their damage to the archeology and history field - a history major

[@frogonthebikeheh]

Poor thing, it just wanted to die...

[@JAG3003]

barry and paul......as in the chuckle brothers? =-D

[@evananderson7728]

"The chances of my career continuing were somewhere between zero and no."

[@wildwolf3860]

4:59 yoo albania ... Represent gang!!! 🇦🇱🇦🇱🇦🇱

[@themathoviansociety6357]

Kur kan me mesu...prej shqiperis vin krejt cudirat e arkajvit🇦🇱🇦🇱🦅🧙‍♂️

[@lahlybird895]

So that was a very short note and a very short supplemental

[@MrLordbubasith]

Start 1:05

[@whentheskittlesfightback]

seeing people surprised in the comments confuses me.. maybe its the way eye just cant recall my emotions all that well but around this point in the story eye was not affected by a thing. while eye was listening to this statement 4 the first time eye was sitting with and talking to other people casually :p not a reaction in sight