The Mystery of the Persian Princess

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In October of 2000, a video tape surfaced on the black market showing potential buyers something incredibly bizarre. A mummy inside of a sarcophagus and from there things only got even more mysterious as it led police and many in the archeological community down a rabbit hole that still remains unsolved.
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[@Cadaber]

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I love your content and I love hunt a killer so I think you deserve the sponsorship

[@robjackson4050]

if you really want the sponsor you could give up pateron the fact that you have one proves you have sponsors just to be an asshole because i pay not to see ads and if anyone should be getting money it's me for the forced ad

[@shawnswathwood2370]

It took me a minute to realize he was doing an ad since I was half paying attention. Just seemed like he was trying to build up to the plot

[@dustyyshellz1320]

Haha yeah same

[@MrJustwastingmylife]

I'm sorry but every. single. time I hear the words "that's just a theory" I internally hear the obnoxious words "A GAME THEORY" and I don't know how to make it stop

[@yoshita4140]

same😭

[@hylemxylem6756]

But thats just a theory, A GAY THEORY

[@Zamorack13]

Lobotomy plz

[@creativedesignation7880]

I'm much more bugged by the fact that people say "That's just a theory." when what they really mean is: "That's just a hypothesis."

[@AshHeaven]

@Creative Designation True True

[@wanderinghistorian]

Pakistan: "It's our mummy!" Iran: "No, it's our mummy!" American: "It's a fake you guys lol."

[@AlcoholicBoredom]

America: Look, we know about mummies. We made one of the best mummy movies last year. Though I have a terrible feeling we’re going to REALLY screw that up about 17 years from now.

[@AshHeaven]

XD This whole situation feels like a big joke.

[@b0leg23]

Cadaber: yea mummies so egyptian stuff or whatever idk

[@lightgreen3479]

Russia: _OUR_ mummy

[@s_u_l_f_u_r]

Kinda ironic how an american archeologist seemed to know more about middle eastern scriptures and history than actual middle eastern investigators. 😂

[@NightDocs]

“The final nail in the coffin”… how dare you

[@Cadaber]

Ayeeeee 😎👉🏻👉🏻

[@AshHeaven]

⚰️🔨

[@cheng3580]

Bruh

[@EricPudalov]

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA, by the way I'm a big fan of both you and Cadaber! Keep up the great work.

[@FNTM2k3]

Living up to your name, talking about an actual cadaver.

[@gaudi77]

lol i didn’t know that word was in english

[@familiathelabel7482]

Its Cadaber though, and there is no definition for “Cadaber”, and there isnt any thing to say its another term for a dead body or a corpse

[@creativedesignation7880]

@@familiathelabel7482 The name Cadaber a combination of "cadaver" and "dab", hence the dabbing skeleton as a logo.

[@seepingcrimson]

crazy

[@FNTM2k3]

@@seepingcrimson strange

[@30secondsflat]

Judging by what else I've read, it seems to be the death was caused vehicular impact to the back. Could be that it was an accidental death that one of the men exploited through grave robbery

[@loganh7133]

I bet he just murdered an significant other in a fight or something and tried to get rich instead of facing the consequences... just a theory

[@NikiValentine]

🤔 Hmmm

[@pseula]

It's ALWAYS the spouse!

[@shualel]

but based of the video, it seems the body was 200-50 years old, it wasnt really clear since cadaber said it was 250 years old or the body was dead in the 90s, the story was pretty vague but probably so is the information given by the archaeologist and shit. i dont really know how mummification of egyptian or persian works, but they were more incline to finding who she was, other than finding how these 3 men got a hold of her body, which is probably easier to make theories with since they have the body

[@or9422]

Seems like a massive stretch

[@WobblesandBean]

That sadly makes sense.

[@WobblesandBean]

I know it's so unlikely that they'll ever find her identity, but I still hope against hope that they do. Her true story deserves to be told, and if foul play was involved, justice needs to be served.

[@Tokuijin]

Unfortunately, given her estimated age (in her 20s) and the other factors to her corpse (like her teeth being removed post-mortem), it's unlikely she'll ever be ID'd, even more since they don't really know where exactly she came from (my guess is that she came from around the borderlands of Iran and Pakistan).

[@ur1cat]

I agree her identity won’t be found and I hope she is resting in peace.

[@riverland8809]

I think I remember watching about this in NatGeo around 2000s. It show how the scientist investigate and came to the realization that the mummy turned out to die quite recently. The mummy wrapping is quite new instead of being ancient etc. The mummy was later given a muslim burial, presuming she was a murder victim originating from the local Pakistan population

[@mixnflix101]

I thought this was a Lemmino upload at first and I'm not even disappointed lol

[@dogscott7881]

Haha love Lemmino but Cadaber is amazing too so same

[@noodlezz7545]

Honestly same! Idk I think it was the thumbnail or the fact that I recently went on a binge of Lemmino's video.

[@timpost2981]

I want a collab 🥺

[@rabbitttz]

@@timpost2981 if he collaborated with nexpo and urmaker I might finally be able to tell their voices apart..maybe. Unless they're all the same person 😳

[@Cadaber]

You and me both! 😂

[@haruki456]

It's very sad that when they thought she was a significant archeological finding her identity was an important thing to do and when they realized she was an ordinary woman who may have been murdered they didn't even care enough to figure out who she was and bury her.

[@co-mastah8149]

Barely Sociable and Cadaber upload on the same day? Hell yeah

[@illuminutty9723]

Your voice sound very crisp and smooth and "throaty." It relaxes but makes you pay attention.

[@garrettkujo26]

hey kinda sounds like Barely Sociable just not as deep as him

[@shahan484]

Raspy

[@eradict]

@@garrettkujo26 Barely tries too hard to sound creepy. Just speak with your normal voice, man.

[@kam2894]

@@eradict his channel is still one of the absolute best

[@eradict]

@@kam2894 Great content indeed. It's just his voice. He tries too hard maintain the deep raspy voice, and then when he gets carried away and starts using his normal voice we can hear it's not even bad. Just talk normal, man.

[@Harbinge]

Damn This is the first time ive seen a KZbinr cover a Pakistani Case, Since I'm Pakistani This story hits home as I remember the coverage this got.

[@SpeedKing..]

Fellow Pakistani 😳

[@manjsher3094]

India is best

[@MultiSciGeek]

I wish more KZbinrs covered stuff outside America. So much content!.. Instead they keep recycling the old domestic stuff :/

[@hubaibhabib7060]

I've never heard of this

[@gsmontag]

Could be also that she was one of the people who was fascinated with Egypt and wanted to be mummified when they died. If she died in the early 90's it may be that they had to wait that long for the pseudo mummification to take effect enough to be plausible, so they would've had to wait a long time to fake it. Also the mention of an earthquake as being part of how they found it is interesting, could be that she died in an earthquake and they incorporated that detail as a little nod to that?

[@Tokuijin]

The actual story might be less than cheery, since she was likely a victim of foul play.

[@kingovue]

Binged everything he uploaded. My favorites are the creepypasta uploads. I hate looking for good stories and cadaber does a good job of picking out good stories.

[@curlyfries2956]

“And they found pencil marks near the writing” bro I can’t 💀💀💀

[@peterfisher2065]

video starts at 4:10

[@HGAMES69]

Thanks.

[@sahar165]

This is a bit confusing :/ .. so scientists at first claimed the mummy was aged over 2600 y.o but then it turns out to be not ?.... thats a huge claim for it to turn a fake ... am i missing something

[@mini2199]

They first judged it to be so old based on the look of the burial etc. They were probably being blinded by the idea that they would discover something so amazing. There's sadly been many cases like this

[@creativedesignation7880]

I'd bet everything that none of the scientists ever said "It is over 2600 years old". Years or decades of study go by until a scientist will phrase something like that, but it only takes 5 minutes of a journalist or spokesperson trying to come up with a catchy headline to go from: "With what we currently know there is a high probability that it is likely the explanation is XYZ with this and that margin of error." to: "It is XYZ."

[@mlisaj1111]

That is pretty normal for dating vintage or antique items. Let’s say you found a clock that was in Art Deco style and similar to clocks from the 1920s…a first estimate would say it’s likely from the 1920s. But then when you ask a 1920s expert, they would say no, it’s plastic instead of the Bakelite used in the 20s, and it says made in China, which would not happen in the 1920s….and that it is a replica made in the late 1990s.

[@mikerentiers]

During the Victorian Age, people became so enthralled by tales of faraway places, deep in the jungles or from under the pyramid. It was such a fascination that a black market for shrunken heads, primitive weapons, actual people/tribesmen, and then there were lots of mummies. ' Let's pause to have a round of applause for mankind. Westerners plundered city ruins from Egyptian Antiquity, chopped down jungles to reach fabled cities of gold, and set about stealing artifacts to sell to the world and in the process destroyed any chance for actual archeological study. There are some good reads about this and the impact it had on our knowledge base of ancient history. As for fake mummy production, there was an assembly line for mummy making. If I remember, bodies of vagabonds and other unclaimed people were brought in through the back door. A canvass that no one cared for. These bodies would be mummified in a rapid fashion, using slapdash methods, and then "aged" to pass muster. The black market for artifacts from strange and faraway places was huge. I can't put any number on it, but the volume of fake artifacts greatly outweighed the real. Soon the world was filled with fake artifacts which is seriously bad for those responsible for accuracy in our study of the ancient world. This time period probably set archeology back decades and we lost unknowable amounts of information and artifacts on these great civilizations. Tell yourself that you will be more aware of what you do and how you impact things around you. Humans get so focused on themselves and never see what happens next 3 moves down the line and it's always bad. We take something good, super-size it, make it 10 x more potent, cheaper, more convenient. And for each luxury something had to give. Stripping the land of nutrients and minerals, trashing every square in of the planet, excess consumerism promises to support slavery in developing nations for a long time to come.

[@AnimeHipster1]

Woke a paper for this in my archaeology class. It’s a really mysterious, interesting topic!

[@MisakaMikotoDesu]

2:20 to skip the ad

[@saraboustan208]

the scariest theory is that this poor woman was murdered for the sole purpose of getting mummified and sold,since studies showed that the process started shortly after her death. Also through the years after this incident went viral,multiple poorly mummified bodies from the same area were being sold in the black market which all turned out to be unidentifiable corpses of women!

[@rio5725]

The editing is actually superior to every documentary and tv show I ever watched. How are you not more recognized

[@Cadaber]

That’s very kind of you to say. I am grateful for the community I have, regardless of its size.

[@SHOT_GUNNER]

You and Lemmino are my two absolute favorite channels to binge watch. Flawless content! ☺️

[@glxssy8037]

Yesss I was very bored and then cadaber uploads. Used your code for hunt-a-killer! Only bought one box before so this is my second

[@okate251]

is it fun? i'd love a review of it that isn't paid

[@eradict]

@@okate251 He could very well be paid to say this lol. But it's worth a shot. Also, damn you're cute. Sorry.

[@nateb3679]

@@eradict aye man thanks again for letting me use your rari to drive my grandma to her dr appointment

[@eradict]

@@nateb3679 no probs, man. Anytime.

[@mx.menacing]

Wtf is this comment chain

[@pissqueendanniella4688]

The simple brilliance of the logo for Hunt a Killer never ceases to impress me.

[@Castlefair01]

Love love your content!! Very well done and interesting. I'm binging everything

[@aer_ea]

What a great video! It was nice watching while having a snack at night. Thank you

[@ArizonaAkinTv]

Story starts at 4:11

[@HannahandCailinLoesch]

This is fascinating, thanks so much Cadaber! Can't believe we'd never heard of it

[@riyo.38]

I don't know about this one. I don't want it to sound like a conspiracy, but a lot of things don't add up for me. They never checked the ID of the guy, who owned the fake mummy? They let him go, after they confirmed, he owned it? They first thought it was 2600 years old? A random collector actually had to come forward and expose them/ the mummy? They found it after an earthquake or something? They tried to sell it on the black market, but didn't make sure, only people who really would be interested in it, would see it? A lot of sus activity, if you ask me

[@nateb3679]

You know IDs can be faked right

[@riyo.38]

@@nateb3679 you know that police aso, should be able to tell the difference between a normal and a fake ID, right? Of course I know that, but with someone owning a god damn mummy I would make sure to find out everything about him and everybody who he's associated with. It's not like he just got pulled over and even then, they check your ID.

[@singularityraptor4022]

@@riyo.38 It's pakistan don't expect much.

[@riyo.38]

@@singularityraptor4022 true, although it's kinda crazy, when you think about it. Like the infrastructural differences between well developed and still developing countries. But, that's a whole nother discussion

[@singularityraptor4022]

@@riyo.38 yea... Anyways stay safe

[@TheAdventuresofCweed]

Quality content as usual. Keep it up I fw the vision heavy better thing otw fosho j keep grinding keep finding ways to make your ways better. love

[@shamirquinones8607]

I always enjoy your uploads. They leave me wanting more.

[@caseyd9471]

New Cadaber! Let's do this!!

[@chrismarce420]

This one I’ve heard of a little bit very excited for this video

[@Sanakudou]

Was not expecting that twist at the end. It’s a shame we’ll never know who she really was.

[@thesixfootsixexperience8781]

Really love your channel, Dabs. The quality of your content is up there with Nexpo and Sociable

[@las10plagas]

right now, I am thinking about replacing my teeth with pure diamonds, so I have unbreakable teeth and never have to go to the dentist anymore

[@patmorris9692]

Egyptian pyramids, Mycenaean walls, Persian princess, Latin scriptures, Pakistani smugglers… Still an AWESOME video by Cadaber!!!! One of my faves on YT.

[@vexication934]

I’ve just been bingeing your videos and I’m having a great time

[@socialus5689]

Congrats on your quick rise to fame. Your videos are good, and your southern accent is just great )

[@trosinesss]

Te amo cadaver

[@kingdavidsavior9473]

Te amo

[@vihreaihme1508]

Right as the video ended something fell over in the room next to me 😭

[@darrelldog5]

That is a crazy story... It is cool they somewhat solved the case. Though it left everyone with more questions then answers... Thanks for another great video...

[@Jaxentdaniel]

Cadaber and Barely both posted in the same day let’s go

[@lucasmcclain3088]

That plot twist with the American archaeologist was insane.

[@user-ce6cl8wg3r]

great video dude!

[@TheAbigailDee]

Really love your content!!

[@TamDNB]

Dude. just cos it's a mummy, doesn't mean you have ALLLL the shots of Egypt & Egyptian artwork 😂

[@dejazO0]

“this thing belongs to museum!” ~ Indiana Jones

[@pinrod1]

"This belongs in a museum!" ~ Henry "Indiana" Jones

[@jacosisaba]

Lazy masquerade introduced this story to me!

[@blueskittle1779]

Not Even mad to see 6 ads on your channel. You deserve it boss❤️

[@420TitsMagee]

Been here since 1.5 k and I’m still asking myself why you don’t have a mill ❤️

[@MyMiserableLife]

122k subs lol. Dood, I remember you on reddit after your 2nd or 3rd video was made . Congrats .

[@deatheternal720]

Watch out y'all, this absolute KING is cadabbing on his haters.

[@mayrln]

hey cadaber. i appreciate you. thank you for making these videos and introducing us to lesser known unsolved mysteries. thank you.

[@madeinapyramid]

This was a great one 😁

[@HSapien99]

Fire 🔥 content as usual

[@Jabarri74]

Excellent video, well presented and thought provoking narrative. Someone mentioned your channel in a barely sociable vid and now you have a new sub. Keep up the good work and now I'm happy I have your back catalogue to binge on :) Might wanna /poke at google though when i searched your channel in youtube it autochanged it to cadaver and made me pick

[@ItzRetz]

It makes me sad thinking of all the real ancient artifacts that get sold on the black market and will never be on display in a museum. There's probably entire museums worth of artifacts in private possession bought through the black market. Some even think that the Mona Lisa in the Louvre is a fake and that the real one is in private possession, lol.

[@funniebunnie4u]

Awesome... As always!

[@Wonrofccsreal]

I didnt check this channel in 2 months and he's already at 120k, goddamn

[@yesssint7243]

I liked this one. Keep it up

[@emmaolssonfernanda]

this is really really good

[@kittentoys2051]

I'm really surprised they didnt do isotopic studies on her teeth/hair or take dna samples to try and get a ballpark of where she was from/possibly find living relatives...

[@richardrahl9371]

Good point. But it's possible that the attempt at creating a fake mummy has destroyed possible evidence. Or it was good old negligence. Not to forget the disagreement between Pakistan and Iran.

[@helloruan]

The Cadaber theme song slaps so hard!

[@davibeats]

14:05 Okay but where exactly do you find 250 year old wood anyway?

[@lindsayschmidt2177]

Probably the same black market they were selling it on.

[@jon...5324]

anywhere outside of america? the nearest antique store or even junk shop. only the US thinks that 250 years is old

[@AshHeaven]

8:14 “Six hundred million rubies?!” Rubies?! Rubles?! Rupees?! That does make more sense, but wow, I want six hundred million rubies.

[@swagathan5]

Morshu would be jealous.

[@AG-en5y]

Good stuff

[@rabbitttz]

I thought I'd been subscribed for a few months now, guess not lol. I am now. You mustve just been in my recommended

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

There's something really ghoulish about this case especially when you take into consideration that this fraud may have sparked a conflict due to the fight over the remains and who people believed they belonged to. An innocent woman was murdered for profit and had it not been caught in time, it could have gotten a lot worse.

[@mysticthemanakete]

'Where the right answer is right in front of us, and yet we are looking in any other direction.' Me trying to find something I put down only half-remembering where I last saw it.

[@braeden9606]

A day early? What a pleasant surprise!

[@its_a_me_pickle]

underrated channel

[@DonHavjuan]

Mummies were once so common they burned them as fuel.

[@sanguiniusonvacation1803]

At 2600 years old, any material buried in that ground for that long would be in a lot worse shape .

[@rifi8706]

What is the intro song? It’s so good!

[@lmao6693]

ayyy a new vid!

[@gorefieldluvr6921]

Wow, incredible!!!

[@deeps.]

14:03 good one.

[@ghiblitears2531]

great video!!! te amo

[@JohnSmith-xg9ns]

i missed this vid in my subbox. Weird that I overlooked it, I guess

[@nateb3679]

babe wake up new cadaber

[@Inshy12]

Never clicked on a notification faster!

[@deatheternal720]

TFW you see "cadaber" in ur notifications and you start foaming at the mouth trying to click

[@antigone7980]

Dude I just realized your name is a play on the word "Cadaver" and "Dab" wow how did that take so long

[@kingali1606]

Baqi: I swear, it's legit bro. *One Week Later* Baqi: SIKE!

[@PTQ4Q4Q4Q4]

This channel is mwah, super.

[@singularityraptor4022]

It was really funny that you put Pyramid B-roll footage in the beginning when talking about stuffs happening in Pakistan, where there are no pyramids. I want to be clear I like your vids but you could put some proper effort into B-roll footage rather than unrelated things you did now. I hope you correct this. Cheers

[@garbagegremlins4707]

Chubbyemu and cadaber in the same day? Am I dreaming?

[@Cadaber]

New videos presenting ☝🏻 to your feed

[@cryptiecreep]

This is a case that I think about quite a lot.

[@JQuitugua-pq6zr]

Omg i dont even know how this goes but is this seriously gonna be my story no fricking way

[@roberttractortaylor]

A+! Personally I loved this one. Please do more like this and less about Reddit 😊

[@nokiot9]

Lol heckler and Koch gonna be PISSED about that logo 😂

[@theoriginldw]

there was a sponsored ad at the beginning and i didn’t even notice, i feel tricked!

[@zakattack3256]

I swear I subscribed to you, I wonder why it shows that I haven’t

[@extinctoart]

Jeepers that was a wild goddamn ride

[@CoobyPls]

Hey Cadaber! I know you can't possibly read every comment here before long, so I just wanted to say again, I'm proud to watch you blow up like you are and I admire your natural talent for this. Hope you keep going strong, sir!