This Ancient Hieroglyph is ADORABLE

[@moongirl786]

My favourite hieroglyph is the one you can transliterate to "chem" I believe, its a pair of shrugging arms, and it literally means "not to know"... I love it so much

[@jaxwarp8373]

My favorite is the one for "to give to someone" it's a pot with legs

[@karama5562]

Took chemistry this year. Ik it’s ã transliteration but I think two shrugging arms is the best way to describe the class

[@Pharaoh_Tutankhamen]

my favorite is Seshen, a lotus flower shaped hieroglyphic, meaning: lotus flower

[@altersami9660]

Couldn't find anything about this. Got a link?

[@Where_is_Waldo]

I believe you mean pronounce as chem rather than translate to chem but that is great.

[@OctagonalSquare]

I can just see a priest turning to another and saying: “Hey, can you double check the wall? I can’t remember if it’s teaspoons or tablespoons”

[@UH-60_Blackhawk]

"oh yeah bro i gotchu... ...it's teaspoons, just checked."

[@Loralanthalas]

😂😂😂😂 its a little t

[@saturdaynighto74261]

I cant remember if its masonic alien helicopter or eye. I guess we need more sticky bee goo from the store, so i wanna get going before RA closes the stargate. I'll leave the keys to the flinstones car on the counter.

[@OctagonalSquare]

@@saturdaynighto74261 I didn’t understand 90% of that, but love the Star Gate reference

[@JcoleMc]

@@OctagonalSquare Gen Z humor you wouldn't understand

[@abe881]

"Amundamn it, what did you put in this incense?? You know what? So you don't mess this up again I'll write it in stone on the wall" - Egyptian Priest about to immortalize their recipe for incense

[@mlkh8073]

That's probably what happened 😂

[@lonestarr1490]

"Amundamn it", lol. That one goes right into everyday's language.

[@julian2789]

​@lonestarr1490 that flew over my head until I saw you said something about it 🤣🤣

[@P.Whitestrake]

Since it's in Horus' temple wouldn't "Horus damn it!" more relevant?

[@BrazilianImperialist]

​@@P.Whitestrake Yes

[@rkang6531]

This kinda stuff is still done in a lot of Labs around the world where the researchers put up "recipes" for regularly used mixtures and processes on sticky notes around their work stations. It's actually a smart and handy thing to do

[@jannikheidemann3805]

Sticky notes won't last millenia.

[@rkang6531]

@@jannikheidemann3805 They do if you use tape ಠ⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ⁠ಠ

[@Thomas.3698]

​@@rkang6531sticky notes are unattractive esp. when taped. Just write it on the wall

[@wea69420]

I love how massive the stinger is on the bee drawing. Really puts the emphasis on what matters lol

[@marcomoreno6748]

"You're gonna need some sweet sticky stuff from these mf'ers, bring a pot... and watch out THEY STING.

[@jannikheidemann3805]

Were talking about african bees here.

[@javelin1423]

maybe the bees are huge thousand years ago, though I don't why they shrunk if its true

[@FC-eh7ll]

I didn’t realise it was the stinger initially, thought it was a second random pot or block of stuff 😂 But wow ok that is huge lol

[@Noelci035]

​@@javelin1423 It's more likely that they didn't want it to get confused with a mosquito, fly or some other flying bugs so they exaggerate the identifying piece of a bee

[@NoriMori1992]

I think the most adorable part is how they literally just wrote the recipe right on the wall so they could check it at any time. Like, these days so many employers expect you to just memorize shit, even if it would cost them nothing to have a list and would reduce errors. But these guys were like nah this shit's important, can't leave anything to chance, on the wall it goes. My favourite part is they don't need a book stand or anything, they can just look straight forward and there it is!

[@aleksandrakowalczyk6043]

Actually we do...

[@I2ed3ye]

Usually we call them SoP or Standards of Practice. Old school places have a three-ring binder of recipes and most places just keep it on an intranet website. Just like this recipe on the wall, you're still supposed to memorize it. You just check from time to time to make sure you haven't deviated from the standard

[@Angie_flores]

Well thats cuz it was probably used in rituals and ceremonies so it was extra important to them, their whole civilization had emphasis on that. Who knows maybe the white house has important stuff on the walls too. But you can’t compare that to the working life of today lol unless you work for nasa or something lol

[@claudiamanta1943]

😂 No.

[@-desertpackrat]

Most of these people just like many of us today, would naturally memorize recipes, they only needed to read the wall a few times when they're first learning it. We still have to learn recipes the first time from a cookbook or online. I have hundreds of cookbooks, but I rarely have to open them now because most of my recipes I just memorized over time. Ancient Egyptians were as perceptive and intelligent as we are, they probably were expected to eventually be able to make their incense and things without running back to the wall every single time they make the thing. Someone is trained and then they're expected to remember that training, it was the same back then. Ancient people wrote battle strategies on walls to teach young soldiers being trained, but those soldiers had to memorize everything to go out in the field, they didn't consult notes lol, not while you're on the clock. Written materials were for training mostly.

[@agent57]

Why don't we write important things on the walls anymore? 😆

[@ElysetheEevee]

I mean, I guess we still do kind of, like murals (in some cases), memorials, plaques, etc. Definitely not as fun as this, though haha.

[@samuelbucher5189]

We do. That's what "no smoking" and emergency exit signs are.

[@Alex-cq1zr]

Well, various science thing have boards for writing and posters with important info. Ig this was like some sort of a poster, just kinda set in stone due to, perhaps, importance, or idk why they haven't used papyrus. Surely made the writing preserve better.

[@Bruh-wb3qw]

The is no way a modern wall will last hundreds of years lmao

[@AP-nu7hb]

​@@Bruh-wb3qw Thats was the perfect answer😂

[@CWINDOWSsystem32]

And millennia later, we've come full circle with "🐝🍯".

[@BuriedFlame]

orz uwu

[@craftycriminalistwithms.z3053]

Or, a few millennial latter

[@SiiriCressey]

​@@deoneforpeace..........What?

[@SiiriCressey]

​@@BuriedFlame orz uwu (whatever that means) to you, too.

[@deoneforpeace]

@@SiiriCressey Gosh.....Must have thought been commenting on a different video!!!....I don't see the relatedness either now!!....THANK YOUUUU.....BEST BLESSED WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR 2024 🙏 💞 💖

[@carl8703]

And now we're drawing emoji. Old is new again. 🍯🐝

[@Twocat5side]

🍯🐝

[@astrOtuba]

𓏌𓆤

[@helldronez]

😂😅

[@squishy2229]

🍯🐝

[@lonely__noodles]

🍯🐝

[@keiyakins]

"how can we be sure we're doing this right?" "just engrave the recipe on the wall lmao" sometimes, the simple solution is the best.

[@krankarvolund7771]

That's the reason we have so much onformations about egyptian after-life, they wrote all the steps to get to the after-life on the walls of the tombs to make sure the deads will not forget them XD Then they wrote them on the sarcophagus, and on books placed in the tomb, just to be reaaaally sure ^^

[@zoeydeu2261]

This is how Chinese characters evolved too. It began as symbolic pictures or representations of things. The word for goat still has two flicks at the top representing the horns.

[@scanningallvidzs]

The symbol for turtle 龜 literally looks like a turtle 🐢 if you turn the emoji sideways with the head pointing up and the legs towards the left

[@ElizaArika]

​@@scanningallvidzs forest and tree are one of my faves cuz its simple and straightforward. Forest 森 just being a bunch of trees 木 together and tree just being a stick with branches 🤣

[@yucol5661]

Even the Latin script goes back to drawings if you go as far back as Proto-sinaitic (although that too goes back to hieroglyphs). Our letter A (the shape more than the sound) was an Ox. H a fence, O an eye, M water, P a head. It’s raider to visualize with drawings look up “Possible correspondences between Proto-Sinaitic and Phoenician letters”

[@kuutti256]

​@@yucol5661 P is a mouth, R is a head

[@cat_city2009]

IIRC the character for cat is a combination of grass, field and dog. "oh, it's like a dog but it slinks around in the grass in the fields."

[@mrcool-mp5px]

"papyrus" I hear how his laughing gets louder...

[@cool_6042]

😂

[@Gensei-Kihara]

would you consider making some? i tried looking it up on yt but its just witches using essential oils, herbs and taking a bunch of creative liberties. i'd really like to see it recreated as closely to the original recipe as possible. i tried making it once a long time ago but it was really bad lol.

[@thethoughtemporium]

Already have. Needed it for a bigger project but there'll be a dedicated video on making it as well

[@Gensei-Kihara]

@@thethoughtemporium thank you!!!!

[@blakksheep736]

​@@thethoughtemporium I'm looking forward to it!

[@lostpony4885]

​@@thethoughtemporium how is it, does it smell nice?

[@disideratum]

​@@thethoughtemporium I would love to learn how to make ancient Egyptian perfumes and incense. Also curious what biblical "anointing oil" actually is? (Used for the King's Coronation so timely/relevant)

[@Julys443]

I think its so cool that they literally carved their knowledge on their walls. Its almost poetic, right? a building containing the knowledge that was practiced there

[@ItsAsparageese]

Me, half-serious about building a stone castle on rural land someday: _Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN! ... on a wall!_ 😂

[@pomponi0]

@@ItsAsparageese If you're somewhat serious about preserving a text, I'd suggest you a big, solid stelae. Castles are made of stone, but they're very costly and collapse easily. A 10 ton monolith in the middle of nowhere will potentially remain legible for thousands of years.

[@Not_blue_000]

I carve the voices on the walls

[@Izryel_loves_jesus]

Casually drops the fact that you wrote beautiful hieroglyphs on authentic papayas

[@MutohMech]

Love the typo

[@HiDefHDMusic]

I like putting my hieroglyphs on mangos myself 😂

[@cyborgfalcon]

I prefer carving them in coconut myself

[@Human-san]

Guava ftw💪

[@somethingedgy2185]

Papyrus

[@jacobo6652]

Now i wanna see a video of you recreating the kyphi incense

[@VOLITIONSPARK]

Me too!

[@SarahShilton-q9g]

Yes please 🙏

[@JariDawnchild]

I'm late, but so do I. 😊

[@visualchallenge2413]

This papyrus writing is graphically very elegant !

[@melody3741]

Its just very delicate. Look at one individual picture. The linework is no better than my writing

[@laurieb3703]

​@@melody3741 hater

[@joshuagraham3854]

Let's see, if I'm reading this right, you take some honey, three ground up aloe leaves, three fish eggs, one whole penguin...this isn't gonna be a weekend project, I can tell already.

[@SarahShilton-q9g]

😅😂

[@andreifluster6243]

The end! The sheer power that he said "Draw a BEE AND A POT"

[@TesserId]

O.K. I wanna get this recipe over to my aromatherapist ASAP.

[@NoNicheGuy]

Bee and a pot… must have been the original language of Winnie the Pooh.

[@amekanasai]

Interesting because the chinese character 蜜 for honey is pronounced "bit" in minnan (hokkien) too

[@astrOtuba]

"Bit" is a made-up by egyptologysts pronunciation since 100 hears ago they didn't have language reconstruction techniques and just added random vowels and replased /w/ with /u/ & /j/ with /i/. /biˈjat/ is a reconstructed pronunciation (there's video "What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like - and how we know" by NativLang if you are curious), basically we can't say with 100% confidence that bjt (consonants of the word, they were written) was pronounced like biˈjat, but we can say that with 99% confidence.

[@nicolesong6199]

蜜汁? Mizhi? Honey juice?

[@Samuel-wm1xr]

​@@nicolesong6199 the Tang dynasty-Song dynasty pronunciation (中古漢語) for 蜜 is "myit", but Putonghua has no more 入聲 at the back so it now sounds like mì

[@d.i.m.eproductions6925]

@@astrOtubaconsidering that J is very uncommon in middle eastern languages, it’s not too difficult to come to the conclusion that it’s not pronounced bijat

[@jameslong9921]

​Is your profession Egyptology as you sound rather knowledgeable, perhaps linguistics? Maybe an interest?

[@HeisenbergFam]

Imagine if people today wrote their personal journals on walls, would feel kinda weird knowing everyone would see it

[@ecospider5]

I said quit following me. Seriously it’s weird.

[@1d10tcannotmakeusername]

Is that not a trope attributed to madmen?

[@feuerling]

Basically social media

[@Ewr42]

​@@ecospider5 how am i always the first one to point out that it's a bot?

[@josiahhockenberry9846]

They do. Facebook literally has a wall.

[@tnwhiskey68]

I like the Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tubeman above and to the right of the one you pointed out!

[@FocusBeyond777]

I'm drinking a Mocha, but now you've made me want orange cinnamon tea with honey. 🐝🍯 You've flipped my weekend upside down!😂

[@Jeremy.Bearemy]

Glenn: I'm gonna try something a little different today with the incense. I mean its not like the recipe is written in stone. Greg: Glenn you cant do that

[@Daiyu-Xiang]

Just so you know, hieroglyphics arent ALWAYS read from right to left, it depends on which way the hieroglyphs are facing, as you read facing towards the hieroglyphs. If they're facing left, you read from left to right, if they're facing right, you read from right to left as shown in the video (it doesn't matter whether they're in a collumn or not, you still apply the same logic) hope this helps!

[@bexthewitch87]

I wish it was like a recipe online; starting with a looooong story youve got to scroll through before you get to it. Like "this incense recipe reminds me of grandma's house on a Tuesday when I was a little kid..."

[@Ggdivhjkjl]

That's a great idea! Kitchens should come with recipes carved onto their walls.

[@SylentTiger]

Bee and Pot... I thought it looked like a tongue licking a bee's behind. BUT I can also see it being interpreted as a pot...😂

[@anon_y_mousse]

I've got to admit, that is pretty cute.

[@nightcoresubliminals2038]

I am OBSESSED with the bee hieroglyphs. The one for "beekeeper" is a bee, a skep that's just a half circle, and a guy either making gabby hands or holding a stick. Skeps are awesome too- laziest beekeeping ever. Just give the bees an upturned woven bowl and let them build the comb as they please. So cool

[@shadeofsound23]

Did it start with a personal story from their childhood?

[@kelseyjaffer]

LOL a story about their kid getting sick and having to take care of them in the middle of carving the recipe into the wall 😭

[@richewilson6394]

WOW!!! I love 💗 ancient recipes found, it is the closest to time traveling we can get.

[@KlaudiusL]

They invented the emojis 🍯 🐝

[@Twocat5side]

🍯🐝

[@thatonedog819]

That would actually be a really cute idea - have an accent wall in a kitchen...or maybe the back splash? Of your favorite family recipes. It would also keep us from losing my grandpa's pumpkin pie recipe every year 😂

[@banjo8975]

This papyrus scroll contains a recipe for pasta

[@TheSuperHumanHimself]

No you mean spaghetti?

[@ShinyDiversity]

@@TheSuperHumanHimselfNYEH HEH HEH!!!

[@TheSuperHumanHimself]

@@ShinyDiversity NYEH HEH HEH INDEED

[@TheSuperHumanHimself]

It is I the great papyrus

[@NinjaMaster1]

Anyone notice the funny smiley face in the top right ¼ of the page?

[@ahmadramzy2716]

Egyptian here, studied Egyptology AMA

[@KrakatonMain]

I love doing calligraphy, ESPECIALLY with runes. I even make my own ciphers from time to time. I also use both parchment AND papyrus for my works. It's really cool to see someone make a video about a craft they made that's similar to stuff I've done. I don't really see many scribes or calligraphers on social media or KZbin, so this is a pleasant surprise

[@terminatedaccount8750]

I create symbols for reading writing. It's faster to read then letters. Symbols hold more info too.

[@Kira_Martel]

Oh man you're missing a whole community out there. Calligraphy is actually pretty big on social media, especially Instagram.

[@KrakatonMain]

@@Kira_Martel I thought I sent a reply when I first read this, but I guess not. I wanted to ask what accounts those are, since I do have an Instagram account, but I rarely post or even scroll there. It'd be nice to start putting my calligraphy on there like I once considered, and to follow other calligraphers as well.

[@Kira_Martel]

@@KrakatonMain Let me know if you can see this reply.

[@solomonspade67]

Cringe af

[@ElliLavender]

Wow, your copy looks absolutely amazing!

[@KHTimeProtecter]

Does this have an official translation? I really want to try my hand at making this.

[@Solid_Punch]

Me too

[@velvetbutterfly]

I would use Google, not a YT comment. Look up "recipe for incense" from whatever the full name of the temple was

[@mariemelansongundy-vx4ox]

Simple picto', beautiful. Translates to all.

[@TalsBadKidney]

Murray Gell-mann insisted he spoke Mayan and it drove Feynman nuts

[@deus_ex_machina_]

But when asked to demonstrate, he professed Gell-Mann amnesia.

[@kiyoshi3892]

That is more beautiful when you understand ✨

[@0therun1t21]

You made that copy by hand? If so it's very nice work.

[@stephanieg5566]

Very nice copy! Looks awesome!

[@mossystonesubs]

We want the incense recipe dude!

[@sebione3576]

I can see that eyeballs with mascara and storks standing on little islands were popular scents back in those days.

[@kingfanfanfirst6474]

Duuuude you forgot to give up the recipe!!

[@ai6894]

Now those _bit_ _o'_ _honey_ candies I ate hit different. ❤🍯 🍬

[@germantutoring]

how cool, can you show us how to translate the whole recipe?

[@francescahernandez6684]

*him saying papyrus summoning the whole undertale fandom*

[@ShinyDiversity]

There you are 😅

[@jorgeromero4680]

I would like to have the recipe please in our modern language

[@niku..]

The name isn't bijat but /biˈjat/. That's in the international phonetic alphabet where /j/ is pronounced like in . Also is just the Egyptologist pronunciation of the word not the actual Egyptian pronunciation. It's de4ived from the consonants of the word since Ancient Egyptian was written without vowels like Semitic languages still are

[@Sondergarden]

if only modern scientists would be so graceful in assigning names

[@NobleStranger69]

It will be for all Humanity throughout time, a picture is worth a thousand words.

[@tonyhedgewolf]

But... where do we get the recipe?

[@Magrijack]

It’s right there. Translate, b*tch.😅

[@Maatkara1000]

We don't know what half of the ingredients translate to, since they have not been found in any other recipe, so we can't replicate the perfume

[@Mrqwerty2109]

Humans now: Honey, the sweet nectar Humans then: 🐝🏺

[@zam6877]

"If you are vegan, you can substitute the honey for palm syrup"

[@Superabound2]

Imagine walking into a kitchen and all the recipes are just written all over the walls

[@Tomartyr]

fun fact: the English alphabet is, in large part, actually a distant descendant of Egyptian Hieroglyphics

[@germantutoring]

how?

[@Tomartyr]

@@germantutoring iirc it goes: Ancient Egyptian > Proto Sinaitic > Phoenician > Ancient Greek > Latin > English

[@deltap6967]

The A is the shape of an ox's head when looking upsidedown

[@Tomartyr]

@@deltap6967 yeah kinda weird they rolled it onto the side where it doesn't look like an Ox's head anymore

[@deltap6967]

@@Tomartyr I think it's faster to carve / write? Plus it's may be to distinguish between A and V

[@marthaperdew]

I absolutely love this!!

[@Guhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh]

Imagine being in chemistry class back then and pulling out an entire fucking wall 😭😭😭

[@TheGalacticSeraphine]

Did anyone else recognize the words... **Papyrus?** I AM THE GGGGREAT PAPYRUS!

[@youngwang97]

It's laid out like a modern recipe. With a childhood story and the actual recipe at the very end

[@PintuMahakul]

👍 Wonderful video art work. Very informative sharing. Thank you very much for sharing.

[@hazzard77]

I think that's a beehive hanging under a branch, not a pot.

[@EdgyShooter]

Slightly concerned by the look of Egyptian bees 😅

[@EmmaChapman-h5s]

Out of all the hieroglyphics I know that one the best. We went to the museum semi regularly growing up. There was an Egyptian exhibit and my sister became obsessed. We got a pamphlet with the alphabet she started memorizing and they had a program or something at the museum where you could hieroglyph your name. My sister's name, Beth, was just the hieroglyph bit, so she wrote and carved it absolutely everywhere.

[@manuel.camelo]

Seriously imagine typing/writing all of that..

[@perkins1439]

And if you move over to the next section it has the recipe for Skippy

[@Gary-i1s]

I love those original Egyptians,they've taught the world so much

[@averykleon]

Traditional chinese is also written from top to bottom right to left.

[@redfishbluefish4973]

“…it’s a copy I made myself.” Bro thought he could subtly flex on our subconscious.

[@stevesmith9617]

Sir... I need to know the pictograph for... "You have found a tiger where you were not expecting a tiger..."

[@DowntownTasty]

Definitely saw a smiley face on there 😂

[@mitsuomits9077]

Love the little bee that came near the pot... I'd like to think that she came to recover her stolen honey by herself.😂

[@benjaminmorris4962]

The best part of hieroglyphics is that they usually look like children's drawings too

[@VNCHMuonNam0325]

it looks beautiful

[@supritch]

You are so clever!

[@cat_city2009]

"let's see, what's next. Uhh...bird, bird, eye, camel, bee, weird star looking thing. Got it."

[@NegashAbdu]

A picture speaks a thousand words.

[@Warmaka]

"Hey do we need to add the musk before or after we boil the water lilies?" "Uh, hold on, I'll check the wall."

[@winterrose7094]

The first five columns of hieroglyphics is just a blog about a priest's cat. You can skip that to get to the actual recipe

[@charlestait5303]

She needed her phone to call her dentist about her new dentures.😂

[@mannygutierrez7654]

I love how they make the stinger huge to make it very clear they're talking about a bee 😂

[@candicemitchell6093]

From what I understand, the Japanese character for happiness depicts in very basic form a single woman underneath a roof. The character for chaos is *2* woman underneath a roof. 😂

[@ModernDayRenaissanceMan]

I wanted to know how to make it & what it smelled like etc. Not worried that a bee is the symbol. Cmon mannnnn!

[@FirstLast-pt7bm]

If humanity had to start over then i guess this is the writing system we would come up with

[@mr.flibblessumeriantransla5417]

I always love when we find cute or humorous things in ancient scripts or languages. One of my favorites is Sumerian word for a lion: _piriĝ_ pronounced like “piɾiŋ” or “biɾiŋ” (IPA spelling). Such a cute sounding word for a ferocious predator.

[@SomethingImpromptu]

I stay burnin that Kyphi. *Ayylmao meme in the style of an Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph*.

[@josedavidbetancourtpichard6816]

**bonetrousle starts playing**

[@ShinyDiversity]

Finally XD

[@nevaidos]

My favourite hieroglyph is from the Ptolemaic Period. It's a man riding two giraffes. I have only seen it in indexes, never in use but oh man is it great. Ptolemaic hieroglyphs are wild.

[@KieranReed729]

omg theyre talking in emojis

[@hovercraft313]

This called icons easy to write , understand and simple😊

[@Menscraft]

I've been to that room! It's very nice

[@whenimmanicimgodly4228]

Bit looks like a crab smoking a joint and looking longingfully into the distance

[@Roshami_2]

Sans: paps why are you now a scroll

[@matthewellisor5835]

"A serpent guard, a Horus guard, and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet. It is a tense moment. The serpent guard's eyes glow. The Horus guard's beak glistens. The Setesh guard's... nose drips." ::uproarious laughter::