Why did King Tut have a flat head?

Artificial cranial deformation, or head binding, is a practice carried out by cultures all over the world, and throughout time. Dr. Robert Martin talked to us about how the tradition was implemented by figures of high status in Ancient Egypt.
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[@zenitsuagatsuma5837]

"Why was king tut's head flat" Me: Incest The video: Head binding Me: Head Binding

[@LaLadybug]

Lmao literally

[@momojaykins]

💀💀

[@b.valentine5283]

He had a ton of deformities that were certainly caused by generations of incest, too. 1 or 2 generations of incest are likely to be unnoticeable, but more than that can be very detrimental to the resulting babys health

[@happyhempress6991]

I literally just said the same thing

[@msbrighteyez6652]

🤣🤣

[@PikaPetey]

king tut had a flat head cause he did bitchin head spins when break dancing.

[@ragnkja]

Or was the ability to do bitchin head spins when break dancing the reason why his head was bound to give it that shape?

[@PikaPetey]

yes, for bitchn spins

[@pph192]

Or maybe somebody just dropped him when he was a baby and then went on like...yeah, flat heads are so beautiful, didn't you know it? In fact they are trending in [somewhere else]

[@ariellafrankel1502]

break dancing? more like break backing with scoliosis. XD

[@fancydarlin1]

Pikapetey Animations anyone else hear Pietry and Litttlefoot? "You have a nice, flat head, Flathead."

[@OliverBlomster]

And here's the real answer: He was a gamer and his head got dented from him wearing his headset so much

[@opppoaaaafive8224]

If he was a gamer his head would just bind from the both sides of ear as it would mostly suppress the sides of the ear rather than the head.

[@OliverBlomster]

@@opppoaaaafive8224 It- It was a joke...

[@mrmadeuquit5280]

Not original my guy 👎

[@OliverBlomster]

@@mrmadeuquit5280 No? You think I copied someone elses comment? Yikes

[@Darnk715]

@@OliverBlomster lmao you copied his comment

[@mrmadeuquit5280]

Looks like he's been wearing his gaming headset for too long

[@ItsJustKaya]

That's Tyler 1 ancestor shalt ammun

[@oorjasaxena8990]

Their fashion was next level. We change clothes, they change skulls.

[@yorumcuyorumcu89]

these days everyone is so PLASTIC cause they all have surgeries everybody looks like eachother LOL

[@Elisaorso]

There is artificial cranial deformation's technic and there is GENETIC elongated skulls. You can not create extra cranial matter. Check out for yourself. We have non- homo sapiens skeleton in front of our eyes and nobody is talking about them. A much more interesting topic than skull binding in my opinion. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2e3o36Eea2Ji5o

[@o0oo0o70]

@@yorumcuyorumcu89 everyone?

[@amazingdollart4676]

I don't believe they bound their heads, mine is shaped like that genetically

[@ellaharris8986]

@@yorumcuyorumcu89 a bit of a reach to use the word everyone, most of the people that are so called “plastic” are celebs or instagram models. a lot of stuff is also edited online and they look nothing like they do in pics vs in person. a lot of people are still natural.

[@sabbath2112]

me at 1:30am: i should be sleeping also me: hmmm, why DOES king tut have a flat head? 🧐

[@randalthor647]

Me lol

[@blaqsynth]

Are you for fucking real, it was 1:30 am when i started watching it 😳😳😳

[@ashleyallen2180]

blaqsynth same lowkey had me shook

[@fuzzysharks2437]

@@blaqsynth its 1:27AM for me rn... creepy almost 1:30

[@jagcf]

ME. TOO.

[@Steve_V1066]

"Head binding has no negative impact..." You've never seen one of these folks trying hats on, have you?

[@ruvedita8412]

Good one 😂

[@ericcrabtree6245]

Perfect head shape if you want to wear your hat like Ducky Dale.

[@MartineH1]

This gentleman is so nice and clear in his explanatios, I loved hearing him.

[@JodBronson]

Only intelligent people can learn how to appreciate tones and more. While 'others' think it's annoying because it triggers their low intellectual delay.

[@shalomcohen1309]

@@JodBronson I agree with you and Giselle. Besides his being an expert, I found this gentleman to be completely engaging and delightful at once. His intellect and “calm joy” are a rare pleasure in our new world of cynicism and noisy ignorance. One needn’t be loud, giddy or crass to make their case. I appreciate both of your comments.

[@JodBronson]

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[@ajjajk]

Please put some respect on the king statue by painting him the right dark colour, round nose and full lips, this is such a disrespect.

[@JodBronson]

@@ajjajk - Crazy people, see crazy things! LMFAO

[@jasmineanastasia7258]

He speakin' in cursive

[@sdoaiza]

LOOOOOOL

[@bklynoctorious498]

Chit chit cherioo mi lord lik a cup of tea

[@billolsen4360]

reminds me of what Bart Simpson had to write 10 times on the blackboard, "Cursive writing doesn't mean what I thought it meant"

[@soupsgord]

What a great comment!

[@CHEVYedsf]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one!! 😆

[@FullOfGuides]

Makes perfect sense, they did this in secret because the pharaohs were venerated almost as gods by the people so of course they had to show up in public with different skull shapes and the people were like "Ohhhhh wow, look at them, they are demigods!"

[@sloth6480]

And even today people use the ancient Egyptian royalty deformed/cone skull to prove they are of alien origins...

[@danteishimura9189]

@@sloth6480 You also see it today in places like India and South American countries for begging purposes from tourists. If you don't know then you'd just see a parent with a deformed looking child being homeless and hand them cash. Sadly its the parents that do this to the children to begin with.

[@viablue8143]

That’s what I was thinking too. People weren’t supposed to know about how they achieved the different head shape, they were just supposed to see it and stare in awe that the royals truly are different, so they really must be gods! Writing it down for someone to find would destroy the whole purpose of it…

[@Mor2gain_760]

@@viablue8143 I knew a family with two or three boys who had the head shape of Tut's mummy lol, mommy & they seemed to be natural... I figured from birth & getting stuck...?

[@viablue8143]

@@Mor2gain_760 It’s possible, the Egyptians must’ve gotten the idea from somewhere… Don’t quote me on what I’m about to say, but I think there may have been a pharaoh who was born with that sort of head-shape, and they just rolled with it and said it’s because he’s a god that his head is like that. And then after that it became a tradition and the mark of a god. I think I may have heard or read this somewhere, but again, don’t quote me on this.

[@molejaveel9051]

when you start losing hair and get bold, you discover the real shape of your head and then you start watching videos like this.. and thats why im here..

[@averdibello]

I loved the expression on Emily's face as the Professor described the movement of the baby's skull as it passed through the birth cannel. Obviously, she has never given birth ... And, after his explanation ... she never will!!! LOL

[@lishan4657]

And good for her she knows now not then when it's too late lol

[@MistressGlowWorm]

King Tut is just quietly observing the whole thing.

[@felicitydowns6651]

😂😂😂

[@Chuked]

Lmao

[@abril6567]

lol

[@kingtut472]

Yess. Yes I am.

[@marcoalassus]

With his big hips ,claw foot ,big boobies and all KING TUT LIVED FOR LESS THEN 25 years he was dumb and couldn’t even feed himself because his jaw line was deformed …

[@nftmonkey4506]

His hair is whiter than his shirt, holy moly

[@bklynoctorious498]

I was gonna hit like but that 333 i was like daammmmmmmnnnnnnnnn homie respect

[@blackrose_entle9959]

Looks like a wig🤭

[@brianarmstrong9098]

Watched with sunglasses!

[@shaunyjimenez9637]

HAHAHHA

[@dr.apollo4226]

SUP, David

[@Rozegolden]

I can listen to this man’s voice all day. So soothing.

[@humthappa7159]

Grandpa: people now are extrem with doing tattoo's and piercing we didn't do this thing back in the day People back in the day: HEAD BINDING

[@OfTheCoast1234567]

came here for king tut, got a lesson on birth

[@moonie406]

Emma well you had to learn some way

[@moonie406]

Emma remember to use protection :)

[@ASMauRi]

Sheluiop _ Omg😂😂😂 and btw I love the crybaby profile pic.

[@egg4038]

Emma XD true!

[@firecrapperXX]

i came as well

[@lizlaughlove101]

his voice makes this feel like the most interesting thing in the world

[@memobasy1191]

Sarcasm?

[@darthmaul4870]

liz ikr! He sounds like a nature channel narrator.

[@duchessedeberne3909]

I think he is Alan Rickmans uncle, he puts sexy in bones

[@user-ke5vf9mm5y]

Like yourself, then?

[@jecitivaz3097]

liz I know makes me wanna go to sleep

[@RealityAlwaysWins]

I like the old guy, usually elder scientists are so damning it's suffocating, but this chap seems to have intellect with a more down to earth and not extreme to accommodate the alien nonsense. I believe there's life in the solar system, but it's not like we imagine, it could be vastly different from us, our life was created by the right combinations at the right times and is unique, other life forms like us could be impossible to recreate.

[@jeanneblondewomanstamping9788]

Dr. Martin is so knowledgeable and articulate. It’s a pleasure to hear him.

[@v_keii4806]

Amazing how we can litteraly recreate what a king looked like 3,400 years ago and also know how he died, what diseases he had but yet we still have no cure for cancer.

[@Liz-yj6iy]

Paul Newfield -Pasadena, Ca. USA amazing how Tut was never black!

[@Liz-yj6iy]

Paul Newfield -Pasadena, Ca. USA you talk about idiots yet you must clearly not own a mirror 😂

[@Liz-yj6iy]

@@skychoyce9854 my people were never black You must be confused with the great Somali Empire or Kenya 😂

[@Marimarr59]

@@Liz-yj6iy take a DNA test and find out!

[@Liz-yj6iy]

@@Marimarr59 I've been taken a DNA test and it takes us back to our ancestors! Tiye, Amenhotep, Seti 😍

[@jackorion7157]

He was just trying to be level-headed

[@la1it44]

Jack Orion 😂😂

[@maddievanvliet6784]

Jack Orion there are cures for all cancers, but some a just terminal or people don’t have an impact by it. Sorry but I have ocd👍

[@ydaphuck__youlyin6978]

Jack Orion I CANNOT 💀😂

[@pessimisticpantomath9827]

Tut’s father appeared to have went through the the same process, but still wanted his son’s head flattened, too. Anyone level-headed would not want that.

[@angelad.9853]

Go home

[@KreeTerry]

I’d love to see more from this guy! He has an awesome energy and so much knowledge. Awesome video!

[@saorihirai4492]

In my country, we do something similar where we put the baby’s head on a flat hard surface and prevent the baby from sleeping on its side or moving too much for the first few months (or year) to get a perfectly round head shape. We don’t bind anything but we do try “influence” the head shape to be round and not long or anything.

[@Ummmmmmmm841]

In our country, the older generation did the opposite, they tend to keep the baby's head flat at the back because it was the aesthetic standard. And now I have a head that is flat as a brick......I wish I have a round head

[@DatComedyBoy]

king tut deadass look like amber rose

[@TheMsMarmot]

Lol my guy

[@davidsolt9669]

Darnell Dockett #Darneezy #RetireGang #Nine-0 and king tut was thicc too just like her.

[@mrscountrygurl86]

Darnell Dockett #Darneezy #RetireGang #Nine-0 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@spineda7495]

Darnell Dockett #Darneezy #RetireGang #Nine-0 BRUUUHHH no u didnt 😭😭😭

[@JAZZYGURL7571jpb]

💀 Aaaaand I died.

[@Sophie-um4vz]

That dude is hella passionate, it’s contagious

[@Elisaorso]

There is artificial cranial deformation's technic and there is GENETIC elongated skulls. You can not create extra cranial matter. Check out for yourself. We have non- homo sapiens skeleton in front of our eyes and nobody is talking about them. A much more interesting topic than skull binding in my opinion. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2e3o36Eea2Ji5o

[@eyeball7465]

My son was poorly when he was born had septicemia, which his mother died from many years later as a point of coincidence, but as the nurse didn't turn his head frequently his head became flat on one side, looked funny. Had to keep his headpointed the other way in the cot when he came home, to even it out. I did this by putting photographs of his mother and me on the inside of the cot as I read that babies look for their parents eyes. It used to break my heart having to push his head down the other way to stretch the muscles, I don't think it hurt him but he sure didn't like it

[@camhadland6227]

a side of my head was actually flat for this reason until recently (about 4 ish years ago during a mid puberty growth spurt). They forgot to flip me over in the oven (incubator) and so that's how it was. It actually made the top of my head fairly flat too, so I could balance stuff on the top with basically no effort until it too puffed out. The human body is so freaking weird!

[@MissCaraMint]

I have a dent in my head.

[@eyeball7465]

@@camhadland6227 I know and I swear none of the books on parenting tell you to make sure you don't flatten the kids head lol

[@eyeball7465]

@@MissCaraMint I do too, I got hit with a brick wen I was about 16 and I got a bloody great dent there now lol

[@paige6029]

my mom used to rub my sister’s head in the back when she was younger, cause her head was long

[@Lurtzification]

That was short and interesting. Awesome video. To the point, informative. Love it.

[@user-sq1lo6kx6x]

His voice sounds like how corduroy fabric feels

[@karenramnath9993]

Good description!

[@view1st]

He sounds like he's had one cigar too many.

[@saraj.7743]

What an amazing way to describe it. I totally understand and fully agree.

[@riot_._]

wait you’re actually right💀

[@galadriel3134]

Spot on!

[@kristalrej]

""who you calling pinhead, pinhead?"

[@xtrashocking]

How come this comment doesn't have more likes?

[@kimanicoates7987]

ayy lmao That reference works so well...

[@piarossi4555]

XShock I like that comment VERY much! It made me snort.

[@ElijahShakeerEley6243]

Omg

[@thefuck7175]

Kristal R who the fuck is calling me a pinhead?

[@kuckookaren8395]

So this just proves that paintings we’ve found of humanoids that we assumed were aliens were actually just head binded people😳 still believe in aliens tho

[@zazlar4228]

I was always so baffled by this recreation of King Tut when his depictions on the walls of his tomb and his bust are black/brown ... The head binding was an African tribal process .... I seriously don't understand why they try to make Egypt seem so mysterious when many of the answers are right in Africa.

[@writerinprogress]

Fair play to this guy; he did kind of say "I can see why some people might jump to the conclusions of ancient civilisations being aliens," rather than flat-out saying "if they spent their time reading more books and developing some critical thinking skills, they wouldn't end up swallowing this alien cobblers hook, line and sinker."

[@donnadanielsen9411]

😂

[@greenroom8550]

he explains things so well

[@cim6864]

@Lauren Lewis even Bible tells a part of this story

[@cim6864]

@Lauren Lewis they translated it and lost part of its meaning. The word they translated "God" in the original one is "Elohim" it's plural and stands for a group of "people", first part of the Bible tells the story of Yahweh one of the Elohim, but they translated all the names with just singular "God". In some chapters they even describes some kind of advanced technology similar to ufo's etc... (sorry if I made mistakes I don't speak English so well)

[@Draugonauv]

But that's the exact opposite of what it sounds like he's saying, in no way does he say NO aliens did not have a part in it. Actually he goes to point out that many people believe that YES aliens are a part of this he even gives alien related evidence by referring to the nazka lines

[@toast_art8004]

Historians: how did king turt get a flat head? Me, an intellectual: *B O N K*

[@Elisaorso]

There is artificial cranial deformation's technic and there is GENETIC elongated skulls. You can not create extra cranial matter. Check out for yourself. We have non- homo sapiens skeleton in front of our eyes and nobody is talking about them. A much more interesting topic than skull binding in my opinion. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2e3o36Eea2Ji5o

[@DefinatelyNotAFireBender]

Yeah probably just a childhood avalanche accident.

[@BBWahoo]

Kek

[@snuffbby602]

KEK

[@doloresreynolds8145]

@@Elisaorso They are homo sapien skulls. You are misunderstanding. Did he not say that they had extracted and tested genetic material from one, and it was normal?

[@Jim54_]

Dr. Martin is great at unintentional asmr

[@hippopotomostrosesquippeda5804]

Forget the flat head, that dent on his head is enormous

[@oceansea799]

Omg the baby's eyes were popping out from his head wrap Soo tight. Yikes

[@chaton897]

Elly O what

[@EK-gt2xf]

@Elly O wtf does that have to do with race? And there's nothing beautiful about binding a baby's head.

[@piggypalsminionmartin865]

What when

[@mrbiscuits001]

@@EK-gt2xf she deleted it what did she say?

[@newwavepop]

yeah i noticed that one in the pic, definitely did not look healthy.

[@stuartwray6175]

This is like a breath of fresh air. It's history told without melodramatic effect. No thunderous drums or busy editing.

[@Martin-tn5lm]

I agree. This is a real scholar - the boring truth. We're Apes, nothing more nor less though we can take a bow in that we have speech, writing and hold the full knowledge that we're going to die after no more than circa 10 decades - hence Religion and fictious "afterlife".

[@tami1796]

Thank you for sharing your videos

[@vega1349]

That was really interesting. I think the elongated skull is elegant in combination with the halo-like hair styles, I can see why it became popular.

[@CuleChick11]

I remember being told in school that some of the Egyptian Pharaohs had some sort of genetic anomaly, possibly caused by inbreeding that caused them to have weird heads. I never knew people commonly changed their head shapes on purpose. That's so neat!

[@moonflower813]

Cule Chick Well, Ancient Egyptian royalty did practice incest out the wazoo. After all, Tutankhamun's parents were brother and sister, and he married his half-sister. So I too chalked up the weird head shape to incest. The fact it may have been deliberate is fascinating.

[@emmab4441]

sunburst223 It could be that someone was born with that head shape due to incest, and they thought it looked interesting and wanted to recreate it with other children?

[@jamesevans6332]

The incest may not have caused the head shape by itself, but according to an analysis of Tut's physical remains, it did cause his immune system to be incredibly weak, his bones were super brittle and unable to heal properly, it gave him woman hips and semi-boobs, a cleft palate on his lip and overall, a shorter lifespan. His bone problem was so severe that he ended up using a cane for the rest of his life, and his immune system was so weak that when he got malaria, his body basically stopped functioning and he died quite shortly after.

[@chelseacooper117]

DJ Trevi white people... This has noting to do with race. You sound ignorant .

[@chelseacooper117]

DJ Trevi wanna be DJ

[@ElectrologyNow]

I love that young woman's reaction when he explained child-birth. I think she'll take a pass!

[@gmoo84]

I loved that 😂

[@gamernation1400]

you really think she's never gonna let a guy fuck her?

[@nohandlethanx]

Me too, it was so natural and she looked genuinely fascinated.

[@DD-xt6vo]

@@nohandlethanx She really had no clue at all. Not sure about him...

[@jessieqk12]

@@gamernation1400 you know nothing about sex and reproduction, do you?

[@tricorvus2673]

Dr Robert Martin is friking amazing

[@Killerqueen69420]

"Mother, why did you do this to me?" - King Tut

[@dsantiago1000]

“I like ya cut G” *Slap*

[@eduardonazario6750]

💀

[@shxnicexx]

LOL

[@EM-uf1kc]

OUTA POCKET LMAO 💀

[@ghristophermyers666]

Lmao

[@surzaw3987]

@Chrinillan Jc I beg you’re pardon 😧

[@redspud6017]

Being a leader of an ancient civilisation requires a level-headed person .

[@melanieshearman4678]

john foley groan

[@melvinswann6682]

@@melanieshearman4678 u

[@instagamrr]

ooooooooooooooooooooooooh yesssss

[@fynntasticmovienight]

My fav explanation so far xd

[@TummyHissell]

:U

[@hadirmaamouri4204]

In my country Tunisia , the older generation used to bind babies arms to their bodies for a short period of time so the child would grow up with more pronounced shoulders if it's a male and another binding type if it's female to make her figure more shapely and I know some people who told me that it was done to them and it worked well without any disfigurement .. I'm watching this and thinking how weird of a custom it is and it just hit me that we have a similar thing .. how fascinating

[@WhiteDevil-du8ne]

Tut had several deformities, including a club foot that prevented him from being able to walk without a cane.

[@hutchhutchins]

Her reaction to him describing a baby’s skull passing through the pelvis is the correct reaction. 😖

[@bouncycastle955]

It's genuinely amazing that we're aware of this and our species hasn't died out

[@LL-gx3yj]

@@bouncycastle955 well, ask ur mom

[@bouncycastle955]

@@LL-gx3yj ask her what? I didn't ask a question lol

[@view1st]

It's one of the miracles of life and evolution.

[@Chuked]

@@view1st hey scammer

[@katiekawaii]

Super in love with this Dr now. He's so damn likable. I want him to teach me everything he knows.

[@Alicia-jz8lg]

katie kawaii for real though

[@MoralesGirl4]

I so admire people like him.

[@xMyPointlessChannelx]

katie kawaii me too!

[@AqierDesigns]

Oh I bet he'll teach you everything he knows who wouldn't teach you

[@aaphades4179]

katie kawaii I can teach you a few things 😎 kachow 🚗

[@bocarganao9935]

This trait actually naturally occurs among some East Africans populations (Nile valley inhabitant generally speaking, a mix of Nilotic and back-to-Africa from west Eurasia around 22000ya, not counting later Neolithic farmers admixture) I myself and several other family members present that exact same trait (flat top, backward projecting occipital area with a prominent flat forehead) without ever been « head-binded »

[@sxy307280]

Just sad to think how many children suffered through such senseless torture.

[@stephaniejohnson7679]

I feel like I just watched a woman decide not to have children 😂

[@alyssa393]

rightfully so

[@LL-gx3yj]

@@alyssa393 wtf?

[@FireCaT-]

@@alyssa393 what?

[@EchoJ]

@@alyssa393 her face at 1:47 says it all🤣😂🤣

[@sosmooth13]

Soon as she saw him turn that head she was like “hell naw”

[@MUtley-rf8vg]

Apparently those ancient Egyptian tomb paintings are a lot more literal than people give them credit for being. Like the painting that shows how large limestone blocks were transported by lubricating the sand beneath the sled. The truth is on the wall.

[@celinak5062]

M. Utley +

[@patrickmccurry1563]

So Tut and ilk were 12 feet tall as depicted on monuments? ;) No one records things exactly as they are, and few are so innovative as to not have anything real from their environment in their stories.

[@celinak5062]

Patrick McCurry Well no, but metaphorically speaking they were twice as important as everyone else.

[@patrickmccurry1563]

Celina k That's what I meant. We can't take artwork as literal depictions of events. That means it would not be incompetent to assume some extremely unusual feature was metaphorical when it was literal.

[@SuperMinecrafter200]

The model of king tuts head looks like a little kid who got brought to bring your kid to work day and is waiting for his mom to stop talking to her coworkers

[@Mcflirts]

Well this is the most interesting video I never looked up

[@emailnolongerinuse3157]

With the reason for the secrecy of making it so different in kings/royal would be to say "look!he's a king! he looks like the gods!" sort of thing maybe?

[@rachelbrenner4092]

E. Battle. Think of it like plastic surgery, no one wants to admit getting it done.

[@MMandGlitter]

Probably. If they are drawing all of their gods and goddesses with these elongated heads, and then all of a sudden the Pharaohs have the same head shape, that strengthens the idea that they are in fact part god to the general public. People would better and easier accept their Pharaohs if they had "physical proof" that they were part god of goddess (which is what Pharaohs were believed to be at that time).

[@obsoletepowercorrupts]

I can't believe how narrow-minded some of the jokes here are. Tut! Tut!

[@movers9165]

Indeed

[@XenaTron7]

Lol

[@echowit]

That's so bad it's good.

[@bjewel3751]

You could almost say the jokes here are... flat?

[@jaylindr3723]

These jokes not it. I think imma *head* out

[@vranco]

What a great doctor.

[@cakhas5052]

Good information.

[@naraferalina2308]

Why does every person in these video's, have such cool clothing? He has a tie with a DNA pattern!

[@PASSPORTKING2106]

Thats badass

[@keithbridges2144]

nothing "cool" here

[@robfig974]

Fuckin nerds if you ask me

[@male6089]

Cool clothing > one fucking tie

[@dr.apollo4226]

I didn’t even notice that. Very cool.

[@EmilyYebananapie]

He kind of sounds like snape

[@starhill6792]

Emily Ye Why do I agree.

[@OctoberRust777]

Emily Ye Mista Pota

[@weetardedcat2112]

Emily Ye snape Is sexy he is not

[@thecat5819]

+Ashley Uchiha Your profile picture perfects this.

[@weetardedcat2112]

The Cat why thank you very much

[@monke3719]

Bro his head flat because somebody took a baseball bat and went BONK

[@megabarb]

His voice sounds like how a car ride on a smooth road feels. Tell me I'm wrong.

[@cleodello]

Humans are so weird. :/

[@syntacticalcrab]

I was just thinking that at the end with the alien theories! I feel like humans are weird enough that we don't really need alien influence to do weird things like this >.>

[@moonie406]

Cleodel I'm a llama and I absolutely agree with you

[@kennie39]

right... cats are way cooler

[@fasad195]

Y'all are humans. Right?

[@chanyeols6thstewardessgirl684]

Fizza Asad Maybe ☺

[@Therran91]

What a lovely old man, I really like the way he is talking and answering questions!

[@marcv2648]

Yes, but he's wrong about everything. Brien Forester has a KZbin channel. He's had lots of the Nazca skulls DNA tested. Their population originates from the black sea area.

[@Therran91]

@@marcv2648 Oh

[@saddam6059]

BRITANNIA RULES THE WAVES

[@DD-xt6vo]

Lovely smile he has, I think he's just a schoolboy on the truant...

[@jessieqk12]

@@marcv2648 I don’t count you as a reputable source.

[@dbuck2862]

IT was a african tradition head binding many other didn't do it during that time. But Tut looks was african black & egyptian as many pharaoh of that time. 6:46 about the alien head are still odd due to some of them didn't have similar DNA as humans of that time or now.

[@peterszasz7826]

Them headphones got him.

[@jaredwilliamson8063]

It's kinda crazy how close this looks to what we believe aliens head shapes look like.

[@bartschwartz9233]

They have not pulled DNA from The so called greys so it’s a hidden lie at best

[@anorien1]

I think it's interesting how so many cultures head bind and I don't think it's strapping them all to a board. They went for a certain look and if the 'gods' like the pharaohs had a certain look others would emulate it like any fashion. Whether the beginnings is something like the Grey's who knows?

[@mlawless89]

Yaaaaaasssss its almost like they are trying to look like aliens ..... I believe in aliens

[@momentous4321]

no one knows what real aliens look like they could be one of us humans

[@100Creed]

@@mlawless89 I mean its basicly impossible that there i no intelligent life or even any kind of life form besides on earth out in the universe. But well the fermi paradoxon might be true.

[@marlilauren4539]

because jeffree star dropped him in the shipment process

[@hhasyimah]

Shit best thing I've read all day

[@afra6602]

Marli LMFAOOO I CANT

[@thederpylemon]

Marli nice

[@marlilauren4539]

yeah I'm pretty proud of myself

[@nerzzzz4]

Omfg hahaha

[@mikeross14]

He has a thing for the fifties,and loved that throaty sound.Chevrolet was crappy overhead valve motoheads at the time Plus it looked cool in his chariot!

[@legendarybelt]

5:31 Lower Pic: Me thinking how I looked in the photo Upper Pic: Me in the photo

[@foureyeddragon00]

I love how this guy is so polite about the aliens question. Also, my dad has a super flat head, apparently because my grandmother let him lay on his back too much as a baby. 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@jodiepalmer2404]

My head has a flat back but that's only because of mild cerebral palsy when I was born.

[@bash547]

Or your dad is an alien 👽

[@anoukjordi907]

My neighbours baby used to have this because he just wouldn't sleep any other way than on his back so he had to wear a helmet while sleeping so his head would stay round. But he's a teenager now and as far as I know, his head is round again.

[@voodoodudu2547]

I was wondering if that was true or not, the back of my mom's head is flat and she said it's cuz her mom didn't turn her.

[@Zlimeboyjared]

@@anoukjordi907 so how do you get it round or what haircut should you get

[@lavenderthreat4435]

It's because he was delivered with FedEx.

[@MariePriss]

Fishy Films 😂😂

[@lander9741]

😰😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@thecyberninja2708]

ow god

[@Flawfuu]

Fishy Films &0

[@Flawfuu]

Fishy Films o

[@nayabfatima8223]

Imagine getting bullied all your life for your weird head and centuries later people are still talking about your head ...no Rest In Peace

[@pandapanda3667]

This was intresting i am now a subscriber

[@Angel.I.Gonzalez]

Dr. Robert is such a charismatic person! I really enjoyed listening to him.

[@MA-zg2pz]

😶Wut? Charismatic? He was so monotoned and unimpressed with his own conversation. But very smart!

[@Holyheadspace]

@@MA-zg2pz I was thinking the same thing lol, he ran out of breathe with some sentences. Tells me he lives in his head most of the time

[@dak-o-lanturn]

@@Holyheadspace Why make an inference like that when you don’t know the guy. His task was literally to explain whats happening when she asked questions.

[@JodBronson]

Only intelligent people can learn how to appreciate tones and more. While 'others' think it's annoying because it triggers their low intellectual delay.

[@danlienheart1719]

@@JodBronson get over yourself loser you aren't smarter than everyone else

[@MossyMozart]

Good gravy! I never saw bound feet without the shoes or bindings on before. No wonder those women couldn't walk. I wonder if it was painful all the time or just when trying to stand. All my empathy goes out to the women who had to endure this torture.

[@Nekogal21]

I know this is a year late but yes it definitely would have been painful. Often the feet used to start to smell, get infected and sometimes went necrotic. There are women in China who still are alive and had this done to their feet in the 40's and they said how painful it was. There was I think a documentary on it on KZbin somewhere about this practice

[@OiishiNoAnko]

@Mensanaincorporesano yes but they would never expose their unbound feet. I had the met old grannies with these feet and it is not the actual feet but the way they walk unsteadily (dying from pain) that looks delicate like a leaf in the wind that was romanticised.

[@gargantuan6241]

Hey, I have a great idea, let's deform our craniums.

[@murphylaw7106]

This tradition still goes on today via the Gamer Dent. Although it is usually unintentional but it has the same affect as it’s predecessor. The most notable example of this is Tyler1.

[@DeboB375]

I should complete my physics chapter Also me : it'll be interesting to know why king Tut had flat head .

[@crymeariver2122]

By the time they grew up, they learned to accept it as part of their culture

[@rickrickster7448]

What's interesting is how the modern translation of the egyptian hyrogliphics has changed over time. The 'u' in kings Tut's name would have been pronounced with an elongated 'o' in ancient egypt,, therefore the real pronounciation of his name is 'tooot' so he's actually king Toot.

[@neon-kitty]

This really comes down to the language you speak. In English, the u in "Tut" is pronounced like in the English word "hut" but in other languages, like German, it's actually pronounced like in the English word "boot". There are lots of ancient Egyptian names which are pronounced and/or spelled differently across different languages. For example, the German version of Ramesses is Ramses (roughly pronounced like Rumses) and the German version of Nefertiti is Nofretete. I think (but correct me if I'm wrong) these different interpretations came about because the Egyptians left out the vowels when writing a word so Egyptologists today have to guess which vowels would have been inserted where.

[@Primalxbeast]

rick rickster I wouldn't envy the teacher who had to teach a bunch of adolescents about king Toot.

[@rickrickster7448]

haha,, yup, was thinking the same thing. Especially if Bart Simpson was in the class!

[@MoonOffSpringC]

I personnally never understood why his name is pronounced this way in English. In French the "Tout" in Toutankhamon is pronounced "oo" like in "loop" not "u" like in "pup"

[@ThisOneCassie]

I mean his name is pronounced toot-en-cah-moon

[@WelziFC7]

Never in my life have I wondered this but KZbin told me that I should have.

[@march11stoneytony]

The picked the perfect guy to talk to the subject on

[@rc_3887]

King Tut is a great rapper name

[@yasminakhtar4188]

Lil Bilie lol

[@kameshimayama2195]

Lil Bilie so is lil bilie.

[@rc_3887]

Kenshin Tomoshima thanks 👍🏽

[@aeonianbeam8599]

Lil Bilie ikr lol

[@robolinoschmidt8676]

We wuz kangz n sheit

[@Xxbunianxrings]

When your teacher tells you to keep things in the back of your head

[@strawberryrhubarbpie]

Fascinating

[@jamesriddleberger3284]

it is interesting that the way of explaining this

[@buckybarnes3803]

oh my God those last friggin skulls -- now those were just too bizarre!

[@censusgary]

They blow my mind. I had no idea such people existed.

[@titanspirit7238]

Egyptians wanted to copy the head shape of their alien gods...

[@maxslither]

Shol'va

[@error.418]

Occam's Razor...

[@photosinensis]

Jaffa, kree!

[@Telecasta108]

Indeed O'Neil

[@maxslither]

impudence

[@konchy]

He was probably wearing headphones for too long

[@wompstopm123]

King tutt wore one of those wireless gaming headsets with the heavy batteries in them so he could develop a beautiful saddle shaped head like tyler 1

[@superjacksonfan12345]

Everyone here is arguing about whether the Egyptians were black or white when the Romans painted realistic paintings of them, showing them dark as night and white as beach sand. I don't see why we need to claim them for one race or another when they were so obviously a mix.

[@superjacksonfan12345]

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[@hengineer]

Penny Lane by the time of the Romans Alexander's army had gone through so there were also Macedonians.

[@gogo17s]

Nitra Mitra There features were that if North eastern African not caucus. They didn't have Anglo Saxon features not one ounce of the golden ration his skin was gold not olive and lips were full. He was a lighter skinned black man with coily hair similar to his sister/ wife.

[@DOlightfeet]

So the Romans were around during 1330 B.C.? ......SURE

[@SaladdinJS]

Erin Liggins yes

[@LuckDanko]

The amount of unnecessary suffering humans bring into themselves and their kids will never cease to amaze me.

[@katl3892]

Today we have plastic surgeries and tattoos.

[@Tinyvalkyrie410]

@@katl3892 yeah, but those are done by consenting adults to their own bodies often for very individualistic reasons. It’s different when you do it to a child who has no say in the matter purely because it’s considered culturally correct. That said, people do do things like pierce the ears of very young children, circumcising infants and doing unnecessary, purely cosmetic “reconstructive” surgery on intersex babies, and cosmetic orthodontia on kids.

[@katl3892]

@@Tinyvalkyrie410 I totally agree with second part of your comment, but plastic surgeries are common among children, for example ears surgeries are given as a present.

[@Tinyvalkyrie410]

@@katl3892 very true

[@katl3892]

@@Amselium which part of earth are YOU talking about? Since when children can't have cosmetic surgeries? It's very common and why it suppose to be illegal? With some surgeries you have to wait till they are fully developed, but ears surgeries are popular. And I'm not living in a third world country.

[@iranianintelligenceagency9337]

My brotha King Tut look like he boutta conceive a whole other head🤣🤣

[@snake555510]

When he was explaining how babies come out, she was like wow I aint having one of those ever :D

[@censusgary]

Here's a hypothesis for how (deliberate) cranial deformation got started: some babies have their heads sort of mashed out of shape by the birth process (especially in some situations, such as, for example, a forceps delivery). Those squished skulls will usually go back into a normal shape on their own with time. But what if people didn't know that, and they thought they had to use bandages or clamps or other forming devices to get a proper head shape? If that seemed to work for making heads look better, inevitably someone was bound to think they could improve on nature even more by going for a "beautiful" shape such as a cone or a cube or a pyramid.

[@ragnkja]

This would make sense, especially when combined with the cradle-boarding hypothesis.

[@Elisaorso]

There is artificial cranial deformation's technic and there is GENETIC elongated skulls. You can not create extra cranial matter. Check out for yourself. We have non- homo sapiens skeleton in front of our eyes and nobody is talking about them. A much more interesting topic than skull binding in my opinion. kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2e3o36Eea2Ji5o

[@wolffgang101]

when they first started talking and said about the feet being changed in China made my feet cringe

[@realtissaye]

Wolff Does your head cringe when they said Egyptians blinded their children's heads?

[@GamingXPOfficial]

Tissaye no just feel bad for the kids at NY school that have that

[@franklin7243]

Wolff it's called lotus feet to fit small shoes

[@SteakBaked99]

Maybe they were just like “ big head means big smarts “

[@raleighanderson7675]

the head is like a painting and its beauty like the mummy the reconstruction is sensational how did you do it again? Love Ägypten Kairo