1 00:00:01,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Speaker 1: Hey, everybody. Did you ever want to know how mummies 2 00:00:04,080 --> 00:00:06,960 Speaker 1: work and how you mummify a person? Well you can 3 00:00:07,040 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: learn if you listen to this one from March fifteenth. Hey, 4 00:00:10,560 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: look at that date, March fifteenth, twenty eleven. How mummies work. 5 00:00:19,360 --> 00:00:27,120 Speaker 2: Welcome to Stuff you Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio. 6 00:00:28,880 --> 00:00:31,680 Speaker 3: Hey, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Clark, There's 7 00:00:31,800 --> 00:00:34,840 Speaker 3: Charles W Chuck Bryant. We're about to do this stuff 8 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 3: you should know. Thang, Yeah, do you like that? I did? 9 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:39,800 Speaker 3: How you doing? Man? 10 00:00:40,280 --> 00:00:44,080 Speaker 1: Great? Now that I've switched out my foul smelling microphone cover? 11 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, this is actually take two, but it things nasty. 12 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:51,200 Speaker 3: I'm not getting near it, but can you trually imagine Chuck? Yeah, 13 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:55,280 Speaker 3: and something's future facted on the mic cover, the Peak 14 00:00:55,280 --> 00:00:55,920 Speaker 3: Clipper cover. 15 00:00:56,120 --> 00:00:59,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, weird. You know, in real studios it changes out 16 00:00:59,880 --> 00:01:00,400 Speaker 1: of it now and. 17 00:01:00,400 --> 00:01:03,720 Speaker 3: Then these things have been running for at least a year. 18 00:01:04,240 --> 00:01:08,160 Speaker 1: Fifty cents? All right, what's your chuck your sterling intro? 19 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:10,800 Speaker 3: Speaking of fifty cents, do you remember when we were 20 00:01:10,800 --> 00:01:12,800 Speaker 3: talking about fossils. 21 00:01:13,280 --> 00:01:13,400 Speaker 1: Oh? 22 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:16,440 Speaker 3: Yeah, and we said that every once in a while, 23 00:01:16,840 --> 00:01:21,319 Speaker 3: something happens so that a fossil naturally occurs, and that 24 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 3: it's desiccated, the skin is dried out. Yeah, that's a mummy. 25 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:30,160 Speaker 3: Yeah who knew? I knew? Yeah, me too. Actually, when 26 00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:31,399 Speaker 3: we talked about that, I was like, we have to 27 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 3: do how mummies work, and here we are. 28 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:35,160 Speaker 1: I'm kind of surprised, just when it's slipped under the 29 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:37,000 Speaker 1: radar for so long. This yeah right up our alley. 30 00:01:37,120 --> 00:01:39,360 Speaker 3: Yeah, I went and looked. I'm like, surely we do 31 00:01:39,480 --> 00:01:40,600 Speaker 3: have it and be fast. 32 00:01:40,760 --> 00:01:41,840 Speaker 1: It was gruesome. 33 00:01:42,160 --> 00:01:44,520 Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's like stuff you should know died in 34 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 3: the wool. Yeah. Yeah, and you're about to hear why 35 00:01:49,000 --> 00:01:51,520 Speaker 3: dear listeners, because we're about to talk about all the 36 00:01:51,560 --> 00:01:53,800 Speaker 3: things that happened to a corpse after death, which we've 37 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:56,320 Speaker 3: done before, but we need to go over again. Mummies 38 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:59,400 Speaker 3: are cool, though, they are very cool. So, Chuck, let's 39 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 3: say that that you were stabbed in the stomach enough 40 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,760 Speaker 3: time so that you could not move any longer. You 41 00:02:06,800 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 3: couldn't walk back home. It was out in the woods, 42 00:02:08,800 --> 00:02:11,079 Speaker 3: and the one person you're with, the very person who 43 00:02:11,120 --> 00:02:14,080 Speaker 3: stabbed you, left you there to die. You bleed out, 44 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 3: you're dead. Things start happening to your body, right, yeah, 45 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 3: pretty quickly, up first is autolysis. 46 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:25,200 Speaker 1: Yes, that is uh, that's kind of gruesome. That's when 47 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:30,120 Speaker 1: your organs that have digestive enzymes actually say, well, this 48 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:32,440 Speaker 1: is what we do, so we're going to start digesting 49 00:02:32,560 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: the organs. 50 00:02:33,400 --> 00:02:36,240 Speaker 3: Right and not like my stomach is eating itself because 51 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,919 Speaker 3: I'm hungry, Like my stomach is actually eating itself. It's 52 00:02:40,000 --> 00:02:45,720 Speaker 3: rupturing and oozing and it's it's being reduced to nothing. Yeah, 53 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:48,240 Speaker 3: while that's going on, and that actually I think if 54 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:52,040 Speaker 3: I remember correctly, that kind of helps kickstart the process 55 00:02:52,160 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 3: of putrefaction, right. 56 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:57,119 Speaker 1: Yeah, autolysis starts within a few hours after you're dead. 57 00:02:57,520 --> 00:02:58,680 Speaker 1: The body, the body knows. 58 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 3: And if you want like a really big overview of 59 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:05,079 Speaker 3: this or an in depth look at what happens to 60 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:06,960 Speaker 3: the body immediately after death, you should listen to our 61 00:03:07,040 --> 00:03:10,840 Speaker 3: Rigor Mortis podcast if you haven't already. Yeah, body farms. 62 00:03:10,880 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 3: I talked about it in there too. 63 00:03:12,560 --> 00:03:15,519 Speaker 1: So yes, puture faction, you're right, is followed by or 64 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:20,840 Speaker 1: follows autolysis. And that is when bacteria does its little 65 00:03:20,919 --> 00:03:25,640 Speaker 1: job and produces everything to a skeleton. And you know, 66 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:27,359 Speaker 1: depending where you are, this gonna happen in a few. 67 00:03:27,200 --> 00:03:30,440 Speaker 3: Months, right, depending on where you are now, We as 68 00:03:30,520 --> 00:03:34,040 Speaker 3: human beings are a subtropical species, right, Chuck, you know that, sure, 69 00:03:34,280 --> 00:03:37,200 Speaker 3: So we are designed, if you believe in that kind 70 00:03:37,240 --> 00:03:42,040 Speaker 3: of thing, to decomposed. Decompose most readily in a warm, 71 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:45,400 Speaker 3: humid climate. That's where the bacteria that breaks down our 72 00:03:45,960 --> 00:03:53,440 Speaker 3: tissue lives or thrives moisture warmth. If you have cold, dry, yeah, 73 00:03:53,560 --> 00:03:57,440 Speaker 3: things change a little bit. Like a refrigerator exactly. Which 74 00:03:57,480 --> 00:03:59,000 Speaker 3: is a good place to store a body if you 75 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 3: want to preserve it, or food if you want to 76 00:04:01,240 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 3: eat it. That's a good point to your body if 77 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 3: you want to eat it. For an in depth look 78 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:07,800 Speaker 3: at that, you might want to listen to our cannibalism 79 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:11,200 Speaker 3: podcast though. That's right, right, But let's say you don't 80 00:04:11,200 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 3: have a refrigerator. Nature provides it for you on some occasions. 81 00:04:15,720 --> 00:04:17,920 Speaker 3: There's ut See the ice man. 82 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:20,520 Speaker 1: Right, yeah, see the ice man. 83 00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:21,680 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the iceman. 84 00:04:21,760 --> 00:04:24,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, nineteen ninety one and the Italian Alps. This dude 85 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:27,599 Speaker 1: is very well preserved natural mummy. 86 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:28,680 Speaker 3: He's amazing. 87 00:04:28,880 --> 00:04:31,279 Speaker 1: Died and basically got buried in ice and kind of 88 00:04:31,279 --> 00:04:31,839 Speaker 1: stayed that way. 89 00:04:31,920 --> 00:04:34,200 Speaker 3: Yeah. I think they have the impression that he fell 90 00:04:34,200 --> 00:04:37,000 Speaker 3: into a crevasse. Yeah, died, but it was during like 91 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,680 Speaker 3: a blizzard maybe, and he was covered with snow and 92 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:45,039 Speaker 3: ice that stuck around for millennia. But he's so well preserved. 93 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:48,080 Speaker 3: You can see the tattoos on his skin and still. 94 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:51,320 Speaker 1: Yeah, well and we knew, Hey, they tattooed people fifty 95 00:04:51,360 --> 00:04:54,280 Speaker 1: three hundred years ago exactly. Little window into what life 96 00:04:54,360 --> 00:04:55,120 Speaker 1: was like for Iceman. 97 00:04:55,279 --> 00:04:59,359 Speaker 3: Yeah he was. He had I think a nice little 98 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:04,080 Speaker 3: set of air and his bow and copper age European guy. 99 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:07,080 Speaker 1: That's why he had a wallet sized photo of you 100 00:05:07,279 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: as well of me. Yeah, it's not possible. He was 101 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:13,200 Speaker 1: from the future. That's my that's what I think. 102 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:17,400 Speaker 3: He just blew my mind. Chuck good. So ice, as 103 00:05:17,440 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 3: we talked about in Fossils too, was a is a 104 00:05:20,480 --> 00:05:24,960 Speaker 3: very good preservant. But nothing does it. Oh, Pete Bogs too. 105 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:27,240 Speaker 3: You remember I finally showed you that picture of Tolan Man. 106 00:05:27,680 --> 00:05:28,920 Speaker 1: Can't forget about Pete. 107 00:05:28,680 --> 00:05:30,880 Speaker 3: Again if you have not gone and looked up Tolon Man. 108 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:33,880 Speaker 3: It's awesome, Like his whiskers are still there and he 109 00:05:33,960 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 3: lived a couple thousand years ago, right. 110 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: What's his name? Did they name him just Tolan Man? 111 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,919 Speaker 3: Toland Man? I would have named him Pete Terrible. So 112 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:48,000 Speaker 3: those two are pretty good. But the money, the natural 113 00:05:48,120 --> 00:05:50,160 Speaker 3: money preserve it is sand. 114 00:05:50,400 --> 00:05:51,279 Speaker 1: Yeah, I had no idea. 115 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 3: The reason why sand is such a great preservative is 116 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,880 Speaker 3: because it actually wicks away and absorbs and just removes 117 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 3: the any type of humidity in the body, which allows 118 00:06:03,720 --> 00:06:06,800 Speaker 3: the body to desiccate, which means that there is no 119 00:06:07,560 --> 00:06:10,960 Speaker 3: place for bacteria to live, which means the tissues, the 120 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:13,920 Speaker 3: tissue remains intact. And that's all about mummy is Yeah, 121 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 3: it's a it's a corpse with its tissue intact. 122 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:21,640 Speaker 1: Well, and this kind of kickstarted the whole mummification artificial 123 00:06:21,720 --> 00:06:26,920 Speaker 1: mummification craze in Egypt because at first they buried bodies. 124 00:06:26,960 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: They weren't in caskets, they were you know, buried in 125 00:06:29,440 --> 00:06:32,120 Speaker 1: the hot sand. Yeah, and that preserved the body for 126 00:06:32,200 --> 00:06:35,279 Speaker 1: so long. They said, well, hey, if the body's preserved, 127 00:06:35,279 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 1: and that means the spirit's preserved. And this all of 128 00:06:38,080 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 1: a sudden, we have new views on the afterlife and life. 129 00:06:41,800 --> 00:06:44,840 Speaker 3: Right, So what they decided to do and this was 130 00:06:45,040 --> 00:06:47,200 Speaker 3: so what I guess what you've just said though, is 131 00:06:47,240 --> 00:06:51,560 Speaker 3: that the mummification, the whole concept of mummies that we 132 00:06:51,680 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 3: have that was so ingrained in the Egyptian culture. Happened 133 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:59,640 Speaker 3: by accident, right, Yeah, So they started they figured this out. 134 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:03,200 Speaker 3: So they start purposefully burying people in the sand with 135 00:07:03,279 --> 00:07:08,839 Speaker 3: the intent of them being mummified. Right. But the problem is, 136 00:07:08,839 --> 00:07:12,480 Speaker 3: somewhere along the way they begin to have horrible thoughts 137 00:07:12,520 --> 00:07:15,720 Speaker 3: of their dead relatives choked with sand. Right, So they 138 00:07:15,720 --> 00:07:17,480 Speaker 3: started to say, maybe we should put some sort of 139 00:07:17,520 --> 00:07:22,400 Speaker 3: barrier up in between the corpse and the sand. Yeah, 140 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:24,120 Speaker 3: and that led to caskets, right. 141 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:26,040 Speaker 1: Yeah, started with just like a wicker covering, and then 142 00:07:26,080 --> 00:07:30,480 Speaker 1: that eventually led to wooden boxes. But here's the rub. Yeah, 143 00:07:31,040 --> 00:07:35,440 Speaker 1: now the body is not preserved. Now the body rots desicates. Well, 144 00:07:35,480 --> 00:07:35,760 Speaker 1: no it. 145 00:07:35,680 --> 00:07:39,000 Speaker 3: Doesn't, it's just a normal corpse. Now, yeah, becomes you've 146 00:07:39,000 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 3: put a barrier between the body and the preservant in 147 00:07:41,840 --> 00:07:42,679 Speaker 3: the form of a tomb. 148 00:07:42,920 --> 00:07:44,440 Speaker 1: So what's an Egyptian to do? 149 00:07:44,480 --> 00:07:44,640 Speaker 2: Then? 150 00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:48,680 Speaker 3: Well, the Egyptians, being the very pious culture that they were, 151 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:52,320 Speaker 3: and the very intuitive and smart culture that they were. 152 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 3: You should for that, you should go read did the 153 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:58,600 Speaker 3: Greeks get all their ideas from the Africans? Good article? 154 00:07:58,800 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: Did you read them? 155 00:07:59,560 --> 00:08:01,960 Speaker 3: Yeah? We do that. Podcast man let's do that, Okay. 156 00:08:03,240 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 3: They they decided that they needed to rectify their their 157 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:15,000 Speaker 3: religious beliefs with their problem, their their need to preserve bodies. 158 00:08:15,080 --> 00:08:15,920 Speaker 3: And what did they do. 159 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:20,400 Speaker 1: Well, they said, maybe we can replicate this natural process 160 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:24,960 Speaker 1: that we've discovered through man made artificial means and the 161 00:08:25,080 --> 00:08:28,440 Speaker 1: trial and error. Yeah, it's kind of like it's called embalming, Josh. 162 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:31,200 Speaker 3: And they actually figured out, Chuck that like, one of 163 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:35,360 Speaker 3: the one of the problems with the desiccation, the natural 164 00:08:35,400 --> 00:08:39,280 Speaker 3: desiccation in the desert was that the skin turned like 165 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:43,800 Speaker 3: this crisp brown right, like you know, over baked chicken. 166 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:45,320 Speaker 1: It's exactly what looks like. 167 00:08:45,360 --> 00:08:50,440 Speaker 3: Actually, yeah, And with these embalming techniques that they eventually mastered, 168 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:53,960 Speaker 3: they they could they could preserve a body better than 169 00:08:54,760 --> 00:08:58,200 Speaker 3: it could be preserved naturally, which is man conquering nature. 170 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:02,080 Speaker 1: It's right, conquering death even well, come on, it's a cluss. 171 00:09:03,000 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 1: They didn't have huge success at first. They would embalm 172 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:09,560 Speaker 1: the bodies mainly to keep it away from the elements, 173 00:09:09,600 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: wrap it in linen, soaked in resin, and they would 174 00:09:12,280 --> 00:09:14,800 Speaker 1: create nice little shapely forms that look kind of like people. 175 00:09:15,800 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 1: But that didn't really do a whole lot because the 176 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:21,920 Speaker 1: bandages didn't really halt the composition. They basically figured out 177 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:23,640 Speaker 1: that it happens from the inside out. 178 00:09:23,760 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 2: Right. 179 00:09:24,080 --> 00:09:27,079 Speaker 3: It took it took them a few centuries, if not millennia. 180 00:09:26,840 --> 00:09:29,360 Speaker 1: Basically wrapping it up, and it's just disintegrating within the 181 00:09:29,400 --> 00:09:30,440 Speaker 1: bandages at first. 182 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:34,040 Speaker 3: Right, But those bandages are important because they stick around 183 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:36,959 Speaker 3: pretty much the whole time. Same with the resin right. Yes, 184 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:40,959 Speaker 3: so those two very early embalming techniques are mummification techniques 185 00:09:41,679 --> 00:09:44,680 Speaker 3: stuck around, But it was a big leap when they 186 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:46,280 Speaker 3: figured out, oh wait a minute, this is going on 187 00:09:46,360 --> 00:09:49,960 Speaker 3: inside and so we need to start addressing. 188 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 1: That by removing organs. 189 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 3: Right, And it's about here I think that we hit 190 00:09:53,440 --> 00:09:57,800 Speaker 3: the Middle Kingdom. And like the mummies that we think 191 00:09:57,880 --> 00:10:00,400 Speaker 3: of were produced in the from the eighth keent the 192 00:10:00,440 --> 00:10:02,480 Speaker 3: twentieth dynasties of the Middle Kingdom. 193 00:10:02,679 --> 00:10:06,280 Speaker 1: Yeah, that was when the like the heyday of mummification, right. 194 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:10,880 Speaker 3: Right, which was between fifteen seventy and ten seventy five BC. Yeah, 195 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:12,920 Speaker 3: the mummies that we think of, the ones that are 196 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:17,360 Speaker 3: still around like really well preserved today, they were preserved 197 00:10:17,440 --> 00:10:20,560 Speaker 3: during this time, right, right, So what do you do 198 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:24,560 Speaker 3: when you realize that everything bad is happening to a 199 00:10:24,640 --> 00:10:28,160 Speaker 3: corpse from the inside out. How do you address that? 200 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 1: Should we just walk through the process one by one, 201 00:10:33,240 --> 00:10:36,560 Speaker 1: the gruesome process? Yeah, okay. First thing you do is 202 00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:40,000 Speaker 1: you take it and it varies, you know, the different processes. 203 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:44,640 Speaker 1: And within the processes, they had things that they would say, 204 00:10:44,679 --> 00:10:46,720 Speaker 1: sort like religious rights that they would go through as well. 205 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:48,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, very sacred processes. 206 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:50,920 Speaker 1: But they would take the body generally to the Red 207 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: Land desert region. It's not near a whole lot of people, 208 00:10:53,920 --> 00:10:56,199 Speaker 1: so people aren't grossed out, but it is near the 209 00:10:56,320 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 1: Nile River. They needed the Nile River to well, we'll 210 00:10:59,480 --> 00:11:01,640 Speaker 1: see that in sess second step one, step one. You 211 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:03,760 Speaker 1: need the Nile for step one. They think they did 212 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:06,360 Speaker 1: it an open tents obviously to get some good ventilation going. 213 00:11:07,080 --> 00:11:10,000 Speaker 1: And the first place they took the body was to 214 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:12,720 Speaker 1: the eyebo, the place of purification. 215 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, that was basically the Nile or the place where 216 00:11:16,640 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 3: they the place near the Nile where they rinsed the 217 00:11:19,440 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 3: body with you washed the body off. 218 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's like a rebirth symbol of rebirth. 219 00:11:24,480 --> 00:11:28,920 Speaker 3: Right, So the the the corpse was hastened or some 220 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,200 Speaker 3: of the spirit was hastened in the afterlife, and we 221 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:33,480 Speaker 3: should probably say here so it doesn't get too confusing. 222 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:39,120 Speaker 3: There were three spirits that the Egyptians believed comprised a person, right, 223 00:11:39,800 --> 00:11:42,160 Speaker 3: the Ka, the Ba, and the ah. 224 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:46,959 Speaker 1: Ah Yeah akh, Yeah, it's always tricky to pronounce that. 225 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:51,640 Speaker 3: Right, So I think with this purification process, the ka 226 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:55,080 Speaker 3: or the or the Ba or the ah, we're moved 227 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:58,120 Speaker 3: along to the to the next world. Yeah, but the 228 00:11:58,559 --> 00:12:02,640 Speaker 3: Ka that was the one that was inextricably linked with 229 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 3: the corpse, which became the whole reason for mummification. As 230 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:10,840 Speaker 3: long as the corpse was preserved, the ca was preserved 231 00:12:11,440 --> 00:12:14,320 Speaker 3: and the afterlife could you know, the person could live 232 00:12:14,320 --> 00:12:17,720 Speaker 3: in the afterlife. But once the corpse died, the kaw 233 00:12:17,800 --> 00:12:20,640 Speaker 3: died and that second death was final, which is why 234 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:23,560 Speaker 3: they wanted to preserve bodies in the first place. Right, Yeah, 235 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:26,200 Speaker 3: it's pretty cool. It's like the opposite of ashes to 236 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:27,880 Speaker 3: ashes and dust to death, that's right. 237 00:12:28,720 --> 00:12:31,000 Speaker 1: So after they've washed the body and sort of reborne 238 00:12:31,000 --> 00:12:33,199 Speaker 1: it in the rivers of the Nile, they carried the 239 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:36,520 Speaker 1: body to the per Niffer and that is the house 240 00:12:36,559 --> 00:12:40,040 Speaker 1: of mummification. And this is kind of where this is 241 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:44,319 Speaker 1: the basement of the Fisher House. Basically, huh and six 242 00:12:44,400 --> 00:12:46,800 Speaker 1: feet under the fissures. Oh, yeah, this is in the basement. 243 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:48,679 Speaker 1: This is where we go and the gang would get 244 00:12:48,679 --> 00:12:52,559 Speaker 1: to work. Yeah, they would lay it on a wooden table. 245 00:12:52,600 --> 00:12:56,320 Speaker 1: The body. They removed the brain by hammering a chisel 246 00:12:56,320 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 1: through the bone in the nose. 247 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:01,400 Speaker 3: You know, I knew that already before this articles Christian 248 00:13:01,640 --> 00:13:04,960 Speaker 3: Slaters and like he's in like one of the creep 249 00:13:05,000 --> 00:13:09,200 Speaker 3: shows or Amaze Amazing stories or tales from the crypto 250 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:12,440 Speaker 3: movie pump up the volume. It might have been that, 251 00:13:12,960 --> 00:13:18,200 Speaker 3: but I think it was like a smaller vignette, like 252 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:20,440 Speaker 3: a mini movie within the larger movie. It's called like 253 00:13:20,559 --> 00:13:23,319 Speaker 3: lat number nine or whatever and leaving the cube, think 254 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:26,280 Speaker 3: it was. Now that's called Brotherhood of the Tiger. Now 255 00:13:26,280 --> 00:13:30,040 Speaker 3: I think they change. Yeah. Anyway, they there's a mummy 256 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:33,320 Speaker 3: who's hell bent on taking other people's brains using these 257 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:34,280 Speaker 3: hooks or whatever. 258 00:13:34,400 --> 00:13:36,160 Speaker 1: Well, and that's exactly what they do. They make a 259 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:39,839 Speaker 1: nose hole basically larger than the nostrils. They insert a 260 00:13:39,840 --> 00:13:42,800 Speaker 1: big hook, iron hook, and start scooping it out. Eventually 261 00:13:42,880 --> 00:13:45,280 Speaker 1: they go down to a spoon and eventually they just 262 00:13:45,360 --> 00:13:48,200 Speaker 1: rinse out the remaining bits of brain. And what's funny 263 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:51,079 Speaker 1: is so hold on. They discard the brain because they thought, 264 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:53,560 Speaker 1: I don't know why we have this stuff in our heads, 265 00:13:53,640 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 1: but we probably don't need it in the. 266 00:13:55,240 --> 00:13:58,199 Speaker 3: Afterlife, right, which is kind of unusual for the Egyptians 267 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:02,680 Speaker 3: because they they preserved organ yeah, you know, but the brain. 268 00:14:03,520 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 3: And what's funny though, like I think what we've just 269 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 3: kind of meander passed that we should kind of meditate 270 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:10,480 Speaker 3: on for a second, Chuck, is that they get to 271 00:14:10,520 --> 00:14:13,679 Speaker 3: a point where they fill the head with water. I imagine, 272 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:16,360 Speaker 3: close the nose in the mouth and shake the head 273 00:14:16,400 --> 00:14:18,840 Speaker 3: around to slosh all this stuff out, and then lean 274 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:21,640 Speaker 3: the head over and let all the last bits come out. 275 00:14:21,840 --> 00:14:23,080 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's how I would do it. 276 00:14:23,480 --> 00:14:25,680 Speaker 3: I wonder if they did shots of that stuff, it 277 00:14:25,800 --> 00:14:27,040 Speaker 3: was like part of the ceremony. 278 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:30,680 Speaker 1: I would draw the line there. Well, they probably just thought, 279 00:14:30,880 --> 00:14:32,520 Speaker 1: I don't know, they didn't even know what the brain was. 280 00:14:33,480 --> 00:14:35,000 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's true. It's just waste. 281 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 1: So the brain's out, Josh. Then they take a blade 282 00:14:38,600 --> 00:14:43,400 Speaker 1: made from obsidian sacred stone, cut a little incision on 283 00:14:43,440 --> 00:14:46,000 Speaker 1: the left side and reach in and start pulling out 284 00:14:46,040 --> 00:14:48,480 Speaker 1: the organs that they can get to right, and then 285 00:14:48,520 --> 00:14:51,160 Speaker 1: preserving those, like you said, except for the kidneys because 286 00:14:51,160 --> 00:14:52,480 Speaker 1: they didn't think they were important. 287 00:14:52,160 --> 00:14:54,200 Speaker 3: Either, which they were, you know, I mean the kidneys 288 00:14:54,200 --> 00:14:56,240 Speaker 3: are important, but it's not like brain important. 289 00:14:56,880 --> 00:15:00,560 Speaker 1: Well, I mean you need kidneys to live. I'm sure 290 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:03,040 Speaker 1: they preserve the appending you need all of Yeah, that 291 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:05,200 Speaker 1: was probably the most holy right of the organs. 292 00:15:05,320 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 3: So they actually when they preserve these things, they would 293 00:15:08,480 --> 00:15:14,320 Speaker 3: they would wrap them in uh in resin strips of linen, right, 294 00:15:14,680 --> 00:15:17,960 Speaker 3: Basically they would mummify each organ, yeah, and then they 295 00:15:17,960 --> 00:15:21,760 Speaker 3: put them in and canopic jars. Basically it was like 296 00:15:21,880 --> 00:15:24,560 Speaker 3: here's your body, and then also here are your organs. 297 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:25,560 Speaker 3: I forget you. 298 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:27,600 Speaker 1: They'd leave the heart though, because they thought the heart 299 00:15:27,640 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: was you know, linked to the soul and the spirit. 300 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 1: And they're kind of on the money there, I think. 301 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:37,000 Speaker 3: So these organs take up space in our chests and 302 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:44,920 Speaker 3: abdominal cavities, so they would actually stuff the body with 303 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:47,920 Speaker 3: like incense and other materials as well. 304 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,240 Speaker 1: Right, yeah, well, first they'd rinse it. Once they I forgot, 305 00:15:51,240 --> 00:15:52,840 Speaker 1: they'd take out the lungs to the abdomen. 306 00:15:53,320 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 3: Yeah, right right there. 307 00:15:54,240 --> 00:15:57,520 Speaker 1: You can't get along the little side slit and then 308 00:15:57,560 --> 00:16:00,640 Speaker 1: they would rinse the chest cavity with palm wine and 309 00:16:00,680 --> 00:16:06,040 Speaker 1: then they would stuff it. They would actually basically yeah, straw, 310 00:16:07,000 --> 00:16:09,160 Speaker 1: Well I didn't say what actually you just said other materials. 311 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 1: I would use straw, maybe frankincense, a little murrhor yeah, 312 00:16:14,440 --> 00:16:26,040 Speaker 1: just to complete the trilogy. 313 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:49,280 Speaker 2: Stuff you should know, stuff you should know. 314 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:52,600 Speaker 3: Yeah, straw, frankinsense and yeah, straw. 315 00:16:52,960 --> 00:16:56,440 Speaker 1: That that kept the body from like caving in on itself, 316 00:16:56,480 --> 00:16:58,320 Speaker 1: basically maintaining a little bit of shape. 317 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:04,000 Speaker 3: And then is the key. This is the key to mummification. 318 00:17:04,119 --> 00:17:06,080 Speaker 3: And as a matter of fact, I'm just gonna say 319 00:17:06,080 --> 00:17:08,119 Speaker 3: it now. I found it on the internet. There is 320 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:11,879 Speaker 3: a step by step, very easy to follow recipe on 321 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:15,840 Speaker 3: I think Wiki how, which I don't normally go on, 322 00:17:16,359 --> 00:17:19,440 Speaker 3: but it's the only place I could find a recipe 323 00:17:19,480 --> 00:17:24,000 Speaker 3: for mummifying a chicken using the Egyptian method, and it 324 00:17:24,080 --> 00:17:29,439 Speaker 3: calls for natron, right, Yeah, that's the key. Natron is 325 00:17:29,560 --> 00:17:33,439 Speaker 3: this basically a compound that the Egyptians figured out they 326 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:37,160 Speaker 3: could gather and combine from the Nile, which is basically 327 00:17:37,600 --> 00:17:43,560 Speaker 3: baking soda, sodium bicarbonate and salt table salt sodium chloride. 328 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,080 Speaker 3: You mix the two together and it becomes this perfect preservant. 329 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 3: So they would put natron powder, which is like this 330 00:17:50,280 --> 00:17:55,000 Speaker 3: just accelerated the technique of mummification, like by light years. Sure, 331 00:17:56,240 --> 00:17:58,399 Speaker 3: and they would cover the body with this stuff and 332 00:17:58,520 --> 00:18:01,720 Speaker 3: leave it and it would just completely dry the body out. Right. 333 00:18:01,880 --> 00:18:03,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, this took about forty days. They had to guard 334 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:05,919 Speaker 1: the body while this was going on, obviously, because they 335 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: didn't want vultures digging through the natron for what lies beneath. 336 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:13,600 Speaker 1: After the forty days, they moved the body then to 337 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:17,600 Speaker 1: the wabet, which is a house of purification. Yank all 338 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:20,159 Speaker 1: that incense and the stuffing out, refill it with the 339 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:26,040 Speaker 1: natron resin, soaked linen and other materials again whatever these 340 00:18:26,080 --> 00:18:29,760 Speaker 1: mysterious things are. Then they would sew all the incisions up, 341 00:18:30,359 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 1: cover the skin with resin, and then say, hey, it's 342 00:18:34,119 --> 00:18:35,160 Speaker 1: time to wrap this puppy. 343 00:18:35,320 --> 00:18:37,560 Speaker 3: Yeah, and this is where we get the idea for 344 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 3: the mummy, our modern idea of a mummy always wearing 345 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:42,440 Speaker 3: link bandages. 346 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:42,960 Speaker 1: That are always coming off. 347 00:18:43,320 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 3: Yeah. You can just see the eyes maybe like teeth 348 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:50,680 Speaker 3: or something. Yeah, So this is where we're at. They're 349 00:18:50,680 --> 00:18:54,119 Speaker 3: at the bandaging procedure that thirty five or forty days, 350 00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:57,000 Speaker 3: while the nature and powder was doing its work wicking 351 00:18:57,080 --> 00:19:00,960 Speaker 3: away all of the basically acting as the desk KNT. Yeah, 352 00:19:01,359 --> 00:19:04,520 Speaker 3: the family of the deceased was going around town going 353 00:19:05,200 --> 00:19:09,040 Speaker 3: do you have any linens we can have forever? Yeah? 354 00:19:09,080 --> 00:19:10,760 Speaker 3: Do you have some linens we can have? 355 00:19:10,920 --> 00:19:13,560 Speaker 1: And could you like your linens to spend eternity in 356 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:15,080 Speaker 1: the eavans above. 357 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:20,120 Speaker 3: With our dad. They collected about four thousand square feet 358 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:22,320 Speaker 3: just top top of my head, that's about how much 359 00:19:22,359 --> 00:19:26,119 Speaker 3: they gathered sure of linen and would bring it to 360 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,840 Speaker 3: the embalmers, and the embalmers would say, hey, we like 361 00:19:29,920 --> 00:19:33,159 Speaker 3: this piece. That piece is horrible. Are you really going 362 00:19:33,240 --> 00:19:36,160 Speaker 3: to bury your dad in this? And they would take 363 00:19:36,200 --> 00:19:38,280 Speaker 3: the best stuff and they would cut it into or 364 00:19:38,280 --> 00:19:40,520 Speaker 3: they would tear them into strips three to eight inches 365 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:43,560 Speaker 3: wide of bandages and they would start the rapping, which 366 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 3: would take a little while. Right, Yeah, it takes a week. 367 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:49,119 Speaker 1: Or two, I guess probably depending on how big the 368 00:19:49,160 --> 00:19:53,040 Speaker 1: body is. Common sense. Start with the hands and feet. 369 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:56,560 Speaker 1: You wrap all. This is the initial under wrapping, I guess. 370 00:19:56,560 --> 00:19:59,680 Speaker 1: You wrap everything individually, each little finger each it'll toe 371 00:19:59,720 --> 00:20:03,359 Speaker 1: everything and then once everything's wrapped individually, they do a 372 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:08,919 Speaker 1: whole body wrap, applying new layers, coating the linen with 373 00:20:09,119 --> 00:20:12,680 Speaker 1: again the hot resin to keep everything in place. Uttering spell. 374 00:20:12,800 --> 00:20:17,000 Speaker 1: Sometimes they would wrap amulets over different parts of the body. 375 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:19,520 Speaker 1: Wrap it up in there with you, protect you in 376 00:20:19,560 --> 00:20:21,879 Speaker 1: the next world, that kind of thing. 377 00:20:22,240 --> 00:20:28,199 Speaker 3: Right, and then presto chaninjoh, you are a mummy. And 378 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:32,879 Speaker 3: before we go further the process we've just described, this 379 00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:37,240 Speaker 3: really ornate, wonderful, lengthy process. 380 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:37,640 Speaker 1: Where this is going. 381 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:39,680 Speaker 3: You would think about it like, there's so many There 382 00:20:39,680 --> 00:20:41,639 Speaker 3: were a lot of Egyptians running around, and a lot 383 00:20:41,680 --> 00:20:44,480 Speaker 3: of them died on any given day, and there was 384 00:20:44,520 --> 00:20:47,320 Speaker 3: a lot of work to be done. So this process 385 00:20:47,320 --> 00:20:49,520 Speaker 3: that we just described was for the people who had 386 00:20:49,520 --> 00:20:52,280 Speaker 3: lots of money. For some reason, the wealthy have always 387 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:56,320 Speaker 3: been revered, right, and I've also gotten special treatment right. Right. 388 00:20:58,040 --> 00:21:01,320 Speaker 3: If you were just an ordinary schmo like me or Chuck, 389 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:05,159 Speaker 3: you were going to get the budget package, which is 390 00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 3: basically like instead of like carefully removing all of the organs, 391 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:14,200 Speaker 3: preserving each one, they would inject oil like this oil 392 00:21:14,280 --> 00:21:19,200 Speaker 3: mixture into your cavities, let it sit for a few days. 393 00:21:20,480 --> 00:21:24,040 Speaker 1: It would stop up all your orifices first, sod leak out. 394 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,520 Speaker 3: Thank you. So I don't know how they did that. 395 00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:28,119 Speaker 1: I guess with other materials. 396 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:31,200 Speaker 3: Right, So they would stop you up full of oil, 397 00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:33,760 Speaker 3: let you sit for a few days, and then unstop 398 00:21:33,840 --> 00:21:37,240 Speaker 3: your orifices and let all the oil drain out, and 399 00:21:37,359 --> 00:21:41,400 Speaker 3: it would carry the liquefied organs and tissue out with it. 400 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:44,199 Speaker 3: It's a lot easier, a lot faster. 401 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:46,639 Speaker 1: So even this many thousands of years ago, you get 402 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:50,720 Speaker 1: what you paid for exactly. That's pretty sad. Yeah, there's 403 00:21:50,720 --> 00:21:52,560 Speaker 1: always been a budget package. Or maybe that's a good 404 00:21:52,600 --> 00:21:56,240 Speaker 1: thing that it wasn't only just reserved. Like if you 405 00:21:56,280 --> 00:21:58,200 Speaker 1: don't have any money, you just can't get mummified. 406 00:21:58,280 --> 00:21:58,959 Speaker 3: That's a way to go. 407 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:01,120 Speaker 1: They thought, you know what, let's think of a cheaper 408 00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:02,320 Speaker 1: way to do this for you folks. 409 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:03,840 Speaker 3: Right, let's just fill. 410 00:22:03,680 --> 00:22:05,520 Speaker 1: You up with the oil, stop up your orifices, and 411 00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 1: give you a good shake. 412 00:22:07,160 --> 00:22:11,600 Speaker 3: Yep, So you're prepared. You're all wrapped. However, they got 413 00:22:11,600 --> 00:22:16,360 Speaker 3: your organs out there out, you're bandaged, and you are 414 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:19,879 Speaker 3: now about to be outfitted what's called a cartonage cage, 415 00:22:20,400 --> 00:22:23,800 Speaker 3: which is kind of like a breastplate. Some cool like 416 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:29,199 Speaker 3: forearm armor, leg armor pretty much this thing that's going 417 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:32,400 Speaker 3: to hold your body together for a while. And a 418 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,840 Speaker 3: funerary mask, which is like the famous masks we think 419 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:37,600 Speaker 3: of when we think of like King Tut, like it's 420 00:22:37,600 --> 00:22:41,520 Speaker 3: a death mask. And these were extremely important because they 421 00:22:41,680 --> 00:22:46,800 Speaker 3: directed the spirit the ka to the right body afterward, 422 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:50,359 Speaker 3: So it was in a person's visage or possibly that 423 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:53,720 Speaker 3: of a god, but the spirit would be in on 424 00:22:53,840 --> 00:22:54,800 Speaker 3: you know, what to look for. 425 00:22:54,880 --> 00:22:55,560 Speaker 1: They would know that. 426 00:22:55,560 --> 00:22:57,160 Speaker 3: That's how they knew it was. Who. 427 00:22:57,240 --> 00:22:59,880 Speaker 1: Sure, this guy is supposed to supposed to either look 428 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:03,800 Speaker 1: like Josh or Anubis. Either way, I think that's him 429 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:05,720 Speaker 1: right overay there, right, so let's grab him. 430 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,399 Speaker 3: And speaking of a Nubis, you would be committed to 431 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:13,879 Speaker 3: your tomb following a funeral procession where you were carried 432 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:16,720 Speaker 3: in your suet, right, which so that's. 433 00:23:16,520 --> 00:23:18,880 Speaker 1: What you think of with King Tutt. That's the casket 434 00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:22,560 Speaker 1: that looks like a person, like the gold casket in 435 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:23,399 Speaker 1: the shape of a human. 436 00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:26,679 Speaker 3: Right, it's a suet. It's a suet that would be 437 00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:29,400 Speaker 3: carried to your tomb, and there would be a priest 438 00:23:29,600 --> 00:23:34,919 Speaker 3: dressed as the jackal god Anubis. There were there was 439 00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:38,320 Speaker 3: the ceremony of the mouth, which is pretty cool because 440 00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 3: there was some sort of weird understanding. I guess that 441 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:46,960 Speaker 3: you had died and now certain things had to be restored, 442 00:23:47,560 --> 00:23:52,480 Speaker 3: and the ceremony of the mouth was this passing over 443 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:55,639 Speaker 3: of sacred objects to like the across the suet's face, 444 00:23:56,040 --> 00:24:00,840 Speaker 3: the casket's face, and it would restore your five cents. Yeah, 445 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:04,160 Speaker 3: because you need that exactly, so you're placed and this 446 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:06,480 Speaker 3: is weird. Chuck, did you find this odd that your 447 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,160 Speaker 3: casket was placed leaned up against the wall. 448 00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:13,399 Speaker 1: Yeah, It almost like I would do that while I 449 00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,160 Speaker 1: was getting everything ready and then I would lay it down. 450 00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:17,879 Speaker 1: So it almost made me think that they kind of 451 00:24:17,920 --> 00:24:20,240 Speaker 1: forgot and they say, oh, well, we left that first 452 00:24:20,280 --> 00:24:22,000 Speaker 1: one leaning against the wall, so I guess that's the 453 00:24:22,000 --> 00:24:24,439 Speaker 1: way we do it. Yeah, but that's not true. No, 454 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:26,639 Speaker 1: I'm sure they had a very good reason. 455 00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,560 Speaker 3: Probably because it was easier to just walk up right 456 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:30,280 Speaker 3: out of there. 457 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,000 Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I would think they wanted to leave it upright, 458 00:24:33,080 --> 00:24:36,360 Speaker 1: but standing it upright they didn't have, like the perfectly 459 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 1: level floor probably wasn't too secure, so they just gave 460 00:24:40,320 --> 00:24:41,200 Speaker 1: it a little lean. 461 00:24:41,800 --> 00:24:44,720 Speaker 3: Sure, little help, which is far less secure than just 462 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:49,280 Speaker 3: laying it down on the floor. Yeah. Following that, you 463 00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:53,560 Speaker 3: are your furniture. Don't forget your canopic jar of organs 464 00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:56,920 Speaker 3: laid next to you, little food maybe, sure, your furniture 465 00:24:58,080 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 3: basically the stuff you're going to need in the next 466 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:03,440 Speaker 3: life to be comfortable. Yeah, and you're set. Your tomb 467 00:25:03,480 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 3: is sealed up, and it's probably inscribed with something along 468 00:25:07,560 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 3: the lines of as for anybody who shall enter this 469 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:13,360 Speaker 3: tomb in his impurity, I shall wring his neck as 470 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,960 Speaker 3: a bird's. It was a standard mummy curse. Yeah, a 471 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:18,160 Speaker 3: mummy curse on the tomb. 472 00:25:18,240 --> 00:25:21,640 Speaker 1: Yeah. People became in the nineteen twenties. Howard Carter dug 473 00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,919 Speaker 1: up King Tut's tomb, and people were just crazy for 474 00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:26,840 Speaker 1: mummies at the time. 475 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:27,360 Speaker 3: Yeah. 476 00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:29,920 Speaker 1: Westerners are like, oh my gosh, this is so interesting. 477 00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:33,520 Speaker 1: This curse thing is so neat. Laurel and Hardy are 478 00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:39,040 Speaker 1: doing mummy curse movies and a microbiologist from Germany named 479 00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:43,720 Speaker 1: Gothard Kramer or Cramer said, there may be something to 480 00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,600 Speaker 1: this curse thing because they bury people with food produces 481 00:25:46,640 --> 00:25:49,600 Speaker 1: mold spores, So when they unearth this tomb, all these 482 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:51,520 Speaker 1: mold spores are released into the air and it might 483 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 1: kill you. So it's not that there's something to the curse, 484 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,680 Speaker 1: but it could lead people to tie the two together. 485 00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:58,160 Speaker 1: If you unearth the tomb, then you die. 486 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:02,520 Speaker 3: Certainly, there's something weird about the Carter expedition who unearthed 487 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:06,320 Speaker 3: King Tut's tomb in nineteen twenty two because eleven of 488 00:26:06,400 --> 00:26:10,919 Speaker 3: the people who were involved, not necessarily present, but involved, 489 00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:15,000 Speaker 3: died within seven years. I think eleven people in a canary. 490 00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:19,240 Speaker 3: His canary died like right when they entered the tomb. 491 00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,800 Speaker 3: A cobra ate it. It's bad luck, it is, and 492 00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:24,600 Speaker 3: then it just went downhill from there. So there's all 493 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:29,840 Speaker 3: sorts of explanations, but it's also oddly intriguing. And like 494 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:33,280 Speaker 3: you said, egypt Mania gripped the West. Oh yeah, they 495 00:26:33,320 --> 00:26:36,399 Speaker 3: loved it all right. And there was actually unraveling parties 496 00:26:36,400 --> 00:26:38,479 Speaker 3: where people get their hands on mummies and then like 497 00:26:39,200 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 3: unbandage them, see what's in there, which is like, that's 498 00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:45,040 Speaker 3: not what you do with a dead body. This desecration. 499 00:26:45,280 --> 00:27:19,520 Speaker 4: Yeah, it's bad luck too, you know. 500 00:27:20,600 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 1: So that pretty much is the Egyptian mummy, and that's 501 00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:25,959 Speaker 1: what we mainly think of. But they weren't the first 502 00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:27,400 Speaker 1: people to do this kind of thing. 503 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:29,360 Speaker 3: No, and then isn't that interesting? 504 00:27:29,560 --> 00:27:32,159 Speaker 1: Yeah? They the first the oldest mummies actually on the 505 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:37,680 Speaker 1: planet are from northern Chile, the Chinchoro people. Yep, Chinchiro, 506 00:27:39,160 --> 00:27:42,880 Speaker 1: let's go with Chinchoro. Okay, Uh this they started doing 507 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,280 Speaker 1: this about two thousand years before the Egyptians, but they 508 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:48,880 Speaker 1: were not very much like uh, the Egyptians. They basically 509 00:27:49,600 --> 00:27:53,119 Speaker 1: dismembered and disemboweled the body, put it back together again, 510 00:27:53,480 --> 00:27:57,000 Speaker 1: sewed it up, and then covered it with black mud. 511 00:27:57,280 --> 00:28:00,600 Speaker 3: Well they put it back together with like straw and sticks, 512 00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:02,719 Speaker 3: and that's what they had. It was like they make 513 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:04,640 Speaker 3: qupie dolls out of like these bodies. 514 00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:07,240 Speaker 1: Basically, yeah, covered it with black mud and shaped it 515 00:28:07,280 --> 00:28:12,000 Speaker 1: into a human form. But they believe that this wasn't 516 00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:15,920 Speaker 1: necessarily done to preserve the body for the afterlife. Maybe 517 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:19,000 Speaker 1: it was more for the people left on the planet 518 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:22,359 Speaker 1: Earth to mourn the death of their loved one keep them. 519 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:24,160 Speaker 3: Around a little longer, which is very sweet. 520 00:28:24,000 --> 00:28:26,760 Speaker 1: Because they saw evidence of like retouching of the paint, 521 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:30,359 Speaker 1: signs of wear and tear, so that you know, basically 522 00:28:30,359 --> 00:28:32,760 Speaker 1: they were kept in the households for a little while. 523 00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:37,600 Speaker 3: They think basically statues freaky freaky statues. Yeah, and that 524 00:28:37,760 --> 00:28:41,160 Speaker 3: was five thousand BC, which is two thousand years before 525 00:28:41,200 --> 00:28:43,880 Speaker 3: the Egyptians came onto the scene at all. It's right. 526 00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:48,920 Speaker 3: And the would you say the Cinchoro people, Yeah, they were, 527 00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:50,280 Speaker 3: which you said a lot. 528 00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:54,040 Speaker 1: I think I went with Chinchoro, but someone will point 529 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:54,800 Speaker 1: that out if I'm wrong. 530 00:28:55,120 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 3: I agreed. They're not the only ones in South America 531 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:02,840 Speaker 3: who got into move cation either. The Incas very famously 532 00:29:02,880 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 3: did as well. They had a little habit of sacrificing 533 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:11,560 Speaker 3: children to their gods, and they culture relativism chuck, and 534 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,640 Speaker 3: they would through this process like the child and the 535 00:29:15,720 --> 00:29:20,000 Speaker 3: child's family were just treated like royalty for this, like 536 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,400 Speaker 3: it was a high honor to be chosen to be 537 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:26,040 Speaker 3: sacrificed to the gods. And they would get the child 538 00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:32,040 Speaker 3: really wasted on this fermented corn concoction, take the child 539 00:29:32,080 --> 00:29:35,720 Speaker 3: up to the cave. Sometimes I think they would whack 540 00:29:35,720 --> 00:29:38,240 Speaker 3: the kid over the head, or other times they would 541 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 3: get the child so wasted that they just would leave 542 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:46,200 Speaker 3: them there in the cold temperatures, exposed to the freezing temperatures, 543 00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,640 Speaker 3: and the child would die of exposure. I can't say 544 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:53,600 Speaker 3: jerks about this, you can, but there's a very famous 545 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:56,240 Speaker 3: mummy called the Maiden, who's a fifteen year old girl 546 00:29:56,760 --> 00:30:00,480 Speaker 3: and she was sacrificed as thanks to the gods for 547 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:02,960 Speaker 3: a really good corn harvest by the Incas in Peru 548 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,280 Speaker 3: five hundred years ago. Oh yeah, did you see that 549 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:06,120 Speaker 3: picture I sent you? 550 00:30:06,400 --> 00:30:07,200 Speaker 1: Oh? Yeah, was that her? 551 00:30:07,320 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 3: It's like looking at a girl who's sleeping, but she's 552 00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 3: been dead for five hundred years. Yeah, like you if 553 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:14,760 Speaker 3: you've been to South America's I know you have her 554 00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,560 Speaker 3: Central America. Like, she looks just like one of those 555 00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:20,800 Speaker 3: girls you might see down there, like a Central American 556 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:22,719 Speaker 3: indigenous person. 557 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:23,920 Speaker 1: She's probably short. 558 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:25,720 Speaker 3: Then she looks kind of short. 559 00:30:25,800 --> 00:30:28,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, that'd be funny if she was like six to two. 560 00:30:29,360 --> 00:30:32,080 Speaker 3: But then moving on up, there's also one and it 561 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,880 Speaker 3: didn't make it into this article, but chuck, I've been 562 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:40,040 Speaker 3: there myself. Juannawanto, Mexico has a mummy museum and they 563 00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,720 Speaker 3: have the world's smallest mummy. I think it might have 564 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:46,640 Speaker 3: been a fetus really, but they were all naturally mummified, 565 00:30:47,560 --> 00:30:51,040 Speaker 3: to the great surprise of the nineteenth century townspeople who 566 00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 3: had to move a graveyard and found like, okay, there's 567 00:30:54,040 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 3: a lot of mummies. 568 00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 1: How big was it? 569 00:30:56,600 --> 00:31:01,000 Speaker 3: It was very small. You known object coffee up, coffee 570 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,160 Speaker 3: cup okay, sandered coffee cups on it, gotcha. But then 571 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 3: there's like people, they're still wearing their suits, and it's 572 00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:12,479 Speaker 3: really amazing. You walk into this little Mexican building and 573 00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:17,360 Speaker 3: there's just dead people everywhere, just behind this glass. It's 574 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:19,959 Speaker 3: very neat. If you ever go to Guanawanto, Mexico, you 575 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:21,320 Speaker 3: have to go to the mummy museum. 576 00:31:21,360 --> 00:31:25,440 Speaker 1: I think I should. Yeah, Lady Chang China. Chinese were 577 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:29,200 Speaker 1: they were lousy with mummies. Yeah, they love to mommify people. 578 00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,680 Speaker 1: She was an aristocrat from about two thousand years ago, 579 00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,920 Speaker 1: and she is believed to be about the best preserved 580 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:39,720 Speaker 1: ancient mummy so far. Did you see her picture? Yeah, 581 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,280 Speaker 1: with their tongue sticking out pretty well mummified, yeah, and 582 00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:46,160 Speaker 1: her hair still. Yeah, she was. They haven't studied her 583 00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:48,160 Speaker 1: a whole lot, the Chinese haven't, so they don't know 584 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: exactly how she was prepared, but they do think that 585 00:31:53,160 --> 00:31:55,280 Speaker 1: mercury and the embalming fluid might have had something. 586 00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:55,480 Speaker 2: To do with it. 587 00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 3: Yeah, I would imagine that will do it. Mercury, yeah, sure, 588 00:31:59,120 --> 00:32:04,080 Speaker 3: and also in China, mummies have kind of rewritten history 589 00:32:04,120 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 3: a little bit. Some very very ancient mummies from one 590 00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:15,040 Speaker 3: thousand BC. Before one thousand BC, they found some people 591 00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:20,000 Speaker 3: of Indo Iranian descent. They're they linked them to like 592 00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:25,520 Speaker 3: basically Mesopotamia through tattoos and like other implements that they had. 593 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:27,200 Speaker 1: In the shape of their face, the way they looked. 594 00:32:27,040 --> 00:32:29,280 Speaker 3: Yep, and they figured out, like, wait a minute, these 595 00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:32,360 Speaker 3: people were like Indo European traders. 596 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:33,680 Speaker 1: What are they doing here? 597 00:32:33,800 --> 00:32:36,600 Speaker 3: And they just made their way to settle right in 598 00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:41,800 Speaker 3: the deserts of China before the Han dynasty ever showed up. Yeah, 599 00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:44,320 Speaker 3: so that kind of changed things a little bit. 600 00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,920 Speaker 1: I'm sure if we talk about mummies, we got to 601 00:32:47,960 --> 00:32:51,760 Speaker 1: talk about the more modern day mummies because of the 602 00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:56,720 Speaker 1: big interest in mummification thanks to Tut being found was 603 00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,360 Speaker 1: the big one. Yeah, that's right around the time Lenin 604 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,719 Speaker 1: died Russia and they said, you know what, let's preserve 605 00:33:02,800 --> 00:33:06,960 Speaker 1: linen and display in the Kremlin. So that's exactly what 606 00:33:07,000 --> 00:33:10,200 Speaker 1: they did, and we do not know exactly how because 607 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,040 Speaker 1: it's an ancient Russian secret. I don't know about ancient, 608 00:33:13,440 --> 00:33:17,320 Speaker 1: but it's a Russian secret, and they it's ongoing because 609 00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:21,240 Speaker 1: they continue to immerse him in a preservative bath every 610 00:33:21,240 --> 00:33:21,680 Speaker 1: now and then. 611 00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 3: Andy's wears a waterproof suit. 612 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,120 Speaker 1: That's right. And if you've ever seen pictures of Lenin 613 00:33:27,320 --> 00:33:31,720 Speaker 1: or eva perone, did they look pretty lifelike? Yeah, but 614 00:33:31,760 --> 00:33:35,400 Speaker 1: hers is way cool. They basically replaced all the fluids 615 00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:39,040 Speaker 1: in her body with wax, right, which would be a 616 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,800 Speaker 1: very modern take on the ancient practice. 617 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:47,720 Speaker 3: There's also incorruptible corpses of the Catholic Faith. It's basically 618 00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:51,840 Speaker 3: a person who is so pure on earth that their 619 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:56,320 Speaker 3: body just didn't didn't rot. And there's example of those. 620 00:33:56,440 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 3: There's one he's like a prince, he's like a child prints. 621 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,880 Speaker 3: I think he died in like he died more than 622 00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:08,240 Speaker 3: a thousand years ago, or about it a thousand years ago, 623 00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:13,359 Speaker 3: and his body's totally preserved and there's no evidence that 624 00:34:13,400 --> 00:34:16,320 Speaker 3: he was embalmed or anything like that. What they don't 625 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,799 Speaker 3: understand that there are some bodies out there that just 626 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:21,680 Speaker 3: defy logic. I wrote an article and you should read 627 00:34:21,719 --> 00:34:24,319 Speaker 3: It's a miracle. How can a courpse be incorruptible? 628 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,240 Speaker 1: We need to keep in track of these awesome ideas. Correct, 629 00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:31,839 Speaker 1: Where's our person, where's our boy? Charlie or no, our 630 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:38,440 Speaker 1: boy Friday, Okay, Charlie, where I got that? And then Josh, 631 00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:42,480 Speaker 1: finally we have. In the nineteen seventies, some scientists discovered 632 00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:46,480 Speaker 1: something called plastinization, and that is when all of the 633 00:34:46,520 --> 00:34:49,560 Speaker 1: water and lipids and the body cells are replaced with 634 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:54,440 Speaker 1: polymers and you basically become like plastic, very flexible and durable. 635 00:34:55,200 --> 00:34:58,879 Speaker 1: You don't decompose and you don't stink too bad. And 636 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:03,240 Speaker 1: that is used to preserve bodies, mainly for anatomical research 637 00:35:03,239 --> 00:35:04,080 Speaker 1: at this point. 638 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:06,520 Speaker 3: Or for bodies world or bodies the exhibitive. 639 00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:08,719 Speaker 1: You've been, No, I've never been, but that's how they 640 00:35:08,719 --> 00:35:09,320 Speaker 1: do it. 641 00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:11,799 Speaker 3: It is really something. I mean, you're right there up 642 00:35:11,840 --> 00:35:14,799 Speaker 3: on this corpse missing its skin and like it is 643 00:35:14,840 --> 00:35:20,000 Speaker 3: a dead person, and it's really interesting. There's one, the 644 00:35:20,280 --> 00:35:23,200 Speaker 3: one that I went to in Atlanta. It's two eyeballs 645 00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:26,279 Speaker 3: and they're connected to the spinal cord which is going 646 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,600 Speaker 3: down and then the coming off the spinal cord are 647 00:35:28,680 --> 00:35:31,799 Speaker 3: the major nerves of the central nervous system and that's it, 648 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:37,360 Speaker 3: and it's just laid out perfectly, really kind of surprising. 649 00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:39,200 Speaker 1: I'm shocked that I haven't been to that yet. 650 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:41,080 Speaker 3: It's pretty cool. It's definitely worth going to. 651 00:35:41,280 --> 00:35:42,759 Speaker 1: I did the dialogue in the dark thing. 652 00:35:43,160 --> 00:35:45,600 Speaker 3: I have not been there. That's next door. Yeah, that 653 00:35:45,880 --> 00:35:47,080 Speaker 3: was that kid. You know. 654 00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:51,040 Speaker 1: I was a little disappointed. Yeah, not in the exhibit itself, 655 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:55,080 Speaker 1: but the way they do it. I think it could 656 00:35:55,120 --> 00:35:57,319 Speaker 1: have been like really awesome. But the way they do it, 657 00:35:57,320 --> 00:35:59,400 Speaker 1: it wasn't as awesome as it could have been. Just 658 00:35:59,440 --> 00:35:59,759 Speaker 1: my take. 659 00:36:00,120 --> 00:36:02,239 Speaker 3: Me and her sister went and she said they would 660 00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,160 Speaker 3: have liked it. But there was this very loud, drunk 661 00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:06,560 Speaker 3: woman who kept like falling into people what they wanted 662 00:36:06,560 --> 00:36:07,080 Speaker 3: to kill. 663 00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:09,120 Speaker 1: Nothing you can do about that, you know, in the 664 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:10,640 Speaker 1: dark weather, you could just like kick her in the 665 00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:11,399 Speaker 1: shin and run away. 666 00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:12,640 Speaker 3: Uh huh. 667 00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:15,319 Speaker 1: We should mention Bob Doctor Bob Bryer real quick though. 668 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:20,040 Speaker 1: He is an Egyptologist who in nineteen ninety four said, 669 00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,080 Speaker 1: you know what, I want to try and replicate the 670 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:26,280 Speaker 1: Egyptian technique and he did it. Chicken, Yeah, with a chicken, 671 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:28,640 Speaker 1: and he did it. It was pretty successful at the University 672 00:36:28,640 --> 00:36:31,919 Speaker 1: of Maryland School of Medicine. And one of the things 673 00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:35,680 Speaker 1: he learned from doing this that the the way the 674 00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,880 Speaker 1: body ends up looking as a result of the mummification process, 675 00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:41,880 Speaker 1: not the fact. Yeah, that it's been in the ground 676 00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:43,440 Speaker 1: for thousands and thousands. 677 00:36:43,040 --> 00:36:46,160 Speaker 3: Like the shriveled, wrinkled look. Yeah. Yeah, So that's one 678 00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:48,040 Speaker 3: thing I learned. That's a big thing to learn, though, 679 00:36:48,080 --> 00:36:51,640 Speaker 3: I mean, think about it. That's Egyptology hasn't really advanced 680 00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:54,279 Speaker 3: much in the last fifty years, has it not that 681 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:54,560 Speaker 3: I know. 682 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,480 Speaker 1: I know Heraldo didn't find squat, No he didn't. 683 00:36:57,600 --> 00:37:00,520 Speaker 3: No, that wasn't Heraldo. Heraldo looks for pones. 684 00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:03,440 Speaker 1: Oh, that's right. I watched that one. That was fun. 685 00:37:03,719 --> 00:37:05,839 Speaker 1: I was a youngster and I was so excited and. 686 00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:10,640 Speaker 3: Yeah, but so disappointed when it was just a total disaster. Yeah, 687 00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,560 Speaker 3: well it's it for mummies, right, chuck you anymore? I'm 688 00:37:13,680 --> 00:37:17,520 Speaker 3: I'm Are you mummied out? Yep? All right. If you 689 00:37:17,560 --> 00:37:20,200 Speaker 3: want to learn more about mummies, check out m M 690 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,360 Speaker 3: M I E S in the handy search bar at 691 00:37:22,400 --> 00:37:24,880 Speaker 3: howstuff works dot com. You can learn how to mummify 692 00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:29,200 Speaker 3: a chicken on wiki how and what else? I think 693 00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:31,960 Speaker 3: there might be a website for the mummies of wanna 694 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:37,520 Speaker 3: want to that's I think g u A n A 695 00:37:37,640 --> 00:37:41,440 Speaker 3: j u A t oh maybe sounds good to me? 696 00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:44,319 Speaker 1: Does it, you know, I think, uh, Matt and Rachel 697 00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:46,120 Speaker 1: from Cool Stuff on the Planet did a thing on 698 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:49,560 Speaker 1: the Egyptian Mummy. Oh yeah, or not Egyptian Mummy museumm 699 00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:51,000 Speaker 1: Wana Wanta Mummy musum. 700 00:37:51,040 --> 00:37:51,279 Speaker 2: Yeah. 701 00:37:51,360 --> 00:37:53,239 Speaker 3: Yes, Cool Stuff on the Planet check it out. That 702 00:37:53,320 --> 00:37:56,240 Speaker 3: is definitely worth watching as well. It's worth watching anyway. 703 00:37:57,040 --> 00:37:59,000 Speaker 3: And I said handy search bar somewhere in there, which 704 00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:00,600 Speaker 3: means I guess time for a listener. 705 00:38:00,680 --> 00:38:05,240 Speaker 1: Man, Hi, Chuck and Josh and Jerry. My name is Maddie. 706 00:38:05,239 --> 00:38:07,719 Speaker 1: I'm twelve years old. I love your podcast. I wait 707 00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:09,560 Speaker 1: all day at school to get home so I can 708 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:12,600 Speaker 1: check for new podcasts. They always help me fall asleep, 709 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:15,200 Speaker 1: but not because they're boring, but because it gets my 710 00:38:15,280 --> 00:38:17,360 Speaker 1: brain thinking and the brain gets tired. 711 00:38:17,440 --> 00:38:18,799 Speaker 3: That's cool, Mary, So it's fun. 712 00:38:19,239 --> 00:38:20,560 Speaker 1: I was wondering if you give a shout out to 713 00:38:20,640 --> 00:38:23,319 Speaker 1: my best bud, Casey. Casey has a tumor in his 714 00:38:23,400 --> 00:38:25,719 Speaker 1: leg and is in a wheelchair. He tells me he 715 00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:28,000 Speaker 1: is very miserable, but at least he gets to listen 716 00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,400 Speaker 1: to me talk about you guys and fun fact. He 717 00:38:30,440 --> 00:38:33,280 Speaker 1: also has a pet rooster named Lewis Sweet, and Lewis 718 00:38:33,360 --> 00:38:35,400 Speaker 1: is house trained so he just runs around the house. 719 00:38:35,760 --> 00:38:37,400 Speaker 3: That is awesome house strained chicken. 720 00:38:37,920 --> 00:38:41,040 Speaker 1: So please give Louis I'm sorry Casey a shout and 721 00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,759 Speaker 1: Louis while we're out. It sure make him feel better. 722 00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,000 Speaker 1: It would make his day or even his year. And 723 00:38:46,080 --> 00:38:47,680 Speaker 1: tell me which podcast you're going to put it on, 724 00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:50,200 Speaker 1: because I am just twelve and some of them are inappropriate. 725 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:54,799 Speaker 3: Oh was this one appropriate? I don't know, Probably not, 726 00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:59,320 Speaker 3: the shaking the brain part out. We'll figure it out, okay, 727 00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,200 Speaker 3: We'll tell them to just listen to the listener mail 728 00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,000 Speaker 3: and let it parents listen to the rest. 729 00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,120 Speaker 1: And also a suggestion the infamous story of that French 730 00:39:07,200 --> 00:39:09,800 Speaker 1: queen who said let the meat cake. I don't remember 731 00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:14,600 Speaker 1: her name, that's uh Marie Antwin, Marie Antoinette. That was 732 00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,520 Speaker 1: Kirsten Dunst. And remember I do not have Facebook, so 733 00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:19,160 Speaker 1: please answer me by email, she says. 734 00:39:19,680 --> 00:39:21,680 Speaker 3: And then oh is it she? Is it d d 735 00:39:21,880 --> 00:39:24,080 Speaker 3: or tt It's d d oh okay. 736 00:39:24,239 --> 00:39:29,800 Speaker 1: And then her signature is potato in a mushroom for Maggie. 737 00:39:29,840 --> 00:39:30,880 Speaker 1: I don't even know what that means to all the 738 00:39:30,920 --> 00:39:33,440 Speaker 1: kids are saying it these day. Really, yeah, all right, 739 00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:34,880 Speaker 1: potato and a mushroom everybody. 740 00:39:34,920 --> 00:39:38,000 Speaker 3: You just said, Maggie, it's Maddie, right, Maddie. Okay, Maddie, 741 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:40,880 Speaker 3: thanks for that email. Maddie. Did we give a shout 742 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:42,040 Speaker 3: out to Lewis and Casey? 743 00:39:42,200 --> 00:39:44,200 Speaker 1: Well, Casey, we hope you're feeling better, but I'm sorry 744 00:39:44,239 --> 00:39:46,279 Speaker 1: to hear about that, and I hope you're up and 745 00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:47,320 Speaker 1: around before. 746 00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:47,279 Speaker 2: You know it. 747 00:39:47,360 --> 00:39:50,320 Speaker 3: Take care of Lewis. Yes, if you're an egyptologist and 748 00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,440 Speaker 3: you have some good mummy stories, we want to hear it. 749 00:39:52,520 --> 00:39:52,719 Speaker 4: Yeah. 750 00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:54,800 Speaker 3: You know what, if you have any good mummy story, 751 00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:57,000 Speaker 3: we want to hear it, wrap it up in an 752 00:39:57,040 --> 00:40:01,520 Speaker 3: email and send that email to stop for podcast at 753 00:40:01,520 --> 00:40:05,920 Speaker 3: HowStuffWorks dot com. 754 00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:09,080 Speaker 1: Stuff you Should Know is a production of iHeartRadio. 755 00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:13,920 Speaker 4: For more podcasts myheart Radio, visit the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, 756 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:15,880 Speaker 4: or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.