a gruesome Discovery took place in Egypt some years ago you want to hear about it 16 human hands carefully buried in four Eerie pits they didn't look too much like human hands at first since they were abnormally large but they were weirdly there were only right hands no left hands were in sight it turned out that it points to the practice of an ancient Dark Ritual old Egyptian art and tales talked of a ceremony where Warriors would present the right hand of their adversaries as proof of Victory and ask for gold in return Egyptians believed
in the afterlife so cutting off someone's hand meant you cut off their power eternally guaranteeing this type of defeat was interesting to the winning party here the fight was between Egyptians versus hixus who lived in what was once known as Canaan Egypt has always been the center of some history changing findings and some time ago this Papyrus was found if we stretched it open it would be just a tad bigger than the height of a skyscraper the world's tiniest skyscraper I mean which is located in witcha Falls Texas when humans didn't write on their Notes
app they wrote on this thing made from the medulla of a Papyrus plant around 2,000 years ago ancient Egyptians wrote something reminiscent of a book where they describe most of their ferary traditions and their visions of the afterlife it's considered one of the the most important texts from ancient Egypt and is still sold in bookstores to this day this ancient manuscript was Unearthed from a chamber located just south of the Pyramid of doer located in Sakara oh yes doer is the oldest Pyramid in Egypt and not the Giza Pyramids like most people think so recently
the site of Sakara buzzed with excited archaeologists who probably found one of Egypt's oldest complete mummies they believe that this beautiful and well preserved mummy was that of a wealthy man he was discovered in a deep shaft covered in layers of gold leaves there are many symbols that show he was an important and wealthy man like the band he wore on his head the bracelet on his chest and the fact that he was embalmed with a tunic which was reserved for Egypt's finest the most exciting part of the entire Discovery was finding the resting place
sealed with mortar just as the ancient Egyptians had left it 4,300 years ago now this may sound weird but back in 2008 archaeologists discovered a missing pyramid now it went missing because it deteriorated over the span of 4,000 years today you can only see its base it was a pretty important site back in ancient times it is said that around the area of the pyramid the Ancients hosted a special type of ceremony where High priests would carry mummified remains of sacred Bulls now here's a fun fact ancient Egyptians believe that that AIS Bulls were Earthly
incarnations of the city deity of Memphis and was connected to rights of fertility it wasn't just any AIS bull though they needed to be all black with a single white Mark between its horns and a bunch of very specific characteristics they were selected by the local priests and honored until they passed away after that they were mummified and buried in underground galleries meanwhile this missing pyramid sort of disappeared around the 1800s it was a German archaeologist who first found it in the village of Sakura he called it the Headless pyramid when he first found it
but then years after the official Discovery the desert sand came along and covered the whole thing there were some excavations between the 19th and 20th centuries but they weren't too systematic that's why scientists were so thrilled when they dug an entire pyramid's base after removing the 25- Ft mound of sand that was covering it oh and it turns out American archaeologists are Excavating a cemetery in Egypt that could contain over a million mummified bodies so far archaeologists have dug around 1,700 mummies one of the main differences from other classic Egyptian mummies is that these people
weren't Kings and Pharaohs they were commoners that most likely lived about 1,500 years ago when Egypt was controlled by the Roman and Byzantine Empires the name of the cemetery is cool though the way of the water buffalo just in case you want to check it out on your next trip other than bulls and Buffalos ancient Egyptians also like baboons are you seeing a pattern here in the beginning of the 20th century archaeologists discovered a site filled with mummified baboons in a place called guess what the valley of monkeys an animal wouldn't have been mummified if
it wasn't considered important certain animals were more important than others since they were linked to specific deities jackals were connected to a new the ancient god of the afterlife and cats were likened to the female deity basted baboons were a pretty big deal since they were believed to be connected to th the deity of wisdom and adviser to raah one of Egypt's Supreme deities the archaeologists who studied these animals weren't too happy they think these baboons were kept inside and were deprived of sunlight for most of their lives they had extreme vitamin D deficiencies and
they were poorly fed maybe Thoth got angry with these baboon Keepers just a guess since there's never a boring day for archaeologists in Egypt they also found human mummies with golden tongues since Egyptians were all about the afterlife they believe that golden tongues might help a person speak once they pass to the other side I mean it's a long shot but hey why not some of these mummies were placed in wooden coffins with Goods such as necklaces Pottery golden artifacts in the shape of lotus flowers and scary beetles and iPhones yeah just kidding a new
Temple was also Unearthed recently in Egypt scientists believe it was dedicated to honor Zeus casos that deity would be a cross between Zeus the almighty Greek deity of the sky and mount kasos while digging around the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt archaeologists spotted two pink Granite columns poking out of the ground and bingo they believe these columns represented the Temple's front gate and collapsed during an earth Quake many years ago and speaking of deities there weren't only super serious deities recently scientists unearth a golden ring in a city south of Cairo no froto it's not magical
it was a normal gold ring but it had the depiction of the deity of fun officially named best this deity is often described in sacred texts as a happy chubby dwarf today many tattoos we get are sort of deprived of any sense and are made of aesthetic pures only in ancient Egypt though women would get tattoos as a token of protection for child birth that's what scientists think at least around the Nile region scientists found some mummies that had well preserved tattoos which is a rarity since the skin deteriorate so easily two of these women
tattooed their lower backs and the drawings were simple they were mostly pictures including that same chubby dwarf we just talked about best he also had a side hustle as the protector of women during childbirth now would you believe me if I told you ancient Egyptians invented robots no well that's because that's not entirely true sure they were astronomers mathematicians and engineers and somehow they also squeezed an eccentric invention into that package an automated deity some scientists called haor this wooden statue had been in the Metropolitan Museum of Art for years before someone noticed it secret
with the help of an x-ray machine specialist discovered a mechanical oper ating system inside it the pulley like axis goes from the statue's shoulder to her left leg when the system rotates the statue raises and lowers her hand hey pick me pick me I got my hand up here that's it for today so hey if you pacified your curiosity then give the video a like and share it with your friends or if you want more just click on these videos and stay on the bright side
