sure they may be a little bit creepy but
you have to admit that they’re
fascinating to welcome to watchmojo.com
it or counting down the five most
amazing facts he probably didn’t know
about mummies and mummification
number five mummification was a lot more
complex than you’d think
right mummy’s ready for his mystical
journey making mummy is not just
wrapping a corpse and toilet paper or
bumper stickers and calling it a day
it’s actually a very complex process
that was mastered over 4000 years ago in
Egypt while the level of intricacy
varied depending on the social class of
the deceased here are some of the
fanciest steps first they pulled the
brain out through the nose with a hook
or by using a solvent they then pulled
out the organs cleaned the emptied
abdomen with palm wine and other
aromatics filled the abdomen with herbs
so to back up and store the body in
Natron a natural salt for 70 days it was
only then that the body could be wrapped
and presented to the family
number four Egyptian mummy masks were
basically made out of old newspaper
of course pharaohs and other important
Egyptians had burial gear made with gold
and precious stones but the burial masks
of common folk were made from common
materials masks were often made from
papyrus an early form of paper glued
together in layers like papier-mache
often those papyri were previously used
scientists are now able to carefully
unglue the layers they’ve found a lot of
repurposed boring old personal letters
and business documents but also some
classical Greek poems and sacred texts
researchers at Acadia Divinity College
Nova Scotia recently found what they
think might be the oldest known copy of
a biblical text the Gospel of Mark which
might date back to before the Year
ninety a D
number three a Mummy’s foot holds the
world’s oldest functioning prosthetic
walk like an Egyptian
while it was believed that the Roman
capital egg was the oldest prosthetic in
existence new research has shown that an
ancient Egyptian prosthetic toe found on
a mummy is older predating the leg by
hundreds of years
an Egyptian Museum in Cairo holds an
artificial toe taken from a mummy dated
to around 600 BC research at the
University of Manchester was done by
testing two volunteers who were missing
a big toe by replicating the prosthetic
and Egyptian sandals both amputees were
able to walk well with the toe and
actually reported it being quite
comfortable number 2 CT scans can tell
us a lot about a mummy by understanding
that process we may be able to help our
own society to learn which will help us
in our decision making not only could
mummies tell us about history but we
don’t even have to unwrap them to find
out curators at the British Museum are
collaborating with medical experts and
performing CT scans on mummies
essentially unwrapping them digitally
this gives them access to amazing
insights including what the mummy looked
like and what health problems they had
for instance they found plaque in the
arteries of two mummies signifying
cardiovascular disease and researchers
were shocked at the level of dental
decay and disease these people lived
with through the very modern technology
of CT scanning we are given more
personal insights into ancient culture
of this science Shikha put you all down
number one mummies are found all over
the world we are in serious trouble
while Egyptian mummies get most of the
attention including from us in this
video they have actually been found all
over the world including in South
America where the oldest man-made
mummies that chinchorros were created as
early as 5000 BC the Incas mummified
their venerated kings and in 1974 an
embalmed Chinese woman from the Han
Dynasty was found in a tomb amazingly
4,000 year old mummies were discovered
in Xinjiang China with distinctly
European features anthropologists
believe they are part of a little-known
indo-european people known as the Tok
Aryans so what’s your favorite fact
about mummies do you really want to know
would you prefer to just shoot us after
what I just saw I’m willing to go on a
little faith here for more
jewel-encrusted top tens and old
newspaper top fives be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
you have to admit that they’re
fascinating to welcome to watchmojo.com
it or counting down the five most
amazing facts he probably didn’t know
about mummies and mummification
number five mummification was a lot more
complex than you’d think
right mummy’s ready for his mystical
journey making mummy is not just
wrapping a corpse and toilet paper or
bumper stickers and calling it a day
it’s actually a very complex process
that was mastered over 4000 years ago in
Egypt while the level of intricacy
varied depending on the social class of
the deceased here are some of the
fanciest steps first they pulled the
brain out through the nose with a hook
or by using a solvent they then pulled
out the organs cleaned the emptied
abdomen with palm wine and other
aromatics filled the abdomen with herbs
so to back up and store the body in
Natron a natural salt for 70 days it was
only then that the body could be wrapped
and presented to the family
number four Egyptian mummy masks were
basically made out of old newspaper
of course pharaohs and other important
Egyptians had burial gear made with gold
and precious stones but the burial masks
of common folk were made from common
materials masks were often made from
papyrus an early form of paper glued
together in layers like papier-mache
often those papyri were previously used
scientists are now able to carefully
unglue the layers they’ve found a lot of
repurposed boring old personal letters
and business documents but also some
classical Greek poems and sacred texts
researchers at Acadia Divinity College
Nova Scotia recently found what they
think might be the oldest known copy of
a biblical text the Gospel of Mark which
might date back to before the Year
ninety a D
number three a Mummy’s foot holds the
world’s oldest functioning prosthetic
walk like an Egyptian
while it was believed that the Roman
capital egg was the oldest prosthetic in
existence new research has shown that an
ancient Egyptian prosthetic toe found on
a mummy is older predating the leg by
hundreds of years
an Egyptian Museum in Cairo holds an
artificial toe taken from a mummy dated
to around 600 BC research at the
University of Manchester was done by
testing two volunteers who were missing
a big toe by replicating the prosthetic
and Egyptian sandals both amputees were
able to walk well with the toe and
actually reported it being quite
comfortable number 2 CT scans can tell
us a lot about a mummy by understanding
that process we may be able to help our
own society to learn which will help us
in our decision making not only could
mummies tell us about history but we
don’t even have to unwrap them to find
out curators at the British Museum are
collaborating with medical experts and
performing CT scans on mummies
essentially unwrapping them digitally
this gives them access to amazing
insights including what the mummy looked
like and what health problems they had
for instance they found plaque in the
arteries of two mummies signifying
cardiovascular disease and researchers
were shocked at the level of dental
decay and disease these people lived
with through the very modern technology
of CT scanning we are given more
personal insights into ancient culture
of this science Shikha put you all down
number one mummies are found all over
the world we are in serious trouble
while Egyptian mummies get most of the
attention including from us in this
video they have actually been found all
over the world including in South
America where the oldest man-made
mummies that chinchorros were created as
early as 5000 BC the Incas mummified
their venerated kings and in 1974 an
embalmed Chinese woman from the Han
Dynasty was found in a tomb amazingly
4,000 year old mummies were discovered
in Xinjiang China with distinctly
European features anthropologists
believe they are part of a little-known
indo-european people known as the Tok
Aryans so what’s your favorite fact
about mummies do you really want to know
would you prefer to just shoot us after
what I just saw I’m willing to go on a
little faith here for more
jewel-encrusted top tens and old
newspaper top fives be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com
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