The Mask of Tutankhamun
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A Sphinx-sized mask of Tutankhamun honestly sounds rad as hell and I’m all for using the world’s gold reserves for making it.
Can you just imagine how much it would take to fix that nose?
@@ponyote cover it in gowd
Yasss
@@imperiumbrasiliae good enough for Tycho Brahe!
@@ponyote and justinian II :)
Saw this at the London exhibit in 1971(?) - we stood outside the museum queueing for an entire day and were only let in about 45 minutes before closing. The mask was the last item in the exhibition, enclosed in a clear glass cabinet with lights above it... a beautiful thing, and the colour of the gold was like nothing I''d seen before... Fantastic.
Yep, me too. On a school trip.
Yes, I went to see it on a school trip, too. I noticed that some of the Lapis Lazuli was missing from the head-dress, and two girls next to me wailed in unison, "it's broken!" A teacher who was nearby observed, "you would be a bit the worse for wear if you were 3000 years old", but the question has always bugged me: given that the mummy with its gold mask was encased within not one, but three sarcophagi, how did the pieces become detached, where did they fall TO, and why had archaeologists not found them and stuck them back on again?
I saw that London exhibit too (I think it was 1972). A friend and I were on a two-month post-college backpacking tour of Europe. My experience was much like yours--we queued for a couple hours, not all day, but it was worth it. The exhibit came to New York (which is near to where I live) a few years later and was the hottest of hot tickets. People were paying scalpers hundreds of dollars for tickets. I felt so smug that I could say "Oh that old thing? I saw that in London a few years ago".
I saw this 50 years ago when it was on show at the British Museum. I travelled to London just to see the exhibition and queued for 4 hours to get in. There were so many people wanting to see the exhibition, which included lots of other artefacts and jewellery from the tomb, that people were shuffled through making sure no one lingered too long and caused a bottleneck. It was the most impressive exhibition I've ever seen with lots of beautiful and interesting items in addition to the mask. It had low lighting to simulate the impression it would have created when Howard Carter first saw it with the gold glowing in the darkened rooms. Magical.
I see this in Cairo museum, guide told us that the real one is not allowed out of Cairo, and only replicated ones go on tours around the world.
@@oddsandwindsocks5905 That may be so now, but not 50 years ago.
@@heliotropezzz333 Nearly 50 years ago, in fact: the British Museum hosted it in 1972. My mother and I went so see it, but gave up as the queue was so long. I finally saw it in Cairo four years ago.
@@jdb47games You're right. My maths was right off. I was 17 at the time. I'm sure it was worth the wait until Cairo. I don't think I've ever seen such an impressive exhibition.
Ive been an egyptophile since I was a kid and collected magazines and pictures of Tut's treasures. Later, as a young adult in the US Navy, I had the honor of going to Cairo and seeing all the treasures in the museum. The most profound and life-realizing experience of my life up to that point. The mask is simply amazing and should be a wonder of the ancient world on its own.
I was lucky enough to see the mask in person as well. It truly is a marvel especially when you consider it's age.
I just came back from a month of travelling around Egypt and I must agree. That was simply the most impressive thing in the whole museum and one of the best things I've seen in Egypt.
@@mohamoudmohamud3896 Sounds wonderful. I was able to be there for only a few days.
@@landrum3893 if you ever go back, you must visit luxor - the temples and valley of the king's. Such wonderful places
@@mohamoudmohamud3896 That you found that to be the case impresses me. I got to see it at the Metropolitan Museum when the Egyptians generously allowed it to travel. I will never forget the impression I got that the eyes followed me as I walked by looking at it.
Tutankamun is actually incredibly important, marking the end of akenatens one god rule and a return to the older gods. He likely died without much notice and seems to have been buried in a hurry, that tomb layout is totally wrong for a male, and is something converted for the purpose possibly from a females tomb. It may even be only a small part of that females tomb with possible evidence of further tunnels hidden behind walls, and nefertiti hasnt been located yet. She was a very close relative and probably died a few years before, and as you mentioned that mask is strongly suspected of being nefertiti too. Ive never seen that other spelling of her name btw, but not surprised by it given her connection with akenaten. Its likely tutankamun had a similar version of his name tutankaten, but was changed when the religion swapped back.
Tutankhaten (sp?) is actually on the back of the throne but was modified to read Tutankhamun.
@@JohnJ469 id not heard that before about the throne. Thanks.
Between Tutankhamun and Akhenaten there's apparently evidence of 2 other pharaohs that served about a total of 4 years. One of those may have been his mother, acting as a sort of regent. Considering there's still questions about his death, I hope with Zawahi's no longer hiding dozens of sites and tombs he's known about for decades, maybe there will finally be some answers about the dynastic changeover Tut belonged to and that of the Rameses'.
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@@walteringle2258 When you consider what Ai got up to anything is possible. Vizier to Ahkenaten, Nefertiti after he died then Tutankhamun and then Ankhesenamun after Tut died. Then, amazingly, the Hittite Prince (and his entire entourage) sent to marry Ankhesenamun disappear and Ai gets to marry the widowed Queen and become Pharaoh.
Nothing sussed there at all.
I had the privilege of seeing all of the Tut exhibits in the Cairo museum. An experience I will remember for the rest of my life.
Me too! Aside from the mask, my favourite piece of jewelry was the necklace with the pale green glass scarab. I'm trying to save to go to Egypt next year as it the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Tut's tomb but it's so expensive! ☹️
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@U Toob Doesn't like the Truth. ?? What lies are you speaking of?
@@michaelduncan2759 Ikr? But I'm not going to waste my time asking. I have better things to do, lol
@@linda10989 miss Linda, just curious as to what lies they believe they have been told. I enjoy the spectating on the ignorance of others. Cheap entertainment. 🤣
"I'm not that bright." Simon, you're the OGBB Boy with the Blaze. Do you know how many days I found out things because of you?
Truly, his humility is his greatest trait.
Hes just the face, doesnt have any other input im sure?
Fact boi not knowing things is pure heresy of the highest form we shall not forget this day LOL
I'm so humble. It's really amazing.
@@Ghostvertigo Today, we definitely Found Out. Glorious.
@@Sideprojects don't think the fact you hearted your own humbled comment went unnoticed.
So beautiful, and it was meant to be buried and never seen again. Like burying the Mona Lisa. Its mind blowing
Great point, except the mona Lisa isn't really a beautiful painting....it's smaller then most people think, 2 feet 6 inch by 1 foot 9? Not a good comparison
@@jamesmeppler6375I very well understood what he meant. No need to try to put someone down for sharing an interesting thought.
They were never really meant to be 'seen' by the common people; they were meant for the use of the king. And the king would continue to use it in the afterlife. Makes perfect sense once you realign your assumptions.
Imagine all the priceless artwork in all the other pharaohs' tombs that was melted down just for the gold. It's enough to make you cry.
Not everything is meant to be seen by everyone
Also worth mentioning that the tomb was extensively photographed with the most advanced cameras at the time...glass plate. Which btw had a resolution that would is hard to attain with todays digital cameras.
Wow that’s interesting! I didn’t know that. I spend a significant portion of any free time....in my electronics lab, over in the corner I have a hobby laser and optics setup. With a real optics breadboard and TestBench. Most of the stuff I get really cheap pennies on the dollar at industrial options and from academia sells.
Always messing with lasers, sensors, optics, and modern high end camera sensors (ccd’s).
Mostly spectrometry experiments and such.
I had no idea glass plate photography methods were such high definition. How is that even possible? I’ve need read more about that.... sounds really cool.
@@hullinstruments Glass plate photography did not have the problem of the"grains" which appear in later photography methods. The resolution of glass plate photos is determined only by the quality of the lens focus and steadiness of the tripods. There are cases where researchers have been able to zoom in on wide angle photos and read the small print on newspapers in the background.
@@andymanaus1077 glass plates have grain. It’s not as obvious because of size of negative.
The glass was eventually replaced with film sheets which one can still purchase.
Glass plate has no color and less dynamic range than digital.
Big sensor does same thing as big negative.
Not entirely true. No color
Digital sucks ass!!!
It's ok, Simon, we all thought weird things when we were kids. 🤗
The beard of wisdom gave him knowledge of all that happened and will happen. All hail Simon's beard.
@@cloroxble_ach9030 😃👍🏻 Very wise words. All hail Simon's beard!!!
As a kid?!?!?! A few years when I first heard the word misogynist I thought it meant a person who gives massages!
@@DragonKingGaav LOL! I can see how you might think that...makes sense to me actually.
***you neglected to hail the beard though. The Gods won't be very happy***😉
When I was a kid I was convinced elevators were small waiting rooms you stood in while the store workers changed all the shelves and displays. They were so fast the whole floor shook.
I saw it in the 1970s British Museum Exhibition. We had to queue around the block outside for two hours. It's an amazing and very spooky item. The irony of the tomb was, that the boy king Tutankhamun was buried there by his usurper, whose tomb was raided and desecrated, and that that tomb, was supposed to be his tomb originally. The contraversy about the mask has lead to a theory that he was buried in a tomb chamber, in front of another tomb which had its enterance sealed.
We had it in Washington DC at the National Gallery of Art in the mid 70s as well, probably after you. We also stood in line for hours. With a large family, we just traded places over time and the non-line standers went to visit the other museums on the Mall. I remember seeing the exhibit and it was wonderful. My parents and grandparents also got a catalogue of the exhibition, which I poured over as a child and pre-teen. When my now-18-year old son was about 3, we got to see a new exhibit at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. The mask was not part of the exhibit. It kind of felt like when my parents' or grandparents' moved or retired and visiting their old furniture in a new, smaller condo.
The way you said his name as a kid is actually how we say it in Egypt
exactly > Tut Ankh Amun (its not one word!)
The emphasis is on the "MOON" at the end. If you watch any TV documentary, Egyptologists always pronounce it that way.
All of my King Tut Knowledge comes from Simon and Steve Martin.
That’s valid 😂
Good one!
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I was humming the song the WHOLE TIME
Now when I die,
Now don’t think I’m a nut,
Don’t want no fancy funeral,
Just one like old King Tut.
King Tut…
It helps to understand that his mother Nefertiti was condemned shortly after her death as was her husband Ankh en-Aton (Echnaton) by the very priesthood the couple fought during their reign over the "right belief". So actually the son recevied the precious burial offers of his mother - becuase he reinstated the priests - while she was left rotten in a rather insiginificant grave. Never underestimate a vengeful priesthood...
The right belief was about making Amun the supreme God no? Which is why Tutankamun has that name. Tut Ankh Amun which translates into: In the image of Amun.
Is this about the moon god vs sun god feud? Its very interesting.
It’s a comforting thought to know how wrong and weird of thoughts so many others have had. We are United in this human experience
Phew, thought I was the only one who wanted to eat puppies
@@mungmungthethird1664 not alone brother, not alone
“Who put this weak ass chin on my death mask!? Nefertiti, give me yours, wench!”
Ahhh… the past was the worst. 😅
Am I right Peter?!
LOL!! That mutha looked like Fri 13th Jason Voorhies or SLOTH from the Goonies!!
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Simon: "NOOOOOOOOO!!!"
Cinemasins: ......no
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Saw this 40 years ago when the treasures were on tour. What looks garish in photographs is breathtaking IRL.
Me too I saw the mask in the treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition in Seattle. I lived just across the border in White Rock British Columbia Canada and so we had a day trip to puget sound and then to the museum. I was a little disappointed because I wanted to see the actual mommy itself . But the treasures were very memorable and very beautiful.
This is still one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen. Ancient Egyptian culture is so fascinating to me.
When I saw it 4 years ago, I just stood there with my mouth agape for five minutes while shaking my head in disbelief at how beautiful it is.
Every once in awhile something appears that reinforces just how truly talented people of all cultures and time periods really were. The artists who created that were absolute masters of their craft.
The Egyptians didn’t make that mask, do you realise the symmetry that’s in that mask? Almost impossible to recreate today, definitely not made by ppl that could only build mud brick homes
@@Sumcant Get out of here with that aliens built the pyramids nonsense.
Some people lived in mud brick homes, others lived in palaces. Some people farmed, others created art. Some people were builders, others were warriors.
People of 6,000 years ago could be just as intelligent and skilled as people today, they just didn't have the benefit of thousands of years of built up knowledge and materials yet. Sculpture is one of the first arts to develop in ancient societies after painting, and gold is one of the _easiest_ metals to work because its so soft.
Your dismissive attitude towards all of the smart, talented, inventive people in our past that laid the groundwork for the world we enjoy today is just disrespectful and ignorant.
@@HermanVonPetri did I say aliens? When did I say aliens? How’s about academics admit they don’t know shit past 4K ago, and the admittance of mankind’s past being a lot older than we are taught, the ancient Egyptians that we know of today didn’t build the pyramids, nor did aliens, but simply inherited it all from a far older civilisation ( of humans )
His expression is an awakened expression and stares out at us throughout time...
He's cross- eyed...
@@ChristmasLore 😆
Age 10 me saw the mask when the Tutankhamun exhibition came to the British Museum in 1972. It was displayed in a glass case at my eye level at the end of a corridor and the long approach was utterly mesmerising. 10/10 for whoever set that up.
As a kid in the 70s I found myself alone in a dark room with the mask. It had one spotlight on it as it sat on a pedestal at eye level. Eerie feeling being alone with that thing. It looks right through you.
I saw this at the Cairo museum, and it is pretty impressive, although smaller than I pictured, and I didn't think that it was the size of the sphinx.
I would happily accept a gold Sphinx that is only the size of the Pharaonic face mask.
I got to see this a a 6th grader in LA about 1975! I still Recall CLEARLY the Color of the pure GOLD, how frustrated I was with friends and teachers who just wanted to run past, while I had studied the whole deal and wanted to just be "WITH" it all!
We must have seen the same tour. As it moved north and hit Seattle I saw it as well.
I saw this exhibit and the one 25 years later. First one was better
For anyone interested the his entire collection which include many items that was never displayed before will have its own hall in the new grand Egyptian museum there will be around 5500 piece that was discovered in the tomb the museum is expected to open next year
"Feels a bit harsh doesn't it?" The accident itself was no big deal. Not telling anyone and trying to cover it up? = trial. There's a word that's fallen out of favor in recent times - accountability.
I grew up thinking a statue in Munich was large. When I saw it in person I was a little disappointed by it. I think we all grow up thinking some bs.
I've seen the mask in a 1979 exhibit tour. It is very exquisite. Thanks for doing this. It's nice to learn more about it. You're awesome, Simon. And no reason to be embarrassed for your childhood impressions, we all have misconceptions from that time period of our lives.
PBS has a documentary called The Ultimate Tut that talks about the mask and his death.
Well worth a watch for more on this subject.
Got to see "The Treasures of Tutankhamun" in Los Angeles when I was in 8th grade. My school (Simons) sent a select group of students. We got to browse the exhibit as long as we liked. I still have the souvenir postcards and book I purchased from the gift shop. We also got to visit the Museum of Natural History. I will never forget the mummified body of Ramses II. I thank my art teacher, Mr Simmons, for recommending that I be included in this field trip.
I got to see the exhibit when it was in Seattle, Washington. It was really cool getting to see it in person and all of the other artifacts that were with it.
I saw the mask when it toured the world in the the summer of 79. I was in line at the DeYoung Museum waiting to go in while SkyLab was crashing to earth the same day and we were listening to coverage of that on the radio while in line. It took hours to get up to the display case with the mask. I have to say that it was worth the wait.
Thank you for your videos, I really enjoy all your channels and look forward to all of your content.
I have to admit to suddenly feeling the urge to laugh when the beard incident was mentioned, as it reminded me of the scene in "The Goonies," where Chunk knocked the nude statue off the table, broke the Greek God's---personality---then glued it on upside-down. (I also wonder if any of them were running around in circles, running into each other, and make Stooges' "Woo-woo!" noises. [Why am I smelling pungent fumes in the middle of the night!?])
I do remember that scene!😜
@Super Sprout! Classic!
Tut's name has been spelled in at least three different ways, depending on how they spelled the name of the god Amun: Tutankhamun, Tutankhamen, Tutankhamon. Just remember, the movie Stargate was right: there is some confusion about the vowels in the language of ancient Egypt.
Love hearing things Stargate got right!
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We're always told how insignificant Tutankhamun was, but he had a major roll in history.
His father Akhenaten transformed much of Egypt's religion, and created something of a monotheistic religion around the worship of Aten, the god of sun-rays.
After Akhenaten's death, his son (then called Tutankhaten) restored the old religion and changed his name to Tutankhamun- replacing Aten with Amun.
It was a major event in Egypt's history. He died young, and the 18th Dynasty died with him, but his short reign wasn't insignificant.
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@@AtheistOrphan I'm so embarrassed right now. Rock and role my friend! Thanks for the correction.
I've seen it in person when I went to Egypt back in 2019, it is really amazing craftsmanship.
I love it when Simon pokes fun at the video subject and himself! We all thought those things about king tut🤣🤣 your laugh is the best!
Had a print of this in my bedroom growing up. Great video!
Towards the end, Simon calls him "Twotankerman" several times!
The multiple different pronunciations throughout were kinda driving me nuts.
@@davidlylejones yeah he berates 'himself' (us) at the beginning of the video for getting the pronunciation wrong and then wobbles between them himself throughout...
This is why the media started calling him "King Tut".
"Two-tank-a-MOON" is the correct pronunciation. That's why he keeps saying it. If you watch any TV documentary on this, that is the way it's pronounced by experts.
I actually learned quite a bit from this. Thanks!
Please do a video on construction of st Peter’s Basilica.
Please sir!
The most beautiful piece of ancient artwork,period!
I saw this and more in Chicago when it traveled to the science and industry museum. As a child I was fascinated with the shiny objects. Now I realize that I had been a witness to a spectacular experience.
Amo l'Egitto 🇪🇬 dall'Italia 🇮🇹 siamo uno di fronte all'altro nel Mediterraneo e questa è una cosa meravigliosa🇪🇬🇮🇹❤
Got to see this when it came to LACMA in 1978. I have to say this is the single most impressive thing I have ever seen! It is by far the gaudiests bling on the planet!
As a young lad, say 10/11 I was allowed to stay up late one night with my dad. He was watching a documentary on Tutankhamen. However as a young lad I misheard. Therefore about 45 mins into the show I asked my dad about the camel.
He replied" What camel?"
I said, the two ton camel.
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No lie I could not get my head around the name thus saw Egypt, thought camel and guessed it was about a bloody massive 🐫.
To be clear at the time I heard it as " two ten Ka mun"
May I recommend an episode about the Sears Roebuck Catalog? Lots of crazy things they had for sale over the decades.
ever since I was a kid Tutankhamun has facinated me. thanks Simon.
I knew quite a bit about Tutankhamun as a child because my hometown of Dorchester in south England has a Tutankhamun museum! It's actually a cool little museum.
Never fails to fascinate me. I've seen the exhibit when it originally traveled to the US back in the early 70s...and saw the remarkable replica exhibit that was on tour a few years ago which portrayed the precious objects' in their museum-created doppelgangers as well as the shrines and other grave goods which was really quite remarkable as well as wonderfully explained. One aspect of the mask however that I've never seen explained is the little hole on the mask's left side where the head-dress flows down over the pharaoh's shoulder. Is it there to stabilize the royal flail in arms-crossed position over the effigy's upper chest, or was it as a result of being casually poked with a tool?
The initial breakage was an accident, and it would have been fine if they'd notified someone immediately. The damage done through repeated attempts to hide the event? That is willful and criminal.
Maybe they would have been fine. Or perhaps Egyptian law is a little bit harsher than in western countries and they believed they would be punished regardless.
Breaking it was stupidity. For covering it up they should be shot. Sadly this is far from the only piece from that collection that has been damaged at that museum. They shouldn't be allowed to take care of any of it.
@@Wooargh yikes
If you lived in a country with a corrupt government and court system you would try to cover it up and pray to God that it doesn't get noticed.
@@Wooargh That's a nice North-Korea mentality you got there.
I SAW this mask in 1979 in LA at a King Tut treasure tour, and I tell you that THIS GOLD felt alive when you looked at it. It WAS MAGICAL in a strange way that I've never been able to shake. I was 10 when I saw it, and when I found out that the gold may have come from Solomons Temple, it made sense. THAT gold has seen the face of God.
King Tut.
Born in Arizona.
Lived in condo made of stone-a.
Hello good sir Simon! Not sure if this is a topic for SideProjects or another channel, but i would love to hear your assessment and potential conclusion(s) regarding the Stanford prison experiment.
Thank you in advance!
Fun fact, in Egypt we pronounce Tutankhamun's name, as Simon used to pronounce it as a kid.
Tut-ankh-Amun-Hequa-Iunu-Schema ? :D _Living Idol of Amun, Ruler over Heliopolis_ ..and it is only one of his 5 names
The Mask Of Tutankhamen sounds like the title of the next Indiana Jones film, or the title of a horror film-the ghost of the Boy King comes seeking revenge on the descendants of the team who unearthed the secrets of his tomb.
Lots better than that Crystal Skull garbage we got.
I think the museum staff should be prosecuted - knocking the beard off is a mistake, even gluing it back on in a panic is a mistake - but repeatedly doing it for a whole year and causing damage? That's criminal negligence.
Zahi Hawass, previous Supreme Council of Antiquities pronounces it Toot anhk Amun as well. It means living image of Amun.
Having once been a member of the archeological community, as well as being a history teacher, I am honestly impressed that you discussed the fact that it pretty much is confirmed now Nefertiti was the original intended owner.
I’ve heard it said that the other gold mask found on the body bears no resemblance to the more famous one, so may have also been intended for another. Maybe Smenkare?
I like that you tried to get out of the video at the end faster than I did 😄
The first part of breaking the beard off was an accident, but trying to cover it up is the issue. At the very least they should never be allowed near artifacts again.
I live in a small rural market town in Norfolk, UK, called Swaffham. It's the sort of place where half the inhabitants have lived there their whole life, the biggest event to occur inthe last 20 yrs was a McD's being built up the road.........But, Howard Carter comes from Swaffham!!
I watched a documentary a few weeks ago about this. While the casket, many funerary items, and tomb were almost certainly reused, the mask itself was proven to have been made for tut.
You could spend weeks on the Cairo museum and still be overwhelmed by the amount of artifacts crammed into there lol
As breathtaking as the artifact looks just staring into the eyes of it gives off a really creepy vibe
Glueing the beard back on - that is such a Mr. Bean move!!!
Relaxed and loose broadcast. Suits very well. Well done.
I got to see the Tut. treasure in the Cairo museum while I was stationed in the Saini with the Multinational Force Observers mission. Pictures don't do the mask justice. In person, it is almost unbelievable to see _that much_ gold in one place. It was all in one room with two AKM-armed guards standing at the entrance.
Imagine opening that sarcophagus and being greeted with that mask… it’s arguably the great archeological find in history.
1:10 - Chapter 1 - The discovery
3:00 - Chapter 2 - Mask
6:25 - Chapter 3 - The identity question
Simon can you do mega projects about Georgia Aquarium / state aquariums /California science academy please.
TH-cam: “How many channels do you want?”
Simon: yes
I was lucky enough to visit Cairo in early 1992 and saw this mask in the city museum it was very impressive something you don't forget.
I got to see it up close when it came to the Putnam Museum. I was in awe of it, very beautiful
8:50 "...leaving us to wonder what might have been in the other much larger tombs that had long before fallen prey to thieves." No kidding; imagining what was lost is almost staggering.
Lol. When I was a small child, I thought you got an extra hour of sleep every night when the time changed until it changed back.
Simon, you need to do a video on the Battle of 73 Easting. It was the last great tank battle of the 20th century between the Coalition and Iraq during the 91 Gulf War. Bonus points if you do a cold read in the style of Casual Criminalist.
I wonder what it would cost to make an exact replica out of the same materials using similar techniques.
Now you have to do a complete video on other Priceless Artifacts.
i saw the exhibit in seattle, i believe 1980. i don't remember much. i think i bought a pack of slides at the gift shop. pretty fired up. 9 years later i returned to the seattle center for metallica. i don't remember much of that either. tally ho king tut.
Fascinating
0:59 now you've gone and done it. You had to mock Tuts demons didnt you Simon?
Lol
I've forgotten which channel Simon was originally on. It's like he specializes in spin-offs now.
While the Pharaonic symbols of Upper and Lower Egypt's Dual Crown are properly prominently seen on Toot-And-Come-On’s golden death mask, it is worth the devotion of a few memory circuits to contemplate an Equine American Pharoah’s 2015 seizure of the Triple Crown.
It’s the defacto shorthand symbol for ancient Egypt, blown up macro style constantly. I wouldn’t blame anyone for thinking it’s tiny or gigantic, they hardly ever provide scale for it.
TO THE GALLOWS WITH THE BEARD BREAKERS! lol
To have taken a tour of the Cairo museum would have been the highlight of my life
So why not do it now?
You, sir, produced an excellent presentation.
It is concise interesting, informative, and makes for a good introduction to the mask.
The narration also helps much.
Here's an interesting tidbit about the mask that I learned from having intricately studied the tomb.
All three coffins represent females (the maternal lineage that produced the king, Tutankhamun).
The innermost coffin of gold represents his mother.
(Spoiler: it's not Nefertiti who is represented by the middle coffin, making her his grandmother.)
The gold mask inside the gold coffin represents his queen Ankhesenamun (as she extended the royal line of queens into the reign of Tutankhamun).
Why was the mummy in three coffins?
They represent
1 - his paternal grandmother (Tiye)
2 - his maternal grandmother (Nefertiti) and
3 - his mother (Nefertiti's eldest daughter)
The coffins are informative, not magical.
Things that are not understood are often deemed magical.
Thanks for the video.
The niche stuff is great!!
The sheer volume of stuff the Egyptians fit into the tomb is astounding.
I saw the mask in Cairo back in the 80s. I have never seen a picture that even comes close to it's real beauty
Apparently King Tut had two brothers with the same name as him. Tut Tut Tut.
From my research he would have originally been TutanAten named for the sun god who was the previous religious focus, it was a time of political turmoil and he was forced to allow the transition before his mysterious early death at possibly the hands of the priests ushering back the old gods after the Aten worship.
I saw this mask when the King Tut exhibit was shown at the Smithsonian museum in Washington D.C.
i have thought for some time the reason tuts is (so far) the only intact tomb found in the valley of the kings is not from grave robbers but wholescale goverment looting durning one or both of the intermediate periods. they needed a cash flow and there was all that gold and jewels in the valley of the kings and elsewhere. they missed tuts because his name was removed from the records and he was forgotten. as proof of this possibllity consider the only other unlooted tomb found the SILVER PHARAOH had things in his tomb that were repurposed from tombs in the valley of the kings
I love anything about ancient Egypt.
Pretty sure with all the positive comments Simon found his next round of videos .... all pertaining to Egypt.
Anyone else remember the cartoon about king Tut's mummy coming back to life and befriending a girl and her pet?
Yes!! I loved that show, the girl was called Cleo, right? I think the show was just called "Tutt" or something..HM...
I saw it at the british museum when I was 11 or 12 - the most incredible thing I ever gazed on. I still dont properly understand how they made it
I can tell how old a video is by the length of Simon’s beard.
I can't help but think about this in terms of what future historians will find of us... There has been so much focus and effort put into unearthing and decoding and unraveling supposed mysteries of tombs and sarcophaguses and such, will that still be happening hundreds or thousands of years from now but with *our* remains? What assumptions will be made about the significance of our burials, because I can imagine all the wrong assumptions and possible 'significance' placed onto some of the random rather insignificant-seeming things we do now. And I wonder how much we do that now, how much of all this 'historical significance' is actually true and not embellished or misunderstood. (Why yes, a 9-minute video does make me think for hours after...)