While not a misconception, I think one of the most mind blowing facts about Ancient Egypt I’ve read is how by the time cleopatra was ruler, the pyramids of Giza were ancient ruins, having been built 2500 years prior
I loved when he said you Egyptians left no record of how the Sphinx looked... They did. It's the freaking Sphinx, what grander record could they have kept???^^
Misconception: the Sphinx isn’t a single stone statue. A large part of the Sphinx is cut from limestone bedrock, but the paws and tail are almost entirely made from bricks, and it seems that throughout history whenever cracks formed in the Sphinx they use some form of concrete to bind the failing bits together.
Other misconception which should be addressed is simply terminology: Ancient Egypt does not denote Egypt during the Ptolemaic or later Roman era, that was actually the end of it. Ancient egypt is for the most part the bit between 3100 BC to about 330 BC (which was when the "Late Period" ended).
"There is something about this super popular thing that almost everyone is fascinated by that fascinates me" "There is something about ice-cream that I really like" See how dumb that is? In multiple ways too. Firstly, saying something like that is completely superfluous. It's the same as going into an ice-cream shop that's full of people, walk to the middle of the shop and loudly say "Something about ice-cream is really good". Secondly, for some reason you decided to make yourself look like even more of an idiot that can't understand something that even children have no problems with (why you are fascinated, interested etc. in something). Lastly, why say just that? The only valid reason other than pure idiocy is for cheap likes. It's pretty impressive to somehow cram so much stupidity into a single sentence comment though.
You shouldn't think to hard about it. Logic isn't exactly my forte.. I am excellent in creating things though. Hit me up if you have a cool concept. Pun intended.
It's actually thought that farmers, during a three-month (?) period when there wasn't any farming to do - I _think_ it was either during the dry season on the run up to the Nile flood, or during the flood itself - went to join a permanent team so they could earn money for their families. Did you know they went on strike, not for better conditions but for more make up!
That's what I heard too. The Nile valley is stupendously fertile but only for a few months out of the year. The rest of the time? They were engaged in public works like helping to build palaces and temples and pyramids and such. What he calls "civic duty" was probably much stronger than that, more like religious duty, since the Pharaohs were kind of divine, and the pyramids were supposed to be their "forever homes"
My comments above are related to this- the clays with cartoushes were thought to be Pharoah's "markers", given to workers who came and did their share and could present the marker to Pharaoh's grainery for assistance if the Nile flood didn't materialize- which did occur about every seven to ten years. Also the fact that at the 3100 bc end, their were about 12 dialects of Egyptian thought spoken from the Nile delta to the head waters- by 2500 or so, the languages of Egypt appear to have become much more common- the thought that Pharoah required everybody to speak "Pharoah's language" would make sense. FR
@@keenanweind1780 Some of the graffiti I've seen pics of from the chamber above the King's Tomb in Khafre doesn't much fit the idea of "nose to the grind stone slaves" either. FR
You can’t call Herodotus “History Daddy” without mentioning your perfect hair on both head and chest. I just realized you might be one of my history daddies
The biggest misconception of all is that these structures were built in the desert and not thousands of years earlier prior to the desertification of Northern Africa !
Too bad the Egyptologists are so stuck in their own beliefs that new evidence is rarely taken seriously. So basically if you look into a lot of the drama surrounding Egyptology then it can make you start to doubt they really know much at all... It’s still really awesome to speculate though 😊
Wasn't there also findings about the Sphinx being older than previously believed? That it showed water damage at a level that could have only been possible when Egypt was last under water?
That damage is there and high water could also have been caused by the large canal we have found traces of running from the East side of the Nile to near where Sphinx stands- and the Sphinx may well have been the "formal entry" for the workers, material and later celebrants coming to the Plateau. Lots of guesses, but Sphinx is definitely built of stone from right on sight- and part of it may be a natural geological feature, it is not entirely carved from "living rock" some of it is made from stones removed from the same acre or so that Sphinx sits on. If the canal were open during the known flood season, Sphinx would have been flooded many times- had it remained so throughout the Giza Building periods, Sphinx, built of sand stone, would be unrecognizable today. FR
I think a lot of people were told that in school, but i think the fact it was kept in a canopic jar says the opposite. I think their methods of removal changed over the years, but if it was waste they would not have kept it in the same way as the heart
The biggest misconception is that each brick of the pyramids was quarried and transported to the pyramids before being pulled or hoisted into place. It's more likely that the Egyptians mixed together the sand in the area and the flooded Nile river (during the rainy season) to make a type of concrete that was then poured into a mold for each brick. Thus working their way up each year and not needing an entire army of men to push/pull each brick.
I love how they love to act like they have any clue of what really happened 5 freaking thousand years ago. A strong sense of civic duty? Work yourself to death, in the hot desert sun. Working off debts, but not slavery. I mean we have documents that show they used slaves to build roads, but, just roads. They wouldn't use them for other things like building stuff.
I wasn't the biggest fan at fist, but I feel he has been slowly improving... and since that process has been going on for some time now, he's gotten really good!
I read somewhere early in the "mummy" popularity times (the discovery of them- not making them), people were grinding mummies up and mixing in liquuds to drink. For health? 🤔 Any truth to this?
Our mistake. We do use US units (however silly they may be) b/c ~70% of our audience is US-based, but we absolutely intend to show metric equivalents. We'll be more careful moving forward!
Never heard of the Napoleon story before. WTF? lol In French there's a joke in Astérix & Cléopâtre where Obélix makes the nose fall after Panoramix quotes Napoléon. But that's it.
The pyramids are much older than mainstream archeologists want to admit. Like the megalithic ruins found in Machu Piccu in Peru, the pyramids were built thousands of years before the time they are officially given credit to, the people of the time, did exactly like Mexico City and cities in Peru have done- found the megalithic ruins of past forgotten cultures and built on top of them, it's very obvious when you look at the engineering of the megalithic structures compared to the much shoddier work that is stacked on top of the Megalithic structures. This brings up the questions from people like me, how did the people in different areas of the world all use the same engineering patterns when constructing the megalithic ruins that can be found in places like Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, China, India, Peru, South America and North America, Mexico. and islands in the middle of the pacific ocean (like Easter Island.)
Best way to build anything in human history seems to have been faith. Though I sometimes stay up at night wondering how much further ahead we'd be as a species if we'd invested such efforts into science, technology, and improving the human condition (human rights, end slavery, equal rights, basic needs met by all, etc) instead. Now that's an achievement to brag about!
Despite what Zawi Hawass and his insistence on ignoring actual evidence says, the interior blocks show every sign of being cast, including heavier sediment and tiny fossils settling at the bottom of each block tested.
A theory not well supported by visible facts; cast or melted stones would be very homogeneous, very much the same throughout- a condition not found in any stones on the Plateau. Quite a few geologists and college geology departments have made this comment. The exact nature of a few of the techniques for carving and manipulating the stones are "works in progress" but the mechanics of cutting and shaping the stones has been deduced- the discoveries at the "City of the Builders" was revelatory to much of that. FR
Another misconception is that there is actually no Millenium Items in a Ancient Egypt, and Slifer was not actualy an executive producer. There was a real Pot of Greed but we don't know what it does.
I think the modern Western concept of forced labor can't be applied to Ancient Egypt at all. In many of the earliest civilizations, there was no coinage and the standard of payment was usually grain.
I don't think that the emojis != Hyroglyphs debate is done. Anyone can read "☠️💩L" and still understand despite it not being "the last shit". (Thank God for Deadpool or I would have had to use an aubergine and a peach and those two just invite TH-cam-trolls)
I mean...the Egyptians definitely did use slave labor though. Maybe not on the pyramids during that period, and maybe not within their own people, but they absolutely did have various classes of slaves or indentures. A couple Egyptologists like to deny it, but they're definitely not in the the majority.
@@ANTSEMUT1 Begin here, my friend. Sources on the bottom. It's not a completely scholarly source, but it's a great place to start. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt#:~:text=There%20were%20three%20types%20of,based%20on%20evidence%20and%20research.
I remember being told in school that they liquified the brain and drained it out of the nose because they thought it was just "head filler" instead of an important organ
funny. just saw another misconception videos where you clearly pointed out the diffrence between an hypothes and a theory. and now you, yourself use the word theory for example "the ramp rope-and-pulley system". thats clearly only an hypothes. else i would love too see some more regarding this bullshit technic ^^
Among many errors, when this guy said “hollowed ground” instead of “hallowed ground”...it was enough for me to lose credibility for the video and the writers.
The biggest misconception is the legend of Isrealites being enslaved in Egypt and then being led by Moses. Even if you take the most secular view and remove all the supernatural things, there simply isn't enough evidence for this (except Exodus, which is the claim, not evidence). I wish all the Yahweh worshipping religions would crumble, as they should
While you are right that there is no evidence of the Israelites Slaves leaving Egypt. But that doesn’t mean the story has no no symbolic or allegorical value. Also, and most importantly, just because you are not religious or ascribed to one of the abrahamic religions does not mean those religions should not exist.
@@andrewbedwell8186 I agree, if every religious person thought about their faith's stories as symbolic, the world would be a better place, imagine if NOT ONE person literally believed in holy land, the amount of wars that would stop...
@@PilsnerGrip I’m pretty sure people would find some other excuse to fight wars over. The Holly Land concept is an excuse and (at least as far as I am aware in the Christian Bible) is never mentioned in the either testament. The concept of the Holy Land (at least in terms of the crusades which I believe was where the term came from) was primarily used as an excuse by a bunch of medieval monarchs who wanted a reason to attack and raid the Middle East. You seam to be under this mistaken belief that religions are the problem and not the people who use them as an excuse.
As I recall reading or was it a documentary the ancient Egyptians never had a problem with foreigners or immigrants within their borders practising their faiths as long as it was done in private and you didnt push your beliefs onto local Egyptians.
Tut had a lot physical problems...because he was inbred, he suffered many maladies...Tut had a cleft palate and a curved spine, and was probably weakened by inflammation and problems with his immune system...he was unhealthy throughout his life...
Yeah, but that "murder mystery" could well have been started by a priesthood very unhappy with Akenaten- meaning, literally "child or son of the god Aten"- that appears to have been a faction within the Egyptian Hierarchy wanting to "dispense" with the role and strangle hold the priesthood and their literacy gave them over much of society. And it would suit a manipulative priesthood to take credit for a "murder" to "inform" any later wannabe miscreants about "what could happen to them". FR
I's is hard for me to deal with Mental Floss. These kids do a halfway job at research and are often just wrong. I would say that about 10% of MF content is questionable at best.
So your story is these cats straight out of the stone age, shit out the technology to build the most complicated structure ever then forgot how. Meanwhile ever other part of society advanced. Who's going to fix your misconceptions
She wasn't exactly. She was an Egyptian of Greek descent. Fun fact, she was the only Ptolemaic pharaoh to speak Egyptian. There were Egyptians in her lineage and was described as having darker skin than your average Greek. Mediterranean people generally have olive skin (brown, not green!). So whereas she wasn't a pure Egyptian (Arabic in today's terms), she was darker than your average Greek noblewomen. There are records of this, btw. Don't ask me to remember which ones - it's been a long time since university and it's gone midnight.
@@y_fam_goeglyd Scholars generally identify Cleopatra as essentially of Greek ancestry with some Persian ancestry. This is based on the fact that her Macedonian Greek family - the Ptolemaic dynasty - had intermarried with the Seleucid dynasty that ruled over much of West Asia. This notably included the first Cleopatra, Queen Cleopatra I Syra, wife of Ptolemy V Epiphanes. Cleopatra I of Syria was a descendant of the Seleucid Queen Apama, the Sogdian Iranian wife of Seleucus I Nicator, a Macedonian Greek companion of Alexander the Great.
"And that fancy bell that MEANS SUBSCRIBED"????! That's not the subscription button. Don't lie to get more people set up for notifications. EDIT: Speaking of people being subscribed, you guys lost another one.
The Bell appears only when you ARE subscribed. Clicking ON that bell activates Notifications. I see your point and I agree it's bad to bait clicks in any way. But: Technically, HE's right! YOU'RE wrong The Bell means you are subscribed That's a true statement
So why do all Egyptians depictions within the Egyptian dynasties portray them as such? Most importantly why do greeks and Roman's only claim them to be such?
Everyone knows Obelix knocked off the Sphinx’s nose when he was climbing it. I think it’s buried somewhere around there.
came here to write this :P
I thought is was caused when Jasmin and Aladdin distracted the stone carver......
Son, people don't even know what happened in Washington in January and we have it ON VIDEO. Don't give me this "everyone knows" bs.
While not a misconception, I think one of the most mind blowing facts about Ancient Egypt I’ve read is how by the time cleopatra was ruler, the pyramids of Giza were ancient ruins, having been built 2500 years prior
As an Egyptian I can confidently confirm that the Sphinx did indeed lose its nose during Aladdin and Jasmine's magic carpet ride 🧐
I loved when he said you Egyptians left no record of how the Sphinx looked...
They did. It's the freaking Sphinx, what grander record could they have kept???^^
Wasn't it Asterixe's and Obelixe's fault?
It’s always some joy riding youths
You hit it right on the nose
This is a whole new world of information, and we appreciate it.
Misconception: the Sphinx isn’t a single stone statue. A large part of the Sphinx is cut from limestone bedrock, but the paws and tail are almost entirely made from bricks, and it seems that throughout history whenever cracks formed in the Sphinx they use some form of concrete to bind the failing bits together.
Arthritis in construction workers, or labourers hasn’t exactly gone away, despite all our machines and technology.
Re. Pyramids: I heard that the laborers were paid in beer. I'm not kidding!
Ha, yes, we touched on that in our Food History episode about beer. Apparently each laborer got about 10 pints a day!
Other misconception which should be addressed is simply terminology: Ancient Egypt does not denote Egypt during the Ptolemaic or later Roman era, that was actually the end of it. Ancient egypt is for the most part the bit between 3100 BC to about 330 BC (which was when the "Late Period" ended).
There is something about ancient Egypt that fascinates me.
"There is something about this super popular thing that almost everyone is fascinated by that fascinates me"
"There is something about ice-cream that I really like"
See how dumb that is? In multiple ways too. Firstly, saying something like that is completely superfluous. It's the same as going into an ice-cream shop that's full of people, walk to the middle of the shop and loudly say "Something about ice-cream is really good". Secondly, for some reason you decided to make yourself look like even more of an idiot that can't understand something that even children have no problems with (why you are fascinated, interested etc. in something). Lastly, why say just that? The only valid reason other than pure idiocy is for cheap likes.
It's pretty impressive to somehow cram so much stupidity into a single sentence comment though.
@@MuscarV2 I actually would go into and ice cream shop and shout that.
You shouldn't think to hard about it. Logic isn't exactly my forte.. I am excellent in creating things though. Hit me up if you have a cool concept. Pun intended.
@@MuscarV2 You’re the guy in the ice cream shop telling people to shut their mouths about liking ice cream… and you think they’re the idiots? Lmao
@@MuscarV2 damn bro chill its a youtube video not a formal scripted dinner. so pressed abt what just move on
It's actually thought that farmers, during a three-month (?) period when there wasn't any farming to do - I _think_ it was either during the dry season on the run up to the Nile flood, or during the flood itself - went to join a permanent team so they could earn money for their families.
Did you know they went on strike, not for better conditions but for more make up!
That's what I heard too. The Nile valley is stupendously fertile but only for a few months out of the year. The rest of the time? They were engaged in public works like helping to build palaces and temples and pyramids and such. What he calls "civic duty" was probably much stronger than that, more like religious duty, since the Pharaohs were kind of divine, and the pyramids were supposed to be their "forever homes"
My comments above are related to this- the clays with cartoushes were thought to be Pharoah's "markers", given to workers who came and did their share and could present the marker to Pharaoh's grainery for assistance if the Nile flood didn't materialize- which did occur about every seven to ten years. Also the fact that at the 3100 bc end, their were about 12 dialects of Egyptian thought spoken from the Nile delta to the head waters- by 2500 or so, the languages of Egypt appear to have become much more common- the thought that Pharoah required everybody to speak "Pharoah's language" would make sense. FR
They also went on strike for beer (seriously)
@@keenanweind1780 Some of the graffiti I've seen pics of from the chamber above the King's Tomb in Khafre doesn't much fit the idea of "nose to the grind stone slaves" either. FR
These Misconceptions videos are amazing. I feel like we forget how similar ancient peoples were to us and vice versa
"history daddy"
You can’t call Herodotus “History Daddy” without mentioning your perfect hair on both head and chest. I just realized you might be one of my history daddies
The biggest misconception of all is that these structures were built in the desert and not thousands of years earlier prior to the desertification of Northern Africa !
Anyone else notice that he makes a face at the end of every sentence?
Thanks to saying “history daddy”, I now have a crush on him. Great.
Justin or Herodotus? 😂
@@eloquent2banal Yes. 😆
Someone played "got your nose" with the Sphynx but didn't really know how it's supposed to be played.
Too bad the Egyptologists are so stuck in their own beliefs that new evidence is rarely taken seriously. So basically if you look into a lot of the drama surrounding Egyptology then it can make you start to doubt they really know much at all... It’s still really awesome to speculate though 😊
Wasn't there also findings about the Sphinx being older than previously believed?
That it showed water damage at a level that could have only been possible when Egypt was last under water?
That damage is there and high water could also have been caused by the large canal we have found traces of running from the East side of the Nile to near where Sphinx stands- and the Sphinx may well have been the "formal entry" for the workers, material and later celebrants coming to the Plateau. Lots of guesses, but Sphinx is definitely built of stone from right on sight- and part of it may be a natural geological feature, it is not entirely carved from "living rock" some of it is made from stones removed from the same acre or so that Sphinx sits on. If the canal were open during the known flood season, Sphinx would have been flooded many times- had it remained so throughout the Giza Building periods, Sphinx, built of sand stone, would be unrecognizable today. FR
The Sphinx's nose was assimilated by the Borg.
I think a lot of people were told that in school, but i think the fact it was kept in a canopic jar says the opposite. I think their methods of removal changed over the years, but if it was waste they would not have kept it in the same way as the heart
Love your Egypt vids.
The biggest misconception is that each brick of the pyramids was quarried and transported to the pyramids before being pulled or hoisted into place. It's more likely that the Egyptians mixed together the sand in the area and the flooded Nile river (during the rainy season) to make a type of concrete that was then poured into a mold for each brick. Thus working their way up each year and not needing an entire army of men to push/pull each brick.
That might maje some sense.
Yesterday I learned that camels as beast of burden weren't common in Ancient Egypt.
Age of Mythology lied to me??? Lol.
and a certain book.
That's what they get for having Egyptian priests respond with "Greek" once selected :P
Well, it -is- called age of MYTHOLOGY ;)
But for some reason, the toe of the camel was common
Pretty funny and clever.
Thank you. 🍃
I like the sweater under the shirt look.
Justin's presentation skills are just getting better and better
I love how they love to act like they have any clue of what really happened 5 freaking thousand years ago.
A strong sense of civic duty? Work yourself to death, in the hot desert sun. Working off debts, but not slavery. I mean we have documents that show they used slaves to build roads, but, just roads. They wouldn't use them for other things like building stuff.
Justin is such a great and entertaining presenter!
I wasn't the biggest fan at fist, but I feel he has been slowly improving... and since that process has been going on for some time now, he's gotten really good!
I did not expect to learn anything, but I DID!
I dig your wallpaper!
Thank you, that was cool.
The Sphinx is the longest I got your nose game.
I read somewhere early in the "mummy" popularity times (the discovery of them- not making them), people were grinding mummies up and mixing in liquuds to drink. For health? 🤔
Any truth to this?
Yes, I believe the wealthy Victorians ground them up and ate/drank them because they believed it made them younger or something.
@@Nitro-Blue weird
Love your videos but can we not use US units of measurements when talking global facts like this for a global audience?
Our mistake. We do use US units (however silly they may be) b/c ~70% of our audience is US-based, but we absolutely intend to show metric equivalents. We'll be more careful moving forward!
Never heard of the Napoleon story before. WTF? lol In French there's a joke in Astérix & Cléopâtre where Obélix makes the nose fall after Panoramix quotes Napoléon. But that's it.
The pyramids are much older than mainstream archeologists want to admit. Like the megalithic ruins found in Machu Piccu in Peru, the pyramids were built thousands of years before the time they are officially given credit to, the people of the time, did exactly like Mexico City and cities in Peru have done- found the megalithic ruins of past forgotten cultures and built on top of them, it's very obvious when you look at the engineering of the megalithic structures compared to the much shoddier work that is stacked on top of the Megalithic structures.
This brings up the questions from people like me, how did the people in different areas of the world all use the same engineering patterns when constructing the megalithic ruins that can be found in places like Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, China, India, Peru, South America and North America, Mexico. and islands in the middle of the pacific ocean (like Easter Island.)
At 6:53 ...you forgot to mention that Tut's wife was his half sister...
"Hollowed" ground?
The pyramids made beer, a water fall of beer would poor out and flood the sphinx and canals would take the beer down river in ceramic lined boats.
Queen A: I need a man!
Officials: Umm... we only have your half brother available...
Queen A: Good enough.
The mystery of the pyramids is not only how they were built but why and the Egyptians said nothing about it.
I love your map :)
There were never any Hebrews as slaves in Ancient Egypt
am I wrong about the sphinx not being a single stone, but instead being made of bricks as well
Just one large piece of limestone: www.smithsonianmag.com/history/uncovering-secrets-of-the-sphinx-5053442/
Best way to build anything in human history seems to have been faith. Though I sometimes stay up at night wondering how much further ahead we'd be as a species if we'd invested such efforts into science, technology, and improving the human condition (human rights, end slavery, equal rights, basic needs met by all, etc) instead. Now that's an achievement to brag about!
An interesting theory is that the stones weren't mined but rather cast. Like ancient concrete
Despite what Zawi Hawass and his insistence on ignoring actual evidence says, the interior blocks show every sign of being cast, including heavier sediment and tiny fossils settling at the bottom of each block tested.
A theory not well supported by visible facts; cast or melted stones would be very homogeneous, very much the same throughout- a condition not found in any stones on the Plateau. Quite a few geologists and college geology departments have made this comment. The exact nature of a few of the techniques for carving and manipulating the stones are "works in progress" but the mechanics of cutting and shaping the stones has been deduced- the discoveries at the "City of the Builders" was revelatory to much of that. FR
haha actual gibberish. great stuff
Another misconception is that there is actually no Millenium Items in a
Ancient Egypt, and Slifer was not actualy an executive producer.
There was a real Pot of Greed but we don't know what it does.
A million of these.
for another planet
I think the modern Western concept of forced labor can't be applied to Ancient Egypt at all. In many of the earliest civilizations, there was no coinage and the standard of payment was usually grain.
Steve Martin
I don't think that the emojis != Hyroglyphs debate is done.
Anyone can read "☠️💩L" and still understand despite it not being "the last shit".
(Thank God for Deadpool or I would have had to use an aubergine and a peach and those two just invite TH-cam-trolls)
2:46 it's just slavery with extra steps
So glad he didn’t say aliens
Just got a Histocorrectomy
"Early Greek and Roman scholars thought..."
...um, wouldn't they have known? Otherwise, the Rosetta Stone wouldn't exist...
Imagine pulling someone's brain out through their nose lol
The great pyramid is at least 10,000 years old.
Are you my Mummy?
"remove the heart from a departed commoner so the privileged can enjoy a peasant free eternity" is the most fucked up shit I've ever heard lol
Thank you for not wearing an undershirt. 😍
I mean...the Egyptians definitely did use slave labor though. Maybe not on the pyramids during that period, and maybe not within their own people, but they absolutely did have various classes of slaves or indentures. A couple Egyptologists like to deny it, but they're definitely not in the the majority.
Source?
@@ANTSEMUT1 Begin here, my friend. Sources on the bottom. It's not a completely scholarly source, but it's a great place to start.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt#:~:text=There%20were%20three%20types%20of,based%20on%20evidence%20and%20research.
@@EggShen905 thanks.
@@ANTSEMUT1 wikipedia isn't a source, you can't even use that in some high school research papers, let alone real academia
@@sedwillful the sources wiki provide in the article are.
Nice sources. Completely disagee
We can't even agree on what's gone on the last 2 years, and yet people claim to know the truth about Ancient Egypt. BS.
My dudes, you have to start compressing and normalizing your audio.
@1:32 "Or as I like to call him : History Daddy"
Me: well hello fellow history-geek-gay-guy
How does his statement indicate any of what you said?
@@spiralnapkin Come back again when you understand any of the LGBTQA+ lingo.
Can I call you 'Karen" in the mean time?
I love that wallpaper 🦖🦕 🛻 🦈
The biggest misconception about ancient Egypt is that they were white Europeans.
I remember being told in school that they liquified the brain and drained it out of the nose because they thought it was just "head filler" instead of an important organ
To be fair, this theory has yet to be disproven and is fact appearing to very likely be true.
ankh - uh -suh NA mun, not 'anka cinnamoon'.
I see Zaddy, I click
Hïštørÿ Dåddÿ
I think I found my husband
"TIME PERIOD" ... UGH
Misconception, inbreeding was much less popular then its presented here.. one can check the latest lines of rulers trough dynasties 👍
There is something not right by saying "History Daddy". Just sayin.
funny. just saw another misconception videos where you clearly pointed out the diffrence between an hypothes and a theory. and now you, yourself use the word theory for example "the ramp rope-and-pulley system". thats clearly only an hypothes. else i would love too see some more regarding this bullshit technic ^^
Among many errors, when this guy said “hollowed ground” instead of “hallowed ground”...it was enough for me to lose credibility for the video and the writers.
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Your puns landed hard.
The biggest misconception is the legend of Isrealites being enslaved in Egypt and then being led by Moses. Even if you take the most secular view and remove all the supernatural things, there simply isn't enough evidence for this (except Exodus, which is the claim, not evidence). I wish all the Yahweh worshipping religions would crumble, as they should
While you are right that there is no evidence of the Israelites Slaves leaving Egypt. But that doesn’t mean the story has no no symbolic or allegorical value.
Also, and most importantly, just because you are not religious or ascribed to one of the abrahamic religions does not mean those religions should not exist.
@@andrewbedwell8186 I agree, if every religious person thought about their faith's stories as symbolic, the world would be a better place, imagine if NOT ONE person literally believed in holy land, the amount of wars that would stop...
All religions are toxic to some extent. The religions "of the book" are just the worst of the lot. No one fears the Jains.
@@PilsnerGrip I’m pretty sure people would find some other excuse to fight wars over. The Holly Land concept is an excuse and (at least as far as I am aware in the Christian Bible) is never mentioned in the either testament. The concept of the Holy Land (at least in terms of the crusades which I believe was where the term came from) was primarily used as an excuse by a bunch of medieval monarchs who wanted a reason to attack and raid the Middle East. You seam to be under this mistaken belief that religions are the problem and not the people who use them as an excuse.
As I recall reading or was it a documentary the ancient Egyptians never had a problem with foreigners or immigrants within their borders practising their faiths as long as it was done in private and you didnt push your beliefs onto local Egyptians.
Tut had a lot physical problems...because he was inbred, he suffered many maladies...Tut had a cleft palate and a curved spine, and was probably weakened by inflammation and problems with his immune system...he was unhealthy throughout his life...
Cattle bones means not forced labour? Beleive what you like I guess.
I call Justin my Knowledge Bro 😏
Would you call hieroglyphs something closer to a meme? Lots of information in a small picture?
nothing new under heaven.
The murder story might have been a little more flattering 😂😂
Yeah, but that "murder mystery" could well have been started by a priesthood very unhappy with Akenaten- meaning, literally "child or son of the god Aten"- that appears to have been a faction within the Egyptian Hierarchy wanting to "dispense" with the role and strangle hold the priesthood and their literacy gave them over much of society. And it would suit a manipulative priesthood to take credit for a "murder" to "inform" any later wannabe miscreants about "what could happen to them". FR
I's is hard for me to deal with Mental Floss. These kids do a halfway job at research and are often just wrong. I would say that about 10% of MF content is questionable at best.
So your story is these cats straight out of the stone age, shit out the technology to build the most complicated structure ever then forgot how. Meanwhile ever other part of society advanced. Who's going to fix your misconceptions
I have a PhD in history. This is incredible, simple minded nonsense. The worst was the bizarre redefinition of slavery
yawn
I claim to have a PhD someone said on the internet.
Justin you are cute
Cleopatra was W H I T E
She wasn't exactly. She was an Egyptian of Greek descent. Fun fact, she was the only Ptolemaic pharaoh to speak Egyptian. There were Egyptians in her lineage and was described as having darker skin than your average Greek. Mediterranean people generally have olive skin (brown, not green!). So whereas she wasn't a pure Egyptian (Arabic in today's terms), she was darker than your average Greek noblewomen. There are records of this, btw. Don't ask me to remember which ones - it's been a long time since university and it's gone midnight.
@@y_fam_goeglyd Scholars generally identify Cleopatra as essentially of Greek ancestry with some Persian ancestry. This is based on the fact that her Macedonian Greek family - the Ptolemaic dynasty - had intermarried with the Seleucid dynasty that ruled over much of West Asia. This notably included the first Cleopatra, Queen Cleopatra I Syra, wife of Ptolemy V Epiphanes. Cleopatra I of Syria was a descendant of the Seleucid Queen Apama, the Sogdian Iranian wife of Seleucus I Nicator, a Macedonian Greek companion of Alexander the Great.
"And that fancy bell that MEANS SUBSCRIBED"????! That's not the subscription button. Don't lie to get more people set up for notifications.
EDIT: Speaking of people being subscribed, you guys lost another one.
The Bell appears only when you ARE subscribed. Clicking ON that bell activates Notifications. I see your point and I agree it's bad to bait clicks in any way. But: Technically, HE's right! YOU'RE wrong
The Bell means you are subscribed
That's a true statement
What are you, 12?
lies
You share a couple of the same talking-manurisms as Donald Trump. It's funny to watch 😅
Guess work
Second
Please stop saying "enslaved person." Moronic.
The word "slave" works just fine.
they weren't black
So why do all Egyptians depictions within the Egyptian dynasties portray them as such? Most importantly why do greeks and Roman's only claim them to be such?
something not quite right with your eyes, not enough life in the eyebrows...guessing reading a script
And I suppose you could memorize this entire script, with correct pronunciations and do the whole thing in one take.
just cuz you give your slaves beer doesn't mean they aren't slaves