Feeding King Tut 

I know it was a joke but it seemed like as good an opportunity as any to mention that going by what I know of ancient Egyptian beliefs about the afterlife (which is probably less than perfect) they'd probably have mixed feelings about archaeologists. On one hand they're digging them up and making off with their stuff. On the other however the Egyptians apparently believed that being remembered by the living was vitally important for their continued existence in the afterlife and an awful lot of them, including King Tut, were long forgotten before someone dug them up, so the archaeologists are kinda doing them a favour on that front. I like to think that Egyptians have been popping back into existence in the afterlife for the last hundred and something years.

Every now and then, someone should place a bucket of KFC next to King Tut's mummy. He'll never go hungry again.

No underwear, and with all that sand blowing around...

That's what sucks about eternal afterlife.

@@hueandcrylancer They have a saying, that archeologists often came running with a pickaxe in one hand and a Bible in another. It's not really about research, but more about what goodies you can find to take home with you. That said, it did help grant people a chance to understand how Egyptian burial processes work and why they were (obviously) a target for grave robberies.

i was thinking that myself! a fitting meal for his memory!

Maybe he loved ducks because they waddle when they walk like he must have

@@melissabarrett9750 The ugly duckling. Lol

@@melissabarrett9750 That thought is both endearing, and a little sad.

Oh my god, I'm going to cry. Humans have really always been humans, and King Tut had a toy duck.

That's one way to look at this. But some historians think it might have been the other way around. Tut ended his father's shenanigans and returned traditional priests to they former glory and power. Therfore when he died they all pitch in with extraordinarly rich funeral gifts as a thank you.

Tut was extremely important, his father tried to change the entire Egyptian leadership and society which was "fixed" by Tut in his relatively short reign.

@@krzysztofkolodziejczyk4335 I support the theory that as he died young his tomb was rushed and not nearly as opulent as others. While he might have been liked by the priest class, their power was greatly reduced by his father. It would have been unlikely that the priests would have had any power to significantly add to the tomb.

@@amarketing8749 Yeah, and most importantly he died young and unexepected. The two thousand items found and the digging of a tomb in rock is not something you improvise, as you have only 70 days between Pharaoh's death and his burial. So he got Ay's tomb (the man was old, he had already prepared his tomb, although it was a Vizier's tomb not a king's one ^^'), and probably stole the treasure of his predecessor, one egyptologist think that 80% of the treasure were meant for a queen, probably Ankh-Kheperure, who was a queen-pharaoh who reigned two or three years before Tutankhamun's reign.

@@johannesmattsson9900 Not at all. Tutankhamun got to the throne when he was very young (roughly 8 years old) which makes it more likely that he was manipulated by others (presumably those who took over after him like Ai or Horemheb). We also know from the studies done on his pathology that he was very sickly. Apart from the genetic disease that he had, he had been through very severe forms of malaria many times in his life, so it seems highly unlikely that he played magnificent role throughout most of his reign. I suspect people like his priests or consultants or even his wife Ankhsenamun played much greater role than the poor child. His tomb was also carelessly made, objects were hastily brought in and various of the objects found in his tomb have been suggested that they were quickly modified from other people's burials to fit the young king (though this of course needs plenty of study). His mummification was not exactly perfect either for his body did decay a bit compared to other burials like queen Tiye for example. Many of his bones broke post mortem too. Tutankhamun reigned during a crucial time that's for sure but it seems more likely that he was a pawn king at least for his youth than a strong ruler that played important parts personally. Maybe later on to the years before his death like when he was around 16-18 when he died, he would be more active but I somehow doubt it because of his genetic conditions only worsened with years so by the time of his death he could have been frailer of health than before.

You're riding your war chariot and suddenly the wheels pop off one by one and you eat dirt, crushing your beloved chariot to bits Back in the material world the archaeologists are sadly remarking that the main body of the chariot disintegrated from age when they tried to move it

😂😂😂

@@bluegum6438 This would make for a rather entertaining comedy movie to be fair.

Twins?

@FlyingMonkies325 they would have just moved their bodies and put them in his tomb if they where already dead.

This is because of gross incest in pharaohnic marriages. Sibling marriage can’t survive enough generations to be a viable cultural trait.

@FlyingMonkies325 the cracked skull is only a misinterpretation of an old x-ray. And the babies were likely mummified and buried somewhere and later reburied, this was common practice. for the Egyptians dead people were much more 'alive' than they are for us, so having them buried somewhere else (like with a relative who was already dead) to be looked after until their parents died was perfectly normal. But yes, his tomb was probably put together in a hurry, he did die very young after all. but it is also assembled with a lot of care, many of the objects are things he would have used in his life and others were made with him specifically in mind (like a lot of walking sticks to help with his limb).

Ancient Egyptians loved their children so much!

Seriously. I’d love that cow sofa.

Seriously. I’d love that cow sofa.

Agreed. They got nothing on the Egyptians 😂

Tutenkhamuns and Heteperes' (a queen from the old Kingdom pyramid age whose tomb is the second most undisturbed) tomb furniture were a great inspiration to Art Deco design in the 20s and 30s

@@TastingHistory Seriously. I’d love that cow sofa.

@ngwillard r/Woosh

Stop lying are you African? Cause if you're not you not a real Egyptian

Real Egyptian or invaders ?

​@@kf9926Good question LOL!!

@@Kimmy_95 what’s funny

A LOT more history than THAT was made up purely for public relations and propaganda purposes. Seriously!

Now that's an episode idea!

Indiana Miller!

😂 don’t mind me. Just picking up a few things for dinner.

@@TastingHistory Only the freshest 3000 year old ingredients for you!

as far as i remember, some of the honey conserved in the graves still was edible, or well, not dangerous to eat, 3000 years later.

That killed me lmao.

That was amazing, together with the dry duck joke. 😄

Visit british history museums, you'll see many familiar things

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I found it very clever too 😂 ❤

I don't know about the Egyptian beliefs. But I do know that Chinese people burn goods for their loved ones' stay in the first phase of the afterlife. Once you're done with phase one, you get judged and you usually reincarnate.

How it works is this: when the body dies it separates into the body, the Ka, and the Ba. The Ka (aka the Soul) only needs to absorb the food, thus explaining why when a tomb is opened the food still appears untouched

Maybe just having one duck is like an infinite food glitch.

@@Genevieve1023 there were funerary temples used by the Pharaonic religion, and we have depictions of sons and daughters giving offerings to their dead parents. So it's possible there was something of thar belief; additionally we have stories of ghosts coming to haunt the living because their tombs were disturbed or destroyed from contemporary records in an attempt to get others to fix the matter. So I think the tomb goods were meant to be indefinite, and the temple offerings might have been a supplement. All this being said I'm not an academic, and I focus more on other periods of Egyptian history.

I imagine they had a similar common sense as we did. They prbly knew very well what that tomb would look like Millennia later with all the food just being inedible. But it's a huge sign of prestige and it's a long going tradition that Pharaohs just held up for ages. Maybe it was more to force the lower class to give their respects. Building the Ancient Egyptian monuments is a really bizarre way to worship god if you compare it to medieval Europe. In Europe they sometimes spent centuries to build huge churches, cathedrals which at the end of the day could be used by the everyman to pray. So you can argue that building the cathedrals was not only a form of prestige but also a public service and a way for people to work their penance. But what was the everyman in Ancient Egypt allowed to do around the tombs, pyramids and the like? Those were off limits to the living. Every last slave working on them prbly hated their regime. I don't think many people really believed the Pharaohs would need any of these riches and foods in their tomb for the after life. They were just forced to comply with a cruel system.

Hear, hear!

When I was 9, I saw "The Ten Commandments" in the West End theater in Long Beach, NY. . As I got older, I realized how many blatant mistakes the movie had, especially during the tenth plague as well as other such during the movie.

Tut wasn't even the peak of Egyptian history! Africa is an incredibly interesting continent to study, so many variations of class and wealth over the thousands of years of record and archeology we have. I wish it was given more thought in western history books + classes beyond a thin band of Egyptian history and a nod to the triangle trade. I wanna learn more about interior Africa personally, my western learning suuuuper restricted me to north Africa/Mediterranean Africa. (this is no value judgement on you, original commenter, I'm just expressing awe at history for myself!)

There's a good chance that all of the gold in Tutankhamun's tomb is something of an anomaly. In 1881, several pharaonic mummies were recovered from a secret cache at Deir el-Bahri where they had been reburied to protect them from tomb robbers. Along with the mummies, there were several original inner coffins, all of which were made of wood that had originally been overlain with gold leaf. Tutankhamun's solid gold inner coffin is like nothing else ever found, and there have been some suggestions that his entire burial was a way of getting rid of a large amount of spiritually and politically suspect treasure associated with the heretical Aten religion of his father. This is supported by the large numbers of items in his tomb made for other members of the royal family - possibly including his father, and his brother(?) Smenkhare - particularly the second coffin which is clearly not modelled on the same person as the other two. That gold coffin was also probably a disaster for Tutankhamun. Unlike the permeable wooden coffins, it did not allow the moisture in the various oils and perfumes used to anoint the mummy to evaporate. Instead, they gradually reacted with the body tissues to produce a thick black tarry substance that destroyed most of his body apart from the skeleton. Which is why Tutankhamun's mummy, despite never been attacked by tomb robbers, is in a very much worse state than those bodies found at Deir El-Bahri. I guess we'll never know for sure unless another intact pharaonic burial is uncovered; but there aren't that many to account for. Perhaps the only one in the Valley of the Kings would be Ramesses VIII whose tomb has never been positively identified. But he only ruled for 2 years at most and even then during a period of general decline. Further afield, a good number of the Old Kingdom pharaohs have still not got definite burials, s o keep your fingers crossed.

Ridiculous. There was one monarch in the entire empire. Today, any billionaire can afford to bury themselves with more treasures than Tutankhamun if they were stupid enough and there's 1000s of them.

@@CCoburn3 It's very hard to pin the slow collapse of Egypt on any one factor. There was a huge dislocation of society right around the Eastern Mediterranean from about 1200BCE during the reign of Ramesses III who spent much of his life fighting off a series of invasions by so-called 'Sea Peoples'. His reign appears to have been followed by a series of prolonged failures of the Nile flood as well as various epidemics that hollowed out the Egyptian economy. There also appears to have been a slow withdrawal from Egypt's empire in the Middle East and Sinai as new powers like the Persians began to rise. This meant that Egypt lost access to many raw materials including iron, copper and good quality timber. A lot of the gold in the royal tombs was recycled into the economy quite quickly after it was buried. Mud seals uncovered by Howard Carter show that Tutankhamun's tomb was broken into at least twice within a few years of his death - and we even know the name, Maya, of the man who sealed the tomb again. There are good records showing periods of high inflation, unemployment and the failures of the state to provide basic supplies which line up with bursts of tomb robbing. Whilst the early tombs in the Valley were hidden, the later tombs had huge entrances with wooden doors that were only protected by guards. And they weren't always reliable. The Amherst Payrus from the time of Ramesses IX records court trials (and gruesome torture) of tomb robbers who were systematically looting the Valley of the Kings. Things got so bad, that the priesthood opened all the known tombs and removed the royal mummies, stripped them of any valuables, rewrapped them and placed them in a number of caches around the Valley of the Kings where they remained until the end of the 19th Century. It's also worth mentioning that the much older pyramids were actually good for the economy and the Egyptian state. They used labour that would have otherwise been unemployed during the three months of the year when agricultural land was under water in the annual flood. The state provided food in exchange for work and made sure there wasn't civil unrest. The pharaoh got a nice new burial place - or in at least one case, three of them.

@@ronmka8931 True and there is a big difference between what is available in the cities and to the wealthy and what the average city dweller or farmer might have had access to or afforded. Most people do not understand that before the 1700s about 80-90% of the population were farmers and this slowly improved from the 1700s to about 2000. It was improving something like .3% a year until in hit 2% until 2000. It is right now about 1.5%. The focus now is reducing chemicals and making it more and more sustainable. But the main this is that if a city back then had a population of 200,000 it needed between 1,000,000 farmers in the surrounding area. And with the lower population density of the country this makes the cities look like a tiny dot in the middle of farms. This was one reason the Egyptians fared so well. The soil was so rich because of the annual flooding that they likely only needed closer to 60-70% of the population for farming. This generates more wealth and lets a higher percentage of the population be craftsmen and artists.

​@@ronmka8931 You're just uneducated. That short list of produce that you consider long is actually factual and recorded in history. Dates, almonds, sesame, hops, chickpeas, pigeons, quail, pears, veal, oxen, eggs, fish, shellfish, figs, 😂

Why don't you write a book.

@@dos3622 I have. I type very fast. I was writing 10 pages an hour every night while working full time and raising 3 kids as a single dad. I am basically retired too so I now have time to burn... :P

how did I just realize this 😭

Same 😭

well garlic is from china and japan , I don't think the Egyptians had access to it , carrots are from Iran and eggplants and mangos are from India and potato's and squash are from Mexico and Cuba , So I don't think they had access to garlic , maybe they had access to dates and figs but the only thing they used was probably salt , salt water and oil and some herbs , it would be hard to tell unless there is a recipe book found

@@sinabagherisarvestani8924 Egyptians had access to garlic because it doesn't have a single origin. One proposed location, based on tests, is the Near East. Egyptians used garlic so we can infer it originated close to Egypt.

Twins?

@@queerdor they’re most likely from separate pregnancies

@@queerdor they were very premature. 1 at 5 months, the other 6 months

I knew about them in like 1969.

@@paddyodriscoll8648 i mean, i never said they were and unknown thing, just that they’re kind of obscure

Is this dish still popular or prevalent in Egypt? Do people still make it?

​@@genautelevishn5999yes modern Egyptians are mostly Arab/Semitic. While ancient Egypt was most likely Phoenician descendant

@@genautelevishn5999Yes they are, 77% same genetics on average in fact. Stay in denial though and cry about it. You can’t take our heritage away from us in the name of your conspiracy theories.

No they are fully Egyptians

​@@STSGuitar16نعم البط من الاطعمه المفضله للمصريين من كل الطبقات ويوجد بكثره في الريف المصري وهو أغلى ثمنا من الدواجن والاسماك

I guess the fruitcake they found inside the abomination boy kings tomb was still considered fresh

And Tut has been paying $50 a month for it for the past 3000 years!

@@TastingHistory that's funny as hell.

@@TastingHistory Of course! What else did you think all the gold was for?

@@TastingHistory - That’s quite the rental contract! 😂 Brings on a whole new meaning to terms like ‘long-term business relationship’ and ‘return on investment’!

I wish I’d seen it. My mom still tells me about seeing it when it was in LA in the 70s.

I desperately wanted to see that King Tut exhibit! My now ex husband talked me out of it at the time, promising that we would eventually see it in Egypt...which obviously never happened.

@@TastingHistory Yeah I recall that. We had a school field trip for that to the LA Museum in La Brea.

I'm oldish so I remember hearing about that. I was so mad I couldn't go.

Oh my. I saw it at the museum of natural history in Chicago... fantastic.... could not believe how brand new most things looked, especially a carved wood chair

Same! Very interesting!

Now you can make it at home! If you can get a duck 🦆

Duck features in Chinese cuisine, so a Chinese supplier would be worth trying, if there's one in your area.

@@oaktreeman4369 Or just buy it at the supermarket.

@@telebubba5527 We're at the time of year now when ducks and geese start appearing in the supermarket, instead of just chicken all the time. And turkey, of course.

Check the freezer section of your supermarket. Not uncommon all year round out here. It is expensive though, and goose even more so.

"Tah-wa-at-ana-khh-ah-mayn"?

Please provide a more simple explanation lol

Wow!

I read that first part as "Twat" instead of "Tawāt" 😂

@@K-a-n-d-i-s I don't think there is a simpler explanation. This made it clear, but yes it involves understanding Arabic, which makes sense given Egypt nowadays. Just imagine how Arabs say their a's starting at the back of their throat and it'll help.

Butt is appreciated around the globe. But I can understand if you a special appreciation for Egyptian Butt.

Hey, thanks for the pronunciations! In the U.S. it's so common to hear them pronounced like Max says them, and we're often taught things wrong in school - almost everything I learned about Tut was wrong! Knowing these little things and being able to better respect another culture's history is pretty awesome, in my opinion.

@@christabelle__ it’s not that you were taught wrong it’s only that some sounds in ancient Egyptian names are easier to pronounce if your native language is Arabic or i will even guess Hebrew and Amharic. USA is a highly educated populace. Fuck the stereotype.

Tut and toot

Butt is Arabic lol not Egyptian. Real Egyptian is Coptic.

I've had that Tumblr post in the back of my mind ever since I first saw it.

That same Tumblr user recently posted a few facts debunking a lot of the misinfo in this very video. @ rudjedet

well garlic is from china and japan , I don't think the Egyptians had access to it , carrots are from Iran and eggplants and mangos are from India and potato's and squash are from Mexico and Cuba , So I don't think they had access to garlic , maybe they had access to dates and figs but the only thing they used was probably salt , salt water and oil and some herbs , it would be hard to tell unless there is a recipe book found

Lies again? Best Kindergarten Teacher

@@sinabagherisarvestani8924 didnt the countries trade spices and foods

Well garlic is from China and Japan , I don't think the Egyptians had access to it , carrots are from Iran and eggplants and mangos are from India and potato's and squash are from Mexico and Cuba , So I don't think they had access to garlic , maybe they had access to dates and figs but the only thing they used was probably salt , salt water and oil and some herbs , it would be hard to tell unless there is a recipe book found

@@sinabagherisarvestani8924 the garlic we know actually originated in Central Asia and Iran, and there is plenty of archeological evidence showing that the ancient Egyptians used garlic for culinary and medicinal purposes; this is not to mention local relatives of onion and garlic that grew within Egypt's realm of influence. China is currently the world's largest producer of garlic, which is perhaps why you got confused.

@@danzafrir2900 lol ya maybe

Woah, over 1.5 million subscribers in 2 years. Thanks for pointing it out. that's amazing work

@@sinabagherisarvestani8924 You also realize that things like trade existed, yes? And traders/merchants traveled all over the world? Especially through the middle east?

I feel like it was pretty popular in the 50s-80s to have salad bowls in the shape of lettuces and other things. It’s a shame it’s not so popular now!

true! there’s also actually banana-shaped containers for banana…containment…purposes…? for when you want a banana on the go?

@@obscure_munnerz6917 that's to make sure it can't escape

The banana holders are awesome! Really helps with getting a healthy snack to work or wherever without it getting bruised all to heck.

@@Fitzroyfallz I have a fish shaped seafood salad tray, very pretty indeed

😂😂😂

I'm pretty sure I heard somewhere that Charles II of Spain had to be fed liquid food because his teeth didn't meet to chew.

I ugly laughed at this and then realized I’m really just an 11-year-old trapped in the body of a 32-year-old. 😂

Me too! Not a beginner dish but awesome nonetheless. A kind of MAGICAL MAZE to MAJESTIC MEAL making!

It's great for small abrasions on the skin! Or, if your lips are very dry - when my lips crack in the winter, I smear a thin layer of (it cannot be pasteurized!!) raw honey over my lips before bed, since it is a humectant, and will actually attract moisture instead of letting it escape. Honey is so *neat*!

That somebody would in fact be Imhotep, the ancient Egyptian god of Architects and Physicians, and the architect of Djoser, who was deified after his death. Had we known about him before Hippocrates, doctors today would be taking an Imhotepic Oath.

Someone did a taste test on the Internet a long time ago, said it tasted just like normal raw honey and that it was great.

​@@reisshephow ... did they get access to that honey ?

Indeed, nurses who go to see patients swear by Manuka honey. My mother had bed sores down to her bone--but the Manuka (medical-grade) honey was able to nealy cure it.

Actually, since Tut was only eight years old at his accession to the throne, It may not have been as much pressure as suggestion. Aye may simply have taken his father's place in Tut's mind and assumed complete control over his education. Tut might have willingly concurred with all of Aye's decisions.

Hatshepsut was amazing

That's not what they did. Their intention was not to change the past, but to protect the future, from their point of view. For them, names had a very strong magical power when combined with jeroglyphs.

"Suing". Have you never see anything about any aristocrat or nibble ever? People write to make themselves look good the world over.

Erasing King Tuts name from the record of Pharaohs is probably what saved his tomb. The tomb robbers can't rob a tomb if they don't the pharaoh ever existed. They wouldn't have gone looking for it.

I agree totally. Hatshepsut was one of my favourite pharaohs. She was amazing.

vivon

Yes, and be sure to skim and save the fat for cooking other things - it's ideal for pommes de terre sarladaises, or potatoes sautéed with garlic in duck fat. (There are lots of recipes on line, from savory dishes to pastries, wherever you'd use butter. Just pour it off before you baste with the sauce, and strain it to keep the flavor neutral.)

He's got a condo made of stone-a, Funky Tut!

😂 that’s going to be stuck in my head all day, which is cool, because it’s still funny after all these years!

@@lesterstone8595 "He gave his life... for tourism!"

Any thoughts on "Business Secrets of the Pharaohs"?

Ooh how'd it go?

Thank you! I need to do more.

@@TastingHistory YES PLEASE!

I agree! I recently showed my mom the Egyptian episode where he makes the tiger nut cakes since she's a huge fan of Egyptian history!

One of these days, Max should make Ancient Egyptian cat food.

Yes I have visited Highclere too, some years ago. In the basement is a replica of Tut's tomb. I nearly fainted though due to the lack of oxygen! Same in the upstairs rooms! This has been a problem before in old castles. Why does no one ever open a window in these old places?

Lord Carnovan took some of Tuts antiquities back with him to Highclere where they still remain despite Egypt asking for their return. Ironically on his last visit to Egypt, he was bitten by a mosquito while sailing on the river and developed a sickness which killed him. They claim it was the mummy's curse that punished him for taking the items from the tomb.

​@maydaygarden there's a british comedian who does a funny bit about the British museum hanging out to antiquities of Egypt and other countries. It's a 'laugh to keep from crying' bit because it really isn't cool that this is still a thing...

​@@maydaygardenru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-x73PkUvArJY.htmlfeature=shared

The respect I need

Thank you, Roy! Nothing wrong with lurking, but I'm glad to have you stay : )

I recently did the same thing

Thank you so much!

Same reason I'm still here!

I love History!

*Devil fooled them.*

Additionally, there's been some strong suspicions raised recently that they took a few choice pieces from the tomb to sell prior to the "opening" of the tomb.

They discovered the tomb in 1913! They spent nine years taking everything they wanted for themselves out of the tomb before making the official "discovery" in 1922.

Am I wrong? 😂

@@TastingHistory You’re having a Nicki Minaj moment: “Did I lie?”

All that royal in-breeding... So Southern. Applies equally in Australia's little southern island state of Tasmania

😂