How Ancient Egyptians Sounded 

iirc, it is the oldest name in history for a "commoner," someone not a king or pharoah

@@ObjectorSnark and he went on to be deified by later dynasties.

@@nicholassingleton6488 dude invented "the pyramid"...that's god-tier architecture

​@@ObjectorSnark my 4yo granddaughter builds pyramids of blocks. Mound building is the first structures the human mind can construct. There are mounds everywhere, even in stone age cultures. Now the actual pyramids are complex inside, but the first pyramids were just piling stones and learning as they went. Giza was many many centuries into stone mound building, and built after they had learned wall, lentel and roof construction.

Some say he was yosef , Joseph, son of Jacob .

I'll never forget when the mummy screams in his face the first time😂

Hey Benny, it looks to me like you're on the wrong side of the river!!!

I showed it to my teen last year and he watched back-to-back until The Mummy 3. LOL

Gotta say, Rachael Weisz looks like that to this day, breathtakingly beautiful woman

​@@tracys169Nicee, it's a classic!

This is so great, whoever originated that is a genius 😆

Because I'm fun at parties; Anubis would be better. Sorry

​@@SkagulTVoh right because he was the deity that escorted the dead to the afterlife?

Brilliant

​@@SkagulTVthe world is a better place because of your fact checking 👏

Cleopatra died in 30 BC. The Pyramids were completed before 2600 BC. We are closer in date to the Roman Republic's wars with Carthage (the Punic Wars) starting in 264 BC. The beginnings of Ancient Sparta of around 650 BC is finally getting closer to Egypt.

Ancient Egypt lasted so long that "ancient Egypt historian" was a career in ancient Egypt.

Thanks for putting it in perspective to me. I like that 😊

Westerners call it Ancient Egypt when my ancient ancestors called it Kemet.

@@ebonytv3414Egyptians weren’t black

Fr didn't expect it to be historical accurate too

I saw it yesterday and it was so corny. Perhaps it's a nostalgia thing

@@aynain1810 it is kinda corny yes but that's what I like about it tbh 😂

​@@asadmalik2464there is a well known review of the movie that goes like, there's hardly anything I can say in its favor, except I enjoyed almost every minute of it. Lol

​@aynain1810 the 50s mummy movie is pretty corny too, doesn't make either less of a classic :)

The trick is the vowels

And then Stargate: SG1 got tired of making up languages for only Daniel to understand, so they made aliens speak English. But they’re self-aware enough to make fun of themselves for it, so we forgive them.

@@StrawberryAquaas someone who’s been bingeing Stargate Atlantis (again) over the past few days, the fact that everyone speaks English no problem without even the excuse like in Star Trek over having a universal translator, is hilarious to me.

@@StrawberryAqua If you read the novelizations, they added that some aspect of the stargate often acted as a universal translator of sorts by affecting people who used it brains. Retconed some of the first season but made more sense than everyone suddenly spewing English. Wish it had been addressed in the show itself, though.

This thread gives me life.😭

She's an Egyptologist XD

You seriously don’t recognize her? It’s Drew Barrymore!😂

@@4thegloryofthelordgoodbye 😂

@@4thegloryofthelord Bye-bye..

Except Coptic is not ancient Egyptian. And they’re not the same ppl as the ancient Egyptians.

aka one regular long form video? lmao

Click on the title in this short, and it takes you to the full/long video!

Tiktokification of our consciousness

I’d like to hear many sentences of it

Dope name!!

As close as possible

It's close in the sense that we know the consonants(E.g imhotep is written mhtp), however we can't exactly know which vowels were between the consonants for every word, but Coptic does give some indication(but it's still so long ago Ancient/Middle Egyptian was spoken that the language has changed alot).

Yes, exactly this. She is talking about what Egyptians sounded like ~600BCE, up through ~100CE. Couple thousand years after the Pyramids were constructed.

Yeah and an added issue is that hieroglyphic script doesn't have vowels (like Hebrew). So for the early history of Egypt we can only guess

Um. Ok. Anyway like she explained: we know what the last stage sounded like. Just like I can currently speak modern English. When I'm back in 500 years it'll sound different. Doesn't make today's current sound WRONG. Dont pretend that because time exists there is no answer to any question.

@@Loralanthalas It wasnt a statement that she was wrong, it was an expansion of her answer. I guess it sounds like that to someone with an incredibly combative mind though. Calm down.

I think that's what she meant when she was talking about Coptic since she said it was one of the last stages of the Ancient Egyptian language

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It's still a brilliant film even today. (lets forget about the Scorpion king...)

Me too. Contagious

We have been lied to, Gobekli tepee and other older ancient ruins date back further than the pyramids, do your research

Europeans think anyone but themselves are incapable of thinking.

I could confidently walk out of the restroom with my pants still at my ankles but it doesn't mean I should have done it

Dr. Laurel Bestock (it's in the description)

Jurassic Park could never

​@@kumottakun6089 😂😂😂

I always saw the movie as goofy yet adventurous, so to see there is some historical accuracy is really nice too 😅

Same.. so much this

If you're interested in that, Rachel Maksy made a video about The Mummy with an egyptologist, I really recommend it!

poor Amenhotep III

@@dynamitedingo8183I wonder what the people who worked for him would think of that. 🤔

Kinda cool :)

Pretty metal if you ask me

because every mummy movie needs a famous brown guy for the white hero to kill.

there's a 20 min video attached to this short in which she answers other questions on ancient egypt if that's any good?

@@projectjupiter5523that wouldn’t cut it buddy

I was thinking the same exact thing! Forget mummies, I want this mommy 😍 lmao

​@@christianmiller710mommy 😭😭😭😭😭

I could barely take one minute of her, even though the topic is very interesting to me.

I loved Indiana jones! Named my dog Indiana Bones 😂

Big bet you were in Egypt in a past life. 😅

So, if your user name is any indication, you are an archaeologist now?

Explains your profile picture 😉

I almost become an egyptologist thanks to the Mummy 😭

Filmmakers have priorities. What importance to the narrative would showing the protagonist reloading a gun have? Movies aren’t meant to be accurate to real life, they’re meant to be entertaining

It's not accurate, it's a gibberish that incorporates arabic and hebrew words, don't believe everything you hear or read on the internet.

@@justinb864🤣🤣🤣🤣 bs

@@DGone1 the guy above you apparently doesn't know how to just laugh lol.

If i remember right, arent hieroglyphs phonetic sounds? so you put together symbols to make words, rather than like chinese where a character is a whole word?

​​@@fuzzblightyear145 Heiroglyphics were, yes. That's what she says in the video. Chinese characters aren't, you're correct, but they don't represent words so much as morphemes which are units of meanings. It would be more accurate to say a single character represents a word except that's an oversimplification because multiple characters each with their own individual (and often unrelated) meaning that mean something totally different when put together. Ex 轿车 means car 轿 Means palanquin 车 Means vehicle 公交车 means bus 公 Means male 交 Means friendship 车 Means vehicle

I think hieroglyphs were both. Rebus principle with the addition of determinatives which told you what kind of concept the sound related to, in order to avoid confusion.

@@AnarexicSumo Correcting your comment since you made some mistakes in the word definitions: "轿车" Doesn't mean "car", it means "Sedan" which is a specific type of car. The correct translation for car would be just "车" or "汽车" meaning "gas vehicle". "公" can mean male in some contexts, but in the word "公交车" it means "public" "交" means "to deliver" or "to reach". It only means "friendship" in certain contexts. So an actual translation of "公交" would be "Public Transport". Making "公交车" actually mean "Public Transport Vehicle".

And in some languages - like English! - we're NOTORIOUSLY inconsistent about what each letter is supposed to sound like.

It was around but in books

They were black so why are the actors white? Can't trust these "historians".

I used to draw Pyramids constantly. And we had a Word list of the week thing, I would always sneak in the word Ancient because it was my favorite word. :D

Yall covered ancient Egypt in elementary school? Were this college credited courses?

@@MayorGoldieWilson825 lol no! It was just like super brief lessons! I just remember it because it was when I first learned about them. I should have said middle school when we actually spent more time learning about them🤣

Even modern coptic is 40% greek

@CymruCelt01 40% of the Coptic language is purely Greek vocabulary that has no relation to ancient Egyptian, neither closely nor remotely.

Also, transliteration doesn't imply fidelity. You can transliterate Japanese or Chinese to Latin alphabet, but reading those won't be remotely close to the original (and vice versa, transliterating English to Japanese or Chinese). And that's not even going in the details of how languages evolve, and Greek letters today probably have different pronounciations as Greek letters back then. Heck, English sounded very different even 200 years ago, and we're talking of larger timescales.

I saw it at the cinema, it was one of the loudest movies ever heard, I left the theatre almost deaf😅

Beautiful story🙏💕

Hope u and ur family are well thanks for sharing this lil story 😭 it was rlly touching

My mom had a crush on that guy that helped them at the end benny was favorite character 😂😂😂😂😂

@@Cogiclove that movie. It’s a comfort movie. I can watch many times but I love Friday and Saturday night movies

Become Catholic. Outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation

@@CubeInspector I’m certain your heart is in the right place but you’re as misguided as Orthodox Christians who say that about Catholics. God bless you and keep you and may His face always shine upon you.

​@@CubeInspector 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@@CubeInspectorthe Orthodox Church is the true church. Papal supremacy is a heresy.

@@CubeInspector Another fairy tale.

We do because Heiroglyphics are purely phonetical. As pronunciations changed so too did the Heiroglyphics used to represent the words. That's literally how we know and can tell apart the 5 stages of Ancient Egyptian and we know there are 5 and we know that there are 5 because of major shifts in pronounciation. You have to remember, their language isn't ours and was not structured like ours.

Linguists have ways of tracing back phonology based on clues in modern dialects compared to written ancient forms. And we have a pretty good handle on the consonants at least, since hieroglyphs were deciphered in the 19th century. The trick is vocalization, since they didn't write down vowels.

@@the-chillian the sounds of older versions of the language could maybe be reproduced depending on how much of the sound of related languages for each time period are known (if there were shifts in pronunciation like there were in European languages, I mean)

The thing is, once a language stops being vernacular and its only use is liturgical, it stops changing, because of what a liturgy is- saying the same prayers every time. Same for Ge'ez in the Ethiopian Church. Whatever changes it went through while it was spoken by the wider population, once it became solely liturgical, it pretty much froze.

@zyaicob that's true, but Coptic has been a strictly liturgical language for only 2 or 300 years. Which is a long time, but not long at all over the history of the recorded Egyptian language.

Ptolmey V was not Christian. He was the central god of his own religion, Ptolmaic.

@@AnarexicSumowhat does that have to do with anything?

@@AnarexicSumowhat? lol

Lol the Coptic language would definitely have disappeared by now if it weren't for the Coptic Christians. Not that hard to wrap your head around that. No one else speaks the language.

Look at the comment below yours ​@@user-1836-jdk

YES you hit the nail on the head. Feels like a little bit of my brain got released reading this

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Omg I see it

This perfectly explains why I find her attractive. I was so confused, because I couldn't figure it out until I read this.

With acne

I was also stoked on the second one. A movie where the main couple DOESN'T have a silly breakup as an excuse to cause tension for the film is so refreshing, and it was still a fun romp similar to the first :) The first will always be in my top movies tho

2nd one

Youre an OG Egyptologist

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the problem with this, is as a Coptic Christian, spoken Coptic sounds more akin to misprounced current day Greek

Coptic is a Greek term referring to Egyptians not actual all ancient Egyptians at all

As a Copt thank you for that, not many westerns know about the Native Egyptians

I only just recently discovered that the original Catholic Church born almost immediately after the death of Jesus (Yeshua?) was Coptic. It makes me wonder what are the main differences of the Coptic Catholic vs the Roman Catholic styles of Christianity.

@@GeneralBulldog54 ...not gonna lie, I do not know what you are talking about... Coptics are Orthodoxe. They never believed that the Pope of Rome held any divine authority... I mean, there are some Coptic Catholics, but they mainly spawned after either the Roman Popes's mission in the 17th century or the british conquest, and that was in the 18th century (ik the british were protestestant, but hey, I guess protestantism was too different idk). The Coptic church (church of Alexandria) indeed appeared very soon after the death of Christ (Yeshua in hebrew, Esos in coptic and Yassoua amongst modern coptics), making them one of the 5 primary churches. But they never were Catholics.

@@GeneralBulldog54 for some reason, my first message was erased... so here I'm reposting it not gonna lie, I do not know what you are talking about... Coptics are Orthodoxe. They never believed that the Pope of Rome held any divine authority... I mean, there are some Coptic Catholics, but they mainly spawned after either the Roman Popes's mission in the 17th century or the british conquest, and that was in the 18th century. The Coptic church (church of Alexandria) indeed appeared very soon after the death of Christ (Yeshua in hebrew, Esos in coptic and Yassoua amongst modern coptics), making them one of the 5 primary churches. But they never were Catholics. That being said, orthodox and Catholics believe in the same scriptures and have fairly the same interpretation if we omit the papal part. Traditions are also a little different, and religious chorale are Middle Eastern. The liturgical language over there is the coptic language, not the latin language, and that's about it.

@@sickisick8103 Thanks for the clarification. I always thought the Coptics created the basis for the Catholic church. I never once considered it more along the lines of a pure Orthodox church.

​@@GeneralBulldog54This is interesting. My Coptic (now deceased) in-laws once told me that the Roman Catholic Church began first, the Coptic Church was second, and I think they said the Greek Orthodox Church was third. I don't know if they knew this aa fact, though. My Greek friend said the Coptic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church are very similar.

Nice.

London Accent tho.

Makes me wonder what ancient Egyptian slang might have sounded like ^^

Like Aragorn being more relaxed speaking Elvish than the Elves themselves. 😁

Your expectation is true. Their accents are extremely inaccurate.

​@@IkeFoxbrush arabs and Islam destroyed coptic language.

Mine too!! Agreed :):)

My archeology professor was the Egyptian language guy for the movie, and apparently he snuck some ancient Egyptian curse words in too

@@CSRgamer I love that haha

The Bible in Arabic sounds cringe asf Arabic is indeed the language of the greatest book the Quran

Not really I think it is okay but not that bad at all ​@@ThedeadaccountAL

@@ThedeadaccountAL bible is nonsense in any and every language

need me a doctor who took the imhotepian oath

💯 correct 👍 Raz C he was also the first polymath in recorded history.

I wouldn't call it dead, I don't even consider latin to be dead

still exist today in Coptic churches but usually only priest know how to speak it. But most Coptic churches just used Arabic for everyday rituals.

Haha, I instantly remembered this! 😂