As an Egyptian, I always try to educate myself on the vast and old history of my home country. The unique geographic location of egypt made it a hotspot for all kinds of cultures and religious beliefs. Thank you for this well researched and informative video, truely an outstanding work
I like the contrast between the stylized Egyptian iconography on the wrapping and the naturalistic Greek portrait over Herakleides’ face. There is no synthesis of the two artistic traditions here. They are strictly separated.
I think this is the second mummy I've seen on this channel, lol. I can't recall the first, but I was definitely surprised! I appreciated the brief historical breakdown at the beginning, because I do think of Pharaohs and am fuzzy on what took place after that. 😅 Herakleides was kinda cute, though! I'd want my likeness on my tomb too looking like that, lol.. 👀 Not so sure about the ibis coming with me, though. I love that he represents the swirl of that time. It reminds me of my dubious, intermingled sense of identity and how I look forward to passing on an even more complex one. I'm amazed there wasn't an explanation for the gold toes... This is the first I've heard of this practice and I'd love to know why! The icons have put me in a doodling mood, so I look forward to that soon. 🙃
TKU for this wonderful video. I do not recall seeing a moustache and beard quite like this in this context. Is this unusual and is that actual linen around the mummy?
0:24 Too funny 👂🏻👂🏻 0:35 1:15 1:30 Nope 1:38 OTT cross-hatch 2:07 Lustre ware mummy mask 🤨👀 3:14 to 3:23 'Romans mining silver in Spain (Rio Tinto)'--that's a hard nope 6:29 'Abdomen placement' for the mummified ibis--proportionally, look again: nope 6:47 Different position shown here--well above the fissure in the shroud 7:13 😶👎🏻 8:45 Compare 8:56 'Could really go for a hot drink right about now' 😂 9:46 Wonderfully engaging portrait; shame about the sub-standard shroud.
I am against the keeping of human remains by museums just for display. They could have made a copy of of the coffin without a corpse and put that on display. In the future people will be disgusted that the remains of humans are treated like a painting or sculpture just for display.
Well, I feel like this is the ultimate disrespect to this man, I mean - displaying him at a museum. His beliefs (whether we share them or not) should be respected. He was taken out of his tomb, robbed of his vauluable possessions and now his body became one of the exhibits! Vulnerable, dignity taken away. While his sarcophagus and body tell us many amazing things about his culture... does it gives us any rights to treat his body as yet another object and his religious views as not important? Are we to decide what matters? And why do we decide his religion and decisions are not significant? Do you believe that there is a limit of time after which we are allowed to deny an idivudual due dignity? I understand studying but... he should have been buried and left alone according to his wishes after scientific examination. It doesn't matter - 2 years or 2000 years ago! Herakleides revealed all of his secrets, let him enjoy eternity according to his ideas. Even though his sarcophagus and body helped us learn, we should respect his humanity. Showed at a museum, visitors paying a small amount of money can buy the opportunity to watch things he probably considered really intimate and made for him and his gods in the afterlife only! It is bad on so many levels.... There should be balance between science, knowlege on the one side and human life and personal beliefs on the other... It seems him being an exhibit is the ultimate humiliation...
