Perfectly Recreating Egyptian Mummification... Just to Taste It 

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"I... What?"

On top of that, it shows up with all the spells… AND NO STORIES OF THIS CHICKEN’S LIFE. Everything else with that much effort put into its mummification came along with extensive description of who it is and why they’re important. This chicken just shows up with maximum protection and zero explanation.

@@tbestig4164 And since the chicken was dead before it was chosen to be mummified, it likely doesn't even know why it ended up in the Egyptian afterlife. It probably led a dreary life on a factory farm, then awakened at the first test as an Apex Chicken Pharaoh. Sounds like an isekai plot.

​@@tbestig4164 so basically. > Chicken shows up to the Egyptian afterlife > Armed to the beak with spells > Refuses to elaborate

Big bird

New pet

That's what crossed my mind!

There was a guy from 1990-s, so it is not as lonely.

Plus chances are some asshole in the 19th century ate you.

Not only that, there are definitely pharaohs and officials who went to the afterlife and then disappeared one day in a giant ball of fire. Because Victorians didn’t always use coal for trains (:

Most traditional medicine believed you are what you eat, so if you want to heal a human body, the best way to do it is to eat one.

​@@lolasdm6959 not "we" victorian europeans, they did worse so it's not unbelievable

@@G_zuz we as a species

​@@G_zuzPeople in Africa cut holes in the skulls of living people to release demonic spirits. I think we as a species believed weird shit to heal shit before modern medicine is accurate. Stop being so salty.

@@NotEmilio nah, we don't do that as a species. Victorians drank tea made of dead people's juice, eating mummies aren't far of

Make sure to leave a copy of this video somewhere too

longer than ancient egypt?

​@@anapple6912 it has been longer since egypt than when this new chicken mummy has been found. not that the new chicken mummy was around longer than ancient egypt.

Don’t forget the one dude who they mummified for that 1980’s experiment

​@@TheIbney00this guy who popped up would probably be a celebrity lol, telling everyone about how things changed so much since then.

Big bird

not just a chicken, a modern chicken. the birds they would have known 2-4000 years ago would have been radically different. smaller, more gristle less fat and muscle. this thing would look like some sort of super chicken. they would probably think it was incredibly important given it got full pharaonic mummification, like it was the pharaoh of all chickens.

@@amellishand then the emporium ate it

O noble chicken, may your journey to the afterlife and resurection be sucessful!

What if the chickens heart wiegths more than one of its feathers

​@@otoz-9775well... It's already seasoned so... Barbecue time

@@otoz-9775 ive never met a chicken that was capable of regret or remorse, so i think its got a good shot at making it past that test

@@otoz-9775 A chicken's heart is pretty small, honestly.

Kinda weird how this comment has 500+ likes but no sub-comments.

@@abyssstrider2547 because there’s nothing to add- they said it perfectly

@@witchy-wonderland1416 True.

Many years ago I watched a documentary on TV, where they mummified an actual person.

I mean as kids, we dreamt of doing some wacky things when we become scientist. If anything, they're just fulfilling their childhood dreams.

By that logic some steak RU-vidrs have eaten mummies.

@@eldritchcupcakes3195 you do need the spices for the flavor, but the process is practically identical to salted meat making they just made the big mistake of not using enough salt and not changing it in butcher shops they have a cooled room with a big vat with salt 80 kg or more, and you put all the pieces in and every day you move it around you can even use the same salt over and over again

​@eldritchcupcakes3195 Yeah by that logic I would have eaten mummies

We ARE writing a paper on it actually

@@thethoughtemporium awesome

@@thethoughtemporiumlovly, if theres anything this channel is good for, its the scientific papers that yall do as a product of the hyper fouces on the dumb ideas that so happen to basicly spearhead some REALLY lovly science so humanity can continue to be albe to understand shit better on the whole and maybe advance tech in the process.

​@@thethoughtemporium Oh, cool, I was just going to ask about documentation, as there are some parts that weren't in the video

See now this is the kind of nerd I am. I''m supposed to use anointing oil? Ok, which one? Ah, so it's the Hebrew holy anointing oil? What's that? Calamus is in dispute as a translation? One month of in depth research later... I'm making the most accurate dang oil I have the capacity to make!

Hoping little guy went to the field of reeds

@@diegoolivares1081Took a left turn at Albaquerque, wound up in the field of seeds

​@@RJiiFinEh, I'm sure that's just as nice for the lovely hen.

Thats what i was thinking lol. I had a realization at some point that this poor chicken might have had more care taken in its death than anyone gave it during life. Sad and also not sad because it really got the queen treatment in the end lol

Yeah considering the most notable acknowledgement for most chickens is whether or not one of them crossed a road, I'd say this chicken did pretty damned good for itself.

As a gen-Z(er?), I got halfway through this before feeling grateful that this high of quality video is free for me to watch on RU-vid. Definitely one of the most interesting and impressive I’ve seen in a while.

I can promise the younger generations are enjoying it

I'm a zoomer and not to get defensive, but I can't tell you the number of times I've thought "I can't believe I'm getting this for free!" when watching an amazing video like this. You'll also find similar comments all over RU-vid.

You know who's not appreciative of this quality content? RU-vid and those old git advertisers with their inferior taste to educational videos.

Was coming down here to say the same thing

it was not a person but machine, eg. ChatGPT!

​@@dm3onno

@@dm3oni doubt it

terrible example, ChatGPT can't even do that. @@dm3on

It needs a label of non-authenticity so that this doesn't happen, but it would be absolutely hilarious to watch if you could live that long.

He'll carbon date it, realize it's from the 21st century, and knows that's a good enough explanation for any weird shit he finds.

I love the idea of making things purely to confuse future archeologist.

I think the 3D printed amulets will be enough evidence that it's from our era. Either that or there will be papers written about the advanced manufacturing capabilities of ancient Egyptians gifted to them by the half animal/half human looking ancient aliens.

​@@beskamir5977seeing how people think and work. The later is more likely

The sale is still open, see the pinned comment!

Dear gosh-

Chicken ghost :))

LOL 😂

@@phagnutpn1531 Poultrygeist

They will be send to the chicken realm! 😂

The chicken's spirit will dig up that really cringe thing they posted 15 years ago on the internet as part of its curse.

Hopefully went down easier than modern embalming fluid

​@@Owlmeatsandbeaksisn't modern embalming fluid like 90/99% formaldehyde??? 💀💀💀

@@thelordofthelostbraincells extremely spicy yes

ikr, its so disrespectful tbh

They didn't consider it food but a medicine, have you been paying attention son?

​@@GaiusCaligula234it's a meme bruh 😂

@@mikel2976 what meme

​@@GaiusCaligula234Gordon Ramsay says "finally, some good fucking food" after nothing but failed dishes from people on one of his shows.

That is how one respects an ancient history and their religious practices

I call it being autistic (Am one myself, hold your horses 😂) but this is one of those things where I'm like 'been there, done that'.. Went to Thailand just to taste Krating Daeng and to Naples to harvest local wild yeast for pizza dough

I remember back in my day we had to go all the way to Egypt to source our organic mummies. One trip I caught malaria and had to go back home early.

I, being a around 300-400 years old i can tell you for certain that i used some mummy in my food every now and then and still do today.

@@DJl3iohazordI can’t tell, is this satirical lol?

Just be happy it’s not a life hack channel

​@@user-vi8vw8cw8fprobably not, perhaps speaking from early work experience or some sort as again the (two) documentation papers used in this video only go as early as 1997 (if i recall correctly).

I know! I want to be their friend so bad.

Calm down

There were still story tellers tho

I don't think this would have been done by anyone in their free time. Mortician is a real profession today, I'm sure it was one back then too, especially if the process is so intricate and religiously significant.

I imagine it was done by dedicated morticians like today

@@croma2068 That's what I mean though, all there was to do was work essentially so that's what people did.

​@@legend7951 People weren't working all the time tho, there was also time to drink beer, pray, watch events or participate in various events, riot, and other stuff

Remember to allow holes pointing to the north star so the soul of the chicken and leave and return to the body.

Are you vegan, by any chance?

@@Juliprog Chicken's soul will be judged by the scale of Osiris, and your soul will be too.

@@lolasdm6959 umm no thanks. also, i meant that pablo guy but maybe you got that, idk

@@Juliprog nope, i was just joking about lying them to rest like a real pharaoh

Wasn't there a guy in 1997 mentioned IN the video?

PROPERLY mummified@@michaelfixedsys7463

@@michaelfixedsys7463 So... a single chicken, and Dave from Saskatoon.

Do you think a stint in a vacuum chamber would hasten the evaporation of the volatiles?

Accelerated Aging Tests would be neat!

Incorrect

@@dongvermine Care to elaborate?

@@nathangamble125 No, they don't.

I wonder what curses a chicken pharoh would unleash on you.

@@shinybugg9156 Probably make you act like chicken, like, clucking, growing little feathers, having a taste for corn and bugs, etc.

@@shinybugg9156 The curse known as Salmonella Enterica by the modern civilization

That's fascinating! Thank you!

It’d be so interesting to see you do a contrasting video where you recreate the one you made “with little resources” 😁

They weren’t settlers? Or do you mean sedentary? BTW those South American indigenous people may have started mummifying the dead earlier but as they definitely weren’t in contact with the Egyptians, it’s still accurate to say that Egyptians independently invented mummification. No offense but are you actually an archeologist? because, and again no offense, you don’t sound like the archeologists I know.

The Chinchorro people weren’t nomadic, but lived a mostly sedentary lifestyle while still hunting and gathering. Also the oldest recovered mummies from that area were naturally mummified in the Atacama desert. And with the climate in that area being one of the driest in the world with lots of natural salt deposits, it seems that a body just would not have decomposed there. I also read that climate change is making the humidity higher and the mummies are right now starting to decompose at a fast rate. Which is just sad and would be huge loss for humanity. It also means that those mummies wouldn’t have survived this long in Egypt and both are very different processes with little similarities apart from both being dead, salted, dried and altered. The Egyptian mummification was more akin to embalming, which the Chinchorro mummification did nothing similar to because there was no need for such a thing with their dry climate .

@@vinny184​​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​​⁠​⁠I have to agree with you on this 100%. This person may be studying archaeology but I highly doubt they are an archaeologist. Incorrect facts, improper use of nomenclature… I just don’t believe it all. Besides the fact that the Chinchorro people never engaged in an artificial mummification process.. the bodies were wrapped in reeds and buried. The salt in the dry soil of the Atacama Desert helped preserve the bodies, but this was a result of where they were buried not due to embalming. Although buried a couple thousand years before the Egyptian mummies, nothing else is really relevant as the Egyptians took such measures to preserve because of the land, climate and heat. The Chinchorro mummies would not have lasted as long as the Egyptian mummies if buried with that same process in Egypt. I think it is in no way accurate, at all, to consider the Chinchorro people the originators of mummification.

The chicken speaking French makes this 100% better

Was I the only person expecting them to actually eat the chicken & not just the preservatives?

​@@LinkMcStinkpreeeetty sure that they would have joined that chicken if they actually ate it

@@mihngu_ I wouldn't think it'd be any deadlier than the actual embalming fluids they tasted. Besides, it'd serve em right for creating such a clickbaity thumbnail.

@@LinkMcStink they mentioned it on the video that they were planning on eating it but they messed up in not changing the nitran and it didn't smell safe to eat.

i wonder if this video is going to be shown in mortuary schools from now on

​@@K.ArashiQuite possibly! I'm going to send it to my pals at my mortuary school too, but the industry is very conservative so they may edit it. I think this video was super fun!!

​@@tragedtylertoo many jokes about the dead chicken?

@diegoolivares1081 too much laughter and being happy. No one can have fun in funeral service! ~ this is sarcasm

Hey, archaeologists here! Egyptians did not invent mummification! It was the chinchorro communities in the Atacama Dessert of South America, they had two types of mummification and are up to a thousand years older than than their Egyptian counterparts, and are remarkable as all of their population specially babies are the ones mummified instead of the only pharaohs that the Egyptians started with.

Same

yep, but i rather give this channel millions then elon or the other shit wags. as it allows really fun stupid ideas to be done that also on the side get some lovly science done.

They don’t get a pass. Anubis won’t like it

@@Someone-sq8im Anubis may not like it, but that doesn't change the fact that Hen-Nefr is, indeed, there before Maat.

Nah, that chicken has a heart of lead.

This time, on tasting history... Now that would be a great crossover 😂

Now that's an interesting video. An episode on Victorian quack medicine and cure-alls

Agreed 🎉😊

I was about to say "decades? Don't you mean millennia?" But then I remembered, yeah, late 90s human mummification experiment

@@kadebrockhausen technically It didn’t have the book of the dead spells so it wouldn’t have passed the trials, but the chicken…

Even worse, a lot of people had already done it thousands of years before you! You really got beaten to the jump there.

I believe you are referencing Bob Brier and Ronald Wade’s National Geographic special on it, they (weirdly) cite Bob Brier in this video but both misspelt his name and seem to have misinterpreted some of his papers on the subject regarding the use of some mummification tools (especially the obsidian blade, which has been known to not be a ceremonial item for quite some time now, given bronze doesn’t cut as well) Edit: grammar, shortened sentence for efficacy.

I am at the beginning of the video, but I came here wondering why they didn’t mention this work. I love Bob Brier!

Maybe a further atemt

Try sending them an email?

Man I would love to buy them in bulk and make some calligraphies in them. It's sad that this ancient art is so close to extinction

Is there anywhere who can teach us how to make it? That's an art that needs preserving

@@SombreroPharoah Yeah check out the Papyrus Institute near Giza they have workshops

@@SombreroPharoah Well do you happen to have papyrus growing around?

Exactly what I was thinking. It probably mellowed out a lot after thousands of years.

What about the mass spectrometer? I dont assume they tasted or smelled the mummy, intentionally. The radicals mightve broken down over time, though.

I wonder if you can cook them or even vacuum them first to get something closer to the real deal.

Knowing many researchers, she'd probably be stoked.

​@@erinasnow"Now how did that make you feel? This is for science, so try to be thorough."

*So he can taste your mummified flesh

Tbh I wish people had this kind of reverence for the meat they ate. We would take it way less for granted and imo we should really care for and about the things that give their lives to sustain us. I say that as someone who raises sheep chickens and ducks for meat and it really makes you think differently about your food.

get the f**k out of my lecturing hall, Diogenes (:

yeah I didn't think the morgue would let them just take a corpse, but apparently I was wrong

Ikr?? I don't even know where they found such a small feathered human... Must have gone to somewhere exotic like Canada or something!

According to Diogenes, it is a human

@@sammyjones8279 you know what they say about featherless bipeds...

i imagine, since it's been millenia, they've repurposed it to something else. like, say, a hospital. and then suddenly comes this chicken with max level defense spells. creating chaos. a chicken loose in the hospital. and no one can catch it

​@@K.ArashiKane sibling reference?

@@VinhNguyen-wh8js more of a john mulaney reference

@@K.Arashi ah. I get it now

I wouldn't put that past NileRed though...

How are you referencing this "nutritional chemical mummification" as if it's common knowledge? Umm, details, wtf?

​@@dancoroian1They're referencing the process that TE used to make chicken flavoring

@@hawkerm8419 oh. Duh, that makes a lot more sense 😆

​@@quadrilaturalSamurainile red: I made a mummy using iron nails

the professionals would probably think its amazing that people thousands of years in the future would be partaking in their craft and culture even if its for a bit

This isn't *just* a bit. This is actual experimental archaeology and they are writing a paper on it.

Microdosing funerary rites is the only way I can afford a burial lol

More will be available soon! Check back in a bit

No but imagine if mummies were superconductors - it’d be like the Victorian era all over again

It's the room temperature superconductor we've all been waiting for

@@colmryan9289 They'd be so mad at the victorians for eating them all

As a neopagan interested in kemetic belief, the effort and respect involved in this project was stunning to see. Most people don't really care about respecting ancient traditions.

Historically, she might be right, but technically... it would have taken so much time to carve that the selling price wouldn't have made any sense ;) Gotta stay practical there! (I am the printer and also experienced in woodblock).

I'm afraid neither woodblock or screen print was available in ancient Egypt. Sumerian's did have rollin seals but they were for clay tablets if I remember correctly.

His dad could make wood blocks for it, but its gonna take a year to get all the glyphs done. Especially the custom chicken glyphs.

​@@SerigrapheBourgeoisey'all never heard of a cnc mill?

Bonus points if it's done correctly enough that it would meet the criteria of sending your soul to the Egyptian afterlife, so if it were to exist, Anubis would still be scratching his head over the first properly mummified soul in thousands of years being a chicken, then just a few decades after that instance, you, another human shows up. Imagine explaining everything that happened with the mummies over the years to Anubis. Anubis: Let me get this straight, you're telling me that this burial practice has been completely and utterly abandoned by humanity for thousands of years, and the ONLY TWO instances of properly enbalmed bodies sent to me were the product of... "Confusing future archeologists" and... "Taste testing mummy resin"? You, possibly: Yup. Anubis: Who would desecrate another's tomb for the sake of tasting corpse resin? You, possibly: Europeans in the Victorian era are the direct cause of mummies becoming so rare in modern times, actually. Anubis: Did they destroy the tombs out of jealousy or something? You, possibly: Nah, they just ate them. Anubis: w h a t

Natron just naturally is those salts in that ratio, I don't think it was purposeful beyond that. BUT a trick from cooking is that if you want to dry skin out you use baking soda. Carbonates work better to pull water out without turning into sludge. They tend to just cake. Pure salt tends to turn to mush so you don't actually dry things properly you just pickle them. But I'm sure if you used enough pure salt would work fine.

The water content of the Sodium carbonate is obviously of paramount importance here. It would seem most likely that the monohydrate was used, which is neither very good at taking up water nor at releasing it into dry air. In order to make this work with minimized death stink from basic protein hydrolysis, the anhydrous form would have to be used in a suitably dry environment.

​​​@@thethoughtemporiumI think it's a happy coincidence that Natron is mostly basic NaCO3, and bases promote the Maillard reaction. Formaldehyde chemical fixation works in large part by turning amines into Schiff bases. Most essential oils are high in reactive phenols and catechols, just like wood smoke. Low molecular weight amines like trimethylamine and putrescine make up the bulk of death stank, and the treatment sequesters these side chains before they volatilize. The darkening strongly suggests that the treatment is chemically cooking the proteins, browning them forming complex high MW chemicals (that also smell amazing). it's literally analogous to smoking. Tl;dr - mummy actually is chemically very close to jerky

​@@thethoughtemporiumcan confirm, when i worked with sheep-skins, we'd have to buy a specific salt, and reapply every once in a while to avoid the salt becoming too wet/mushy and spoiling the skins 😅😬