"Amundamn it, what did you put in this incense?? You know what? So you don't mess this up again I'll write it in stone on the wall" - Egyptian Priest about to immortalize their recipe for incense
I cant remember if its masonic alien helicopter or eye. I guess we need more sticky bee goo from the store, so i wanna get going before RA closes the stargate. I'll leave the keys to the flinstones car on the counter.
My favourite hieroglyph is the one you can transliterate to "chem" I believe, its a pair of shrugging arms, and it literally means "not to know"... I love it so much
This kinda stuff is still done in a lot of Labs around the world where the researchers put up "recipes" for regularly used mixtures and processes on sticky notes around their work stations. It's actually a smart and handy thing to do
@@javelin1423 It's more likely that they didn't want it to get confused with a mosquito, fly or some other flying bugs so they exaggerate the identifying piece of a bee
Well, various science thing have boards for writing and posters with important info. Ig this was like some sort of a poster, just kinda set in stone due to, perhaps, importance, or idk why they haven't used papyrus. Surely made the writing preserve better.
That's the reason we have so much onformations about egyptian after-life, they wrote all the steps to get to the after-life on the walls of the tombs to make sure the deads will not forget them XD Then they wrote them on the sarcophagus, and on books placed in the tomb, just to be reaaaally sure ^^
This is how Chinese characters evolved too. It began as symbolic pictures or representations of things. The word for goat still has two flicks at the top representing the horns.
@@scanningallvidzs forest and tree are one of my faves cuz its simple and straightforward. Forest 森 just being a bunch of trees 木 together and tree just being a stick with branches 🤣
Even the Latin script goes back to drawings if you go as far back as Proto-sinaitic (although that too goes back to hieroglyphs). Our letter A (the shape more than the sound) was an Ox. H a fence, O an eye, M water, P a head. It’s raider to visualize with drawings look up “Possible correspondences between Proto-Sinaitic and Phoenician letters”
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I think the most adorable part is how they literally just wrote the recipe right on the wall so they could check it at any time. Like, these days so many employers expect you to just memorize shit, even if it would cost them nothing to have a list and would reduce errors. But these guys were like nah this shit's important, can't leave anything to chance, on the wall it goes. My favourite part is they don't need a book stand or anything, they can just look straight forward and there it is!
Usually we call them SoP or Standards of Practice. Old school places have a three-ring binder of recipes and most places just keep it on an intranet website. Just like this recipe on the wall, you're still supposed to memorize it. You just check from time to time to make sure you haven't deviated from the standard
Well thats cuz it was probably used in rituals and ceremonies so it was extra important to them, their whole civilization had emphasis on that. Who knows maybe the white house has important stuff on the walls too. But you can’t compare that to the working life of today lol unless you work for nasa or something lol
Most of these people just like many of us today, would naturally memorize recipes, they only needed to read the wall a few times when they're first learning it. We still have to learn recipes the first time from a cookbook or online. I have hundreds of cookbooks, but I rarely have to open them now because most of my recipes I just memorized over time. Ancient Egyptians were as perceptive and intelligent as we are, they probably were expected to eventually be able to make their incense and things without running back to the wall every single time they make the thing. Someone is trained and then they're expected to remember that training, it was the same back then. Ancient people wrote battle strategies on walls to teach young soldiers being trained, but those soldiers had to memorize everything to go out in the field, they didn't consult notes lol, not while you're on the clock. Written materials were for training mostly.
would you consider making some? i tried looking it up on yt but its just witches using essential oils, herbs and taking a bunch of creative liberties. i'd really like to see it recreated as closely to the original recipe as possible. i tried making it once a long time ago but it was really bad lol.
@@thethoughtemporium I would love to learn how to make ancient Egyptian perfumes and incense. Also curious what biblical "anointing oil" actually is? (Used for the King's Coronation so timely/relevant)
I think its so cool that they literally carved their knowledge on their walls. Its almost poetic, right? a building containing the knowledge that was practiced there
@@ItsAsparageese If you're somewhat serious about preserving a text, I'd suggest you a big, solid stelae. Castles are made of stone, but they're very costly and collapse easily. A 10 ton monolith in the middle of nowhere will potentially remain legible for thousands of years.
Let's see, if I'm reading this right, you take some honey, three ground up aloe leaves, three fish eggs, one whole penguin...this isn't gonna be a weekend project, I can tell already.
Just so you know, hieroglyphics arent ALWAYS read from right to left, it depends on which way the hieroglyphs are facing, as you read facing towards the hieroglyphs. If they're facing left, you read from left to right, if they're facing right, you read from right to left as shown in the video (it doesn't matter whether they're in a collumn or not, you still apply the same logic) hope this helps!
"Bit" is a made-up by egyptologysts pronunciation since 100 hears ago they didn't have language reconstruction techniques and just added random vowels and replased /w/ with /u/ & /j/ with /i/. /biˈjat/ is a reconstructed pronunciation (there's video "What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like - and how we know" by NativLang if you are curious), basically we can't say with 100% confidence that bjt (consonants of the word, they were written) was pronounced like biˈjat, but we can say that with 99% confidence.
@@nicolesong6199 the Tang dynasty-Song dynasty pronunciation (中古漢語) for 蜜 is "myit", but Putonghua has no more 入聲 at the back so it now sounds like mì
@@astrOtubaconsidering that J is very uncommon in middle eastern languages, it’s not too difficult to come to the conclusion that it’s not pronounced bijat
Glenn: I'm gonna try something a little different today with the incense. I mean its not like the recipe is written in stone. Greg: Glenn you cant do that
I am OBSESSED with the bee hieroglyphs. The one for "beekeeper" is a bee, a skep that's just a half circle, and a guy either making gabby hands or holding a stick. Skeps are awesome too- laziest beekeeping ever. Just give the bees an upturned woven bowl and let them build the comb as they please. So cool
I love doing calligraphy, ESPECIALLY with runes. I even make my own ciphers from time to time. I also use both parchment AND papyrus for my works. It's really cool to see someone make a video about a craft they made that's similar to stuff I've done. I don't really see many scribes or calligraphers on social media or UA-cam, so this is a pleasant surprise
@@Kira_Martel I thought I sent a reply when I first read this, but I guess not. I wanted to ask what accounts those are, since I do have an Instagram account, but I rarely post or even scroll there. It'd be nice to start putting my calligraphy on there like I once considered, and to follow other calligraphers as well.
I wish it was like a recipe online; starting with a looooong story youve got to scroll through before you get to it. Like "this incense recipe reminds me of grandma's house on a Tuesday when I was a little kid..."
The name isn't bijat but /biˈjat/. That's in the international phonetic alphabet where /j/ is pronounced like in . Also is just the Egyptologist pronunciation of the word not the actual Egyptian pronunciation. It's de4ived from the consonants of the word since Ancient Egyptian was written without vowels like Semitic languages still are
That would actually be a really cute idea - have an accent wall in a kitchen...or maybe the back splash? Of your favorite family recipes. It would also keep us from losing my grandpa's pumpkin pie recipe every year 😂
I Was part of an excavation of an Anasazi site in East Central Arizona. The lab would take the broken pottery and reassemble the pots and jars. One vessel painted in typical Tulerosa style depicted a turkey glyph surrounded by the glyphs for Maize. After some bickering and contemplation within the group my Aunt spoke up and said it held Feed for the Turkeys. Mystery solved!
I have a stone with some of the smallest hieroglyphs, I've ever seen. The stone is gray/green and originally carved to resemble a scarab beetle. This stone was presented to my Great Uncle in Egypt, in 1923, by a 'Head of State' from a recently unearthed tomb. He had a special mounting made for the stone at that time in 9K gold, so that he could wear it as a ring, and with an open back so that the hieroglyphs would still be visible. My Great Uncle was David Smith, a Captain for the White Star Steamship Line at that time.
Its interesting that the writing on the walls method shows just how much they valued information but didn't have the means to conveniently share it without it incurring a significant cost.
I love how when we first looked at temple walls, we thought they were inscribed with protective spells or curses for those who dared disturb the site… and it turns out they were just post-it notes with recipes and instructions on them.
From what I understand, the Japanese character for happiness depicts in very basic form a single woman underneath a roof. The character for chaos is *2* woman underneath a roof. 😂
We’re kind of used to the idea of ancient Egyptians because we’ve heard about them since we were kids. But when you try to imagine how incredibly OLD these societies are it boggles the mind. They were long gone and an ancient people when the Roman Empire was a thing, they themselves were around so long ago that as the colosseum fell into ruin people actually forgot what it was for.
My favourite hieroglyph is from the Ptolemaic Period. It's a man riding two giraffes. I have only seen it in indexes, never in use but oh man is it great. Ptolemaic hieroglyphs are wild.
That “j” is pronounced like an English “y” (/j/ in IPA). That Egyptian word is probably also related to “bee” in English, as words for “bee” in Indo-European tend to have a foreign or substrate origin (cf. Latin apis/apēs, German Imme “bee” and the lookalike ἐμπίς in Ancient Greek meaning “mosquito”, all suspiciously similar to the supposedly native PIE *bʰey-).
Interesting fact, the hieroglyphs were first painted in red by a novice and then corrected in black by a more skilled writer and finally painted in colour/carved by the main writer/artist.
"Amundamn it, what did you put in this incense?? You know what? So you don't mess this up again I'll write it in stone on the wall" - Egyptian Priest about to immortalize their recipe for incense
That's probably what happened 😂
"Amundamn it", lol. That one goes right into everyday's language.
@lonestarr1490 that flew over my head until I saw you said something about it 🤣🤣
Since it's in Horus' temple wouldn't "Horus damn it!" more relevant?
@@P.Whitestrake Yes
I can just see a priest turning to another and saying:
“Hey, can you double check the wall? I can’t remember if it’s teaspoons or tablespoons”
"oh yeah bro i gotchu...
...it's teaspoons, just checked."
😂😂😂😂 its a little t
I cant remember if its masonic alien helicopter or eye. I guess we need more sticky bee goo from the store, so i wanna get going before RA closes the stargate. I'll leave the keys to the flinstones car on the counter.
@@saturdaynighto74261 I didn’t understand 90% of that, but love the Star Gate reference
@@OctagonalSquare Gen Z humor you wouldn't understand
My favourite hieroglyph is the one you can transliterate to "chem" I believe, its a pair of shrugging arms, and it literally means "not to know"... I love it so much
My favorite is the one for "to give to someone" it's a pot with legs
Took chemistry this year. Ik it’s ã transliteration but I think two shrugging arms is the best way to describe the class
my favorite is Seshen, a lotus flower shaped hieroglyphic, meaning: lotus flower
Couldn't find anything about this. Got a link?
I believe you mean pronounce as chem rather than translate to chem but that is great.
This kinda stuff is still done in a lot of Labs around the world where the researchers put up "recipes" for regularly used mixtures and processes on sticky notes around their work stations. It's actually a smart and handy thing to do
Sticky notes won't last millenia.
@@jannikheidemann3805 They do if you use tape ಠ ͜ʖ ಠ
@@rkang6531sticky notes are unattractive esp. when taped. Just write it on the wall
I love how massive the stinger is on the bee drawing. Really puts the emphasis on what matters lol
"You're gonna need some sweet sticky stuff from these mf'ers, bring a pot... and watch out THEY STING.
Were talking about african bees here.
maybe the bees are huge thousand years ago, though I don't why they shrunk if its true
I didn’t realise it was the stinger initially, thought it was a second random pot or block of stuff 😂 But wow ok that is huge lol
@@javelin1423 It's more likely that they didn't want it to get confused with a mosquito, fly or some other flying bugs so they exaggerate the identifying piece of a bee
"papyrus"
I hear how his laughing gets louder...
Why don't we write important things on the walls anymore? 😆
I mean, I guess we still do kind of, like murals (in some cases), memorials, plaques, etc. Definitely not as fun as this, though haha.
We do. That's what "no smoking" and emergency exit signs are.
Well, various science thing have boards for writing and posters with important info. Ig this was like some sort of a poster, just kinda set in stone due to, perhaps, importance, or idk why they haven't used papyrus. Surely made the writing preserve better.
The is no way a modern wall will last hundreds of years lmao
@@Bruh-wb3qw Thats was the perfect answer😂
"how can we be sure we're doing this right?" "just engrave the recipe on the wall lmao"
sometimes, the simple solution is the best.
That's the reason we have so much onformations about egyptian after-life, they wrote all the steps to get to the after-life on the walls of the tombs to make sure the deads will not forget them XD
Then they wrote them on the sarcophagus, and on books placed in the tomb, just to be reaaaally sure ^^
This is how Chinese characters evolved too. It began as symbolic pictures or representations of things. The word for goat still has two flicks at the top representing the horns.
The symbol for turtle 龜 literally looks like a turtle 🐢 if you turn the emoji sideways with the head pointing up and the legs towards the left
@@scanningallvidzs forest and tree are one of my faves cuz its simple and straightforward. Forest 森 just being a bunch of trees 木 together and tree just being a stick with branches 🤣
Even the Latin script goes back to drawings if you go as far back as Proto-sinaitic (although that too goes back to hieroglyphs). Our letter A (the shape more than the sound) was an Ox. H a fence, O an eye, M water, P a head. It’s raider to visualize with drawings look up “Possible correspondences between Proto-Sinaitic and Phoenician letters”
@@yucol5661 P is a mouth, R is a head
IIRC the character for cat is a combination of grass, field and dog.
"oh, it's like a dog but it slinks around in the grass in the fields."
And millennia later, we've come full circle with "🐝🍯".
orz
uwu
Or, a few millennial latter
@@deoneforpeace..........What?
@@BuriedFlame orz uwu (whatever that means) to you, too.
@@SiiriCressey Gosh.....Must have thought been commenting on a different video!!!....I don't see the relatedness either now!!....THANK YOUUUU.....BEST BLESSED WISHES FOR THE NEW YEAR 2024 🙏 💞 💖
And now we're drawing emoji. Old is new again. 🍯🐝
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I think the most adorable part is how they literally just wrote the recipe right on the wall so they could check it at any time. Like, these days so many employers expect you to just memorize shit, even if it would cost them nothing to have a list and would reduce errors. But these guys were like nah this shit's important, can't leave anything to chance, on the wall it goes. My favourite part is they don't need a book stand or anything, they can just look straight forward and there it is!
Actually we do...
Usually we call them SoP or Standards of Practice. Old school places have a three-ring binder of recipes and most places just keep it on an intranet website. Just like this recipe on the wall, you're still supposed to memorize it. You just check from time to time to make sure you haven't deviated from the standard
Well thats cuz it was probably used in rituals and ceremonies so it was extra important to them, their whole civilization had emphasis on that. Who knows maybe the white house has important stuff on the walls too.
But you can’t compare that to the working life of today lol unless you work for nasa or something lol
😂 No.
Most of these people just like many of us today, would naturally memorize recipes, they only needed to read the wall a few times when they're first learning it. We still have to learn recipes the first time from a cookbook or online. I have hundreds of cookbooks, but I rarely have to open them now because most of my recipes I just memorized over time. Ancient Egyptians were as perceptive and intelligent as we are, they probably were expected to eventually be able to make their incense and things without running back to the wall every single time they make the thing. Someone is trained and then they're expected to remember that training, it was the same back then. Ancient people wrote battle strategies on walls to teach young soldiers being trained, but those soldiers had to memorize everything to go out in the field, they didn't consult notes lol, not while you're on the clock. Written materials were for training mostly.
would you consider making some? i tried looking it up on yt but its just witches using essential oils, herbs and taking a bunch of creative liberties. i'd really like to see it recreated as closely to the original recipe as possible. i tried making it once a long time ago but it was really bad lol.
Already have. Needed it for a bigger project but there'll be a dedicated video on making it as well
@@thethoughtemporium thank you!!!!
@@thethoughtemporium I'm looking forward to it!
@@thethoughtemporium how is it, does it smell nice?
@@thethoughtemporium I would love to learn how to make ancient Egyptian perfumes and incense. Also curious what biblical "anointing oil" actually is? (Used for the King's Coronation so timely/relevant)
I think its so cool that they literally carved their knowledge on their walls. Its almost poetic, right? a building containing the knowledge that was practiced there
Me, half-serious about building a stone castle on rural land someday: _Write that down, WRITE THAT DOWN! ... on a wall!_ 😂
@@ItsAsparageese If you're somewhat serious about preserving a text, I'd suggest you a big, solid stelae. Castles are made of stone, but they're very costly and collapse easily. A 10 ton monolith in the middle of nowhere will potentially remain legible for thousands of years.
I carve the voices on the walls
Casually drops the fact that you wrote beautiful hieroglyphs on authentic papayas
Love the typo
I like putting my hieroglyphs on mangos myself 😂
I prefer carving them in coconut myself
Guava ftw💪
Papyrus
Now i wanna see a video of you recreating the kyphi incense
Me too!
Yes please 🙏
The end!
The sheer power that he said "Draw a BEE AND A POT"
Let's see, if I'm reading this right, you take some honey, three ground up aloe leaves, three fish eggs, one whole penguin...this isn't gonna be a weekend project, I can tell already.
😅😂
This papyrus writing is graphically very elegant !
Its just very delicate. Look at one individual picture. The linework is no better than my writing
@@melody3741 hater
Just so you know, hieroglyphics arent ALWAYS read from right to left, it depends on which way the hieroglyphs are facing, as you read facing towards the hieroglyphs. If they're facing left, you read from left to right, if they're facing right, you read from right to left as shown in the video (it doesn't matter whether they're in a collumn or not, you still apply the same logic) hope this helps!
Bee and a pot… must have been the original language of Winnie the Pooh.
I'm drinking a Mocha, but now you've made me want orange cinnamon tea with honey. 🐝🍯 You've flipped my weekend upside down!😂
Interesting because the chinese character 蜜 for honey is pronounced "bit" in minnan (hokkien) too
"Bit" is a made-up by egyptologysts pronunciation since 100 hears ago they didn't have language reconstruction techniques and just added random vowels and replased /w/ with /u/ & /j/ with /i/. /biˈjat/ is a reconstructed pronunciation (there's video "What Ancient Egyptian Sounded Like - and how we know" by NativLang if you are curious), basically we can't say with 100% confidence that bjt (consonants of the word, they were written) was pronounced like biˈjat, but we can say that with 99% confidence.
蜜汁? Mizhi? Honey juice?
@@nicolesong6199
the Tang dynasty-Song dynasty pronunciation (中古漢語) for 蜜 is "myit", but Putonghua has no more 入聲 at the back so it now sounds like mì
@@astrOtubaconsidering that J is very uncommon in middle eastern languages, it’s not too difficult to come to the conclusion that it’s not pronounced bijat
Is your profession Egyptology as you sound rather knowledgeable, perhaps linguistics? Maybe an interest?
O.K. I wanna get this recipe over to my aromatherapist ASAP.
Imagine if people today wrote their personal journals on walls, would feel kinda weird knowing everyone would see it
I said quit following me. Seriously it’s weird.
Is that not a trope attributed to madmen?
Basically social media
@@ecospider5 how am i always the first one to point out that it's a bot?
They do. Facebook literally has a wall.
Glenn: I'm gonna try something a little different today with the incense. I mean its not like the recipe is written in stone.
Greg: Glenn you cant do that
Did it start with a personal story from their childhood?
LOL a story about their kid getting sick and having to take care of them in the middle of carving the recipe into the wall 😭
They invented the emojis 🍯 🐝
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Does this have an official translation? I really want to try my hand at making this.
Me too
I would use Google, not a YT comment. Look up "recipe for incense" from whatever the full name of the temple was
I've got to admit, that is pretty cute.
thank you for noting that it’s not an ancient relic lol 😅 working in museums has made me hyper sensitive lmaoo. beautiful hieroglyphs btw, well done
I mean, I would have a hard time believing it's an actual relic given how beautifully preserved it is XD
I wouldn't have even touch it let alone taking it out of the glass if it was authentic
That's a great idea! Kitchens should come with recipes carved onto their walls.
I like the Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tubeman above and to the right of the one you pointed out!
Egyptian here, studied Egyptology AMA
I am OBSESSED with the bee hieroglyphs. The one for "beekeeper" is a bee, a skep that's just a half circle, and a guy either making gabby hands or holding a stick. Skeps are awesome too- laziest beekeeping ever. Just give the bees an upturned woven bowl and let them build the comb as they please. So cool
I love doing calligraphy, ESPECIALLY with runes. I even make my own ciphers from time to time. I also use both parchment AND papyrus for my works. It's really cool to see someone make a video about a craft they made that's similar to stuff I've done. I don't really see many scribes or calligraphers on social media or UA-cam, so this is a pleasant surprise
I create symbols for reading writing. It's faster to read then letters.
Symbols hold more info too.
Oh man you're missing a whole community out there. Calligraphy is actually pretty big on social media, especially Instagram.
@@Kira_Martel I thought I sent a reply when I first read this, but I guess not. I wanted to ask what accounts those are, since I do have an Instagram account, but I rarely post or even scroll there. It'd be nice to start putting my calligraphy on there like I once considered, and to follow other calligraphers as well.
@@KrakatonMain Let me know if you can see this reply.
Cringe af
You made that copy by hand? If so it's very nice work.
Bee and Pot... I thought it looked like a tongue licking a bee's behind. BUT I can also see it being interpreted as a pot...😂
Murray Gell-mann insisted he spoke Mayan and it drove Feynman nuts
But when asked to demonstrate, he professed Gell-Mann amnesia.
Wow, your copy looks absolutely amazing!
Duuuude you forgot to give up the recipe!!
“…it’s a copy I made myself.” Bro thought he could subtly flex on our subconscious.
how cool, can you show us how to translate the whole recipe?
I wish it was like a recipe online; starting with a looooong story youve got to scroll through before you get to it. Like "this incense recipe reminds me of grandma's house on a Tuesday when I was a little kid..."
if only modern scientists would be so graceful in assigning names
The best part of hieroglyphics is that they usually look like children's drawings too
We want the incense recipe dude!
Imagine walking into a kitchen and all the recipes are just written all over the walls
I would like to have the recipe please in our modern language
WOW!!! I love 💗 ancient recipes found, it is the closest to time traveling we can get.
But... where do we get the recipe?
It’s right there. Translate, b*tch.😅
We don't know what half of the ingredients translate to, since they have not been found in any other recipe, so we can't replicate the perfume
Love the little bee that came near the pot... I'd like to think that she came to recover her stolen honey by herself.😂
"If you are vegan, you can substitute the honey for palm syrup"
The name isn't bijat but /biˈjat/. That's in the international phonetic alphabet where /j/ is pronounced like in . Also is just the Egyptologist pronunciation of the word not the actual Egyptian pronunciation. It's de4ived from the consonants of the word since Ancient Egyptian was written without vowels like Semitic languages still are
fun fact: the English alphabet is, in large part, actually a distant descendant of Egyptian Hieroglyphics
how?
@@germantutoring iirc it goes:
Ancient Egyptian > Proto Sinaitic > Phoenician > Ancient Greek > Latin > English
The A is the shape of an ox's head when looking upsidedown
@@deltap6967 yeah kinda weird they rolled it onto the side where it doesn't look like an Ox's head anymore
@@Tomartyr I think it's faster to carve / write? Plus it's may be to distinguish between A and V
Now those _bit_ _o'_ _honey_ candies I ate hit different. ❤🍯 🍬
I absolutely love this!!
"Hey do we need to add the musk before or after we boil the water lilies?"
"Uh, hold on, I'll check the wall."
I love how they make the stinger huge to make it very clear they're talking about a bee 😂
That would actually be a really cute idea - have an accent wall in a kitchen...or maybe the back splash? Of your favorite family recipes.
It would also keep us from losing my grandpa's pumpkin pie recipe every year 😂
Very nice copy! Looks awesome!
Humans now: Honey, the sweet nectar
Humans then: 🐝🏺
She needed her phone to call her dentist about her new dentures.😂
I can see that eyeballs with mascara and storks standing on little islands were popular scents back in those days.
I Was part of an excavation of an Anasazi site in East Central Arizona. The lab would take the broken pottery and reassemble the pots and jars. One vessel painted in typical Tulerosa style depicted a turkey glyph surrounded by the glyphs for Maize. After some bickering and contemplation within the group my Aunt spoke up and said it held Feed for the Turkeys. Mystery solved!
Simple picto', beautiful. Translates to all.
Definitely saw a smiley face on there 😂
I love those original Egyptians,they've taught the world so much
I have a stone with some of the smallest hieroglyphs, I've ever seen. The stone is gray/green and originally carved to resemble a scarab beetle. This stone was presented to my Great Uncle in Egypt, in 1923, by a 'Head of State' from a recently unearthed tomb. He had a special mounting made for the stone at that time in 9K gold, so that he could wear it as a ring, and with an open back so that the hieroglyphs would still be visible. My Great Uncle was David Smith, a Captain for the White Star Steamship Line at that time.
"so the priests could regularly check that they were making it correctly"
so glad to see that things havn't changed
Anyone notice the funny smiley face in the top right ¼ of the page?
It will be for all Humanity throughout time, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Its interesting that the writing on the walls method shows just how much they valued information but didn't have the means to conveniently share it without it incurring a significant cost.
I love how when we first looked at temple walls, we thought they were inscribed with protective spells or curses for those who dared disturb the site… and it turns out they were just post-it notes with recipes and instructions on them.
From what I understand, the Japanese character for happiness depicts in very basic form a single woman underneath a roof. The character for chaos is *2* woman underneath a roof. 😂
Imagine working at a bakery and your shop's recipe for bread or cake or whatever is the entire wallpaper. That, is how the ancient Egyptian do.
The writings are so neat. Now, let us see the ancient doctors' writings.
When my husband comes home and asks me wtf I'm doing, I'm telling him you gave me the idea 😂
"What do those hieroglyphs say?"
"See lower glyphs."
"Though it's written on real papyrus and uses actual hieroglyphs... it's actually just a copy I made." That alone earns my like
Imagine being in chemistry class back then and pulling out an entire fucking wall 😭😭😭
Bit looks like a crab smoking a joint and looking longingfully into the distance
We’re kind of used to the idea of ancient Egyptians because we’ve heard about them since we were kids. But when you try to imagine how incredibly OLD these societies are it boggles the mind. They were long gone and an ancient people when the Roman Empire was a thing, they themselves were around so long ago that as the colosseum fell into ruin people actually forgot what it was for.
Me: Draws paimon in a pot. "Stands for emergency food"
Imagine chefs writing some important recipes on the wall
I love your video.
I stay burnin that Kyphi. *Ayylmao meme in the style of an Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph*.
Traditional chinese is also written from top to bottom right to left.
It's not a pot... It's the hive...
No doubt it’s a hive that’s in the background, right?
Well, you did a good job with the hieroglyphs
Imagine being an egyptian and having to inscribe the Bee Movie script onto a wall.
My favourite hieroglyph is from the Ptolemaic Period. It's a man riding two giraffes. I have only seen it in indexes, never in use but oh man is it great. Ptolemaic hieroglyphs are wild.
That “j” is pronounced like an English “y” (/j/ in IPA). That Egyptian word is probably also related to “bee” in English, as words for “bee” in Indo-European tend to have a foreign or substrate origin (cf. Latin apis/apēs, German Imme “bee” and the lookalike ἐμπίς in Ancient Greek meaning “mosquito”, all suspiciously similar to the supposedly native PIE *bʰey-).
You are so clever!
Imagine if the recipe for the bread you ate today was written on your livingroom wall as a motif of Authenticity🃏
I see you 👀 🍞
Interesting fact, the hieroglyphs were first painted in red by a novice and then corrected in black by a more skilled writer and finally painted in colour/carved by the main writer/artist.
I find it funny that we’re slowly going back the hieroglyphics with universal signs like the power button, emojis, etc
Future archeologists will be translating “gather”, “farm fresh”, and of course, “live, laugh, love” from off our walls.
That is more beautiful when you understand ✨
Did anyone else recognize the words... **Papyrus?**
I AM THE GGGGREAT PAPYRUS!