There's a lot more to the Egyptian story than what we know. They were extremely advanced for that many years back in time. They did things without heavy equipment that we'd have a very hard time doing today with heavy equipment.
Its easy to forget that when Cleopatra ruled Egypt the pyramids were already over 2500 years old... and Egypt itself still older. Even in that by-gone era Egypt was already an ancient civilization that made Rome look like a toddler by comparison. Who knows what great discoveries have been lost.
"Aliens" Also, few years back I stumbled upon a theory which said that the big building blocks, the pyramids are made of, where created in place, from a substance similar to our today's concrete and wooden moulds. So no heavy equipment needed. Sill an advanced knowledge though.
That... would be an understatement, my friend. 🙂Kemet continues to be far more advanced than even the Greeks were able to discern prior to renaming it 'Egypt' and establishing Alexandria.
yah. the egyptions were crafty with the knowledge they had but they werent that inventive for an ancient civilization. they made alot of amazing things but not in amazing ways. the greeks, persians, and ancient chinese have way more right being called genious's. egypt was way more concerned with art and religion that inventing things.
McGraw Nelson dumb fool. The egyptians werr great at astronomy and mathmatics and infrastructure building. It took great minds to build the pyramid of giza. The ancient egyptian were ancient to the Romans as the Romans are ti us. They were defo geniuses.
And Khem was an Egyptian creator God. He was also the god of reproduction. Chemists, of course, can produce new and different things by mixing things together, as did the ancient priests of Khem. It's just that the current ones understand more about what they were doing, and how and why they got it.
If you haven't seen the Vsauce video "invention of blue" do yourself a favor and watch it, possibly the best Vsauce video ever (that's saying something)
Eh, it's really good, but it's not the best. Vsauce (1) has the best videos. But Keven (Vsauce2) has been having a lot of really interesting videos in the past year, including that one.
I disagree... that video was one of the worst IMO. It didn't teach me anything, the title was misleading, the contents wasn't interesting. Vsauce has many fantastic videos. Watch those first.
@scishow it sounded very mystic when u started talking about it, then i was like aha.. hes talking about "Neal" something we used since ever and are still using it to this day .. its very common herein the Arab world and its just as unimportant as the abundant silica in our deserts
If it emits IR with visible light. Makes me wonder if you used it as a paint for the exterior of buildings that are in cold climate, could it reduce the cost of heating? I realize that it would only work if at all, on a large scale.
But wouldn't it be mildly toxic? I know that both insoluble copper salts (i.e. basic copper carbonate, one of the ingredients for this pigment) and soluble copper salts (i.e. copper sulfate) can have damaging effects at doses as low as 100mg
Dragos Merisca also didn't it say it gives off UV radiation when exposed to sunlight(I assume due to refraction) would that give you cancer after a while?
lapis lazuli this rock was or is only available in today's Afghanistan. Egyption also used it on Tutankhamun's coffin for example eyebrows and around eye and the head of a Serpent.
both are correct, but some people say that "shone" should be used when there isn't an object and "shined" when there is. So you'd say "he shined a light in my eyes" or "the light shone". As with many English grammar rules there ins't a strict definition of when either is correct though. Personally I think "shone" sounds really weird and never use it, and i never hear anyone use it in the PNW where i live.
I thought they used lapis for all of that, including their eye shadow. It makes sense that they would come up with something else, though. Considering how relatively rare lapis was. And it's toxic, too. (Not something I'd want on my skin)
They were not Egyptians they were pharaoh they original from sudan they were black, Egyptians not black..Egyptians even do not know how pyramids were built...
My son, Julius (who is 3 weeks old), would like to know why (or if?) lullabies help babies to sleep. He and I often watch sci-show together at 4am while I'm up feeding him. Thanks to this show, I'm well equipped to answer his questions about why the sky is blue, and why people have hair around their anus. But I don't know what to tell him about lullabies and babies sleeping. Should I switch off sci-show, and put on a lullaby, when he's done eating and should be going back to sleep? Or is the idea that babies sleep better with lullabies nothing more than a placebo? Thanks, on behalf of a very curious 3 week old.
40 centuries ago: We're making some badass blue dye, from a recipe hard to figure out that deliver a very consistent shade of blue through some very complex chemical mixture and extenuous heating; Today: Earth is flat.
Lol scishow, that pic of the tomb featured at 0:21 is actually the tomb of one of the workers who helped make the pharoah's tomb, not one of the pharaohs tombs :p I think the guys name was Pashedu or something like that
Is there an air temperature at which a fire can't be made and sustained using conventional methods? Is it still possible to build a fire at the coldest possible temperature on earth?
Not related We attribute the non-falling of electrons in the atomic nucleus to the HEISENBERG UNCERTAININTY PRINCIPLE .What is wrong in applying the same to quarks and say that they can't exist in the nucleus (but they do)?
Hathor was Blue, the same reason Krishna was blue - serotonin is increased by blue light and serotonin opens the third eye pineal gland seen internally as blue light - and so blue light is the color of the lunar psychic energy of Hathor.
So I came here after watching "Why the ancient Greeks couldn't see blue" video and the blue falling out of popularity part got me thinking that it's probably because it was so uncommon to majority of the tribes/community at that time, that they probably didnt pay any mind to it.
Nice and dandy, but is emitting IR really such a big deal? There are countless other materials that have this property. Converting from higher to lower energy radiation is rather normal. If it was the other way around it would be really interesting - there is a lot of research going on trying to convert IR or other lower-energy radiation into visible light.
I actually make ultramarine pigment when I get bored sometimes lol. Idk why, it's something to do I suppose. I don't use it for anything, so it's not that I have a reason to. Lol
Is it better than the colour black for hearing up? For example if you had 2 boxes with a sheet if glass over them in the sun 1 with this blue and 1 with a black which would heat up the best? Just a thought.
Now it's only in ancient ruins and you can detect everywhere it was once used. But if it gets used in currency then it will be everywhere and we will lose the ability to detect its ancient use.
Well done and great information. However, a recommendation to the director and producer. The jumps that you make towards the talent are not good. You might think that it keeps the energy going. Instead, it is distracting and breaks the viewers train of thought. Just like it is good to take one's time and savor a bite of food, so too it is good to allow the scene to play out.
Sometimes I entertain the thought of ancient people that have nothing better to do and accidentally discover something, by doing whatever. I mean, "hey let's see what I will get if I heat these sands in the furnace!" or "hey lets cook this food using oil processed from palm trees lol!". Even "hey, lets try riding horse to battle". They must seem like madman at the time.
KungFuBlitzKrieg That's like saying the sky isn't blue. It's all down to perspective and perception. The Nile wasn't blue. It was clear. Water is clear after all. Light filters through water really well, but gradually. Light doesn't fade in one go. First the red part of the spectrum fades, then the orange, then yellow and so on till you're only left with blue to be filtered out. This all happens within the first few meters down from the surface. That's why shallower waters tend to look more green (the water isn't deep enough to filter out green yet) and deeper waters look blue. Blue light travels considerably further. Other factors like algae growth and Cyanobacteria and stuff affect this too. There's a lot more blue light in water than any other colour, so we perceive it as being blue. This is also why we perceive the sky as blue. The earths atmosphere filters light too. But air is clear. The sun is white, yet looks yellow/orange because a lot of the red spectrum has already been filtered out through our atmosphere. You can even test this at home. If you have a white fluorescent light on the ceiling, take the cover off so you can see the actual tube. Lay on the floor and blow cigarette smoke toward the light. It's subtle, but the smoke often takes on a blue shade if the cloud is thick enough.
There's a lot more to the Egyptian story than what we know. They were extremely advanced for that many years back in time. They did things without heavy equipment that we'd have a very hard time doing today with heavy equipment.
Its easy to forget that when Cleopatra ruled Egypt the pyramids were already over 2500 years old... and Egypt itself still older. Even in that by-gone era Egypt was already an ancient civilization that made Rome look like a toddler by comparison. Who knows what great discoveries have been lost.
They didn't have heavy equipment but they had A LOT OF PEOPLE, A LOT OF TIME and a A LOT OF FOOD.
"Aliens"
Also, few years back I stumbled upon a theory which said that the big building blocks, the pyramids are made of, where created in place, from a substance similar to our today's concrete and wooden moulds. So no heavy equipment needed. Sill an advanced knowledge though.
That... would be an understatement, my friend. 🙂Kemet continues to be far more advanced than even the Greeks were able to discern prior to renaming it 'Egypt' and establishing Alexandria.
@@arturocevallossoto5203 lots of food lol 😂 stop the cap
I know about Lapis lazuli through years of mining and crafting
Minecraft yeah boy
Steven Anchundia excuse me, I believe you mean yeaaahhh booooooyyyyyyy
Leokinq16 Same
I thought they were rock pickles
Wasn't there a set of twins in a Robert A. Heinlein named Lapus and Lazuli? Maybe Lazarus Long twin daughter/clones in Long Enough for Love?
it's still used in the rural areas here in egypt and it is called the nila or نيلة which is a herogliphic word for blue
Does it connected to words the Nile River?
Omg blue is called nila in Urdu as well
How do people get it? Is it like a popular good made in modern factories?
Nila means blue in Indic languages too!
@@tehreemazmat2929 hindi too!
It always so cool to learn about ancient civilisations
These Ancient Egyptians were definitely geniuses.
well, kinda. Despite their nifty engineering, it took them like a thousand years to realize wheels and axles were a thing you could make.
yah. the egyptions were crafty with the knowledge they had but they werent that inventive for an ancient civilization. they made alot of amazing things but not in amazing ways. the greeks, persians, and ancient chinese have way more right being called genious's. egypt was way more concerned with art and religion that inventing things.
McGraw Nelson but they pretty much were geniouses though...
imissmyoldchannel thats true
McGraw Nelson dumb fool. The egyptians werr great at astronomy and mathmatics and infrastructure building. It took great minds to build the pyramid of giza. The ancient egyptian were ancient to the Romans as the Romans are ti us. They were defo geniuses.
Great video! I work in the field, and other than calling the synthetic pigment 'artificial', everything was well presented.
It is amazing that we are still rediscovering ancient technology that was lost to history.
finally my countless hours in Minecraft are useful.
Fitting that the word "chemistry" comes from an old word for Egypt: al Khemet. :-)
Janis Cortese And alchemy?
Sounds like alchemy
It is -- both words come from the same source in the end.
And Khem was an Egyptian creator God. He was also the god of reproduction. Chemists, of course, can produce new and different things by mixing things together, as did the ancient priests of Khem. It's just that the current ones understand more about what they were doing, and how and why they got it.
I found a new respect for Ancient Egyptians
I love ancient Egypt!
listening to you helps me focus, somehow even though it has nothing to do with my work
I like how you describe stuff. Good man !
I love this show.
This video blue me away.
If you haven't seen the Vsauce video "invention of blue" do yourself a favor and watch it, possibly the best Vsauce video ever (that's saying something)
Spoiler alert: rainbows didn't change colours throughout the years.
Eh, it's really good, but it's not the best. Vsauce (1) has the best videos. But Keven (Vsauce2) has been having a lot of really interesting videos in the past year, including that one.
Is that one of those videos showing up with a dollar cost attached to them? I just ignore them personally.
yeah it's same channel but those paid video series from youtube red aren't worth it.
I disagree... that video was one of the worst IMO. It didn't teach me anything, the title was misleading, the contents wasn't interesting. Vsauce has many fantastic videos. Watch those first.
Great content!
Hey can you go over the medical properties of Prussian Blue? I know it can be used in radiation exposure, but i dont know why it works....
Fascinating
@scishow it sounded very mystic when u started talking about it, then i was like aha.. hes talking about "Neal" something we used since ever and are still using it to this day .. its very common herein the Arab world and its just as unimportant as the abundant silica in our deserts
Michael is the best SciShow host.
If it emits IR with visible light. Makes me wonder if you used it as a paint for the exterior of buildings that are in cold climate, could it reduce the cost of heating? I realize that it would only work if at all, on a large scale.
Just saw a video earlier today about REAL indigo, now this.
🎶I just freeze
Every time you see through me
And it's all over you
Egyptian blue 🎶
Love you guys. ❤️
Great topic!
But wouldn't it be mildly toxic? I know that both insoluble copper salts (i.e. basic copper carbonate, one of the ingredients for this pigment) and soluble copper salts (i.e. copper sulfate) can have damaging effects at doses as low as 100mg
Dragos Merisca I don't think so because people are still using it to dye their hair and hands (in fuenrals)
Dragos Merisca also didn't it say it gives off UV radiation when exposed to sunlight(I assume due to refraction) would that give you cancer after a while?
Got an idea for a story, why flame broiling tastes better than frying.
lapis lazuli this rock was or is only available in today's Afghanistan. Egyption also used it on Tutankhamun's coffin for example eyebrows and around eye and the head of a Serpent.
And the north of Chile
"SHINED"?? I thought the past tense of "shine" was "shone".
huangec both
both are correct, but some people say that "shone" should be used when there isn't an object and "shined" when there is. So you'd say "he shined a light in my eyes" or "the light shone". As with many English grammar rules there ins't a strict definition of when either is correct though. Personally I think "shone" sounds really weird and never use it, and i never hear anyone use it in the PNW where i live.
I thought they used lapis for all of that, including their eye shadow. It makes sense that they would come up with something else, though. Considering how relatively rare lapis was. And it's toxic, too. (Not something I'd want on my skin)
I'm fascinated by stories of rediscovery, for the most part no matter what it is. I'm sure there are some things we don't really need to rediscover.
This makes me feel good.
Just how clever were the Egyptians?
They were not Egyptians they were pharaoh they original from sudan they were black, Egyptians not black..Egyptians even do not know how pyramids were built...
@@discovergermany5431 sudan was a part of Egypt
Awesome
Akasame yes it is 👍
Someday in the far future scientists will rediscover fidget spinners and use them to treat cancer.
In a similar theme, could you do a report on Rose Bengal, ? which is another dye used in medicine, even being researched to treat some cancers,
So what you’re saying is ancient Egypt was blue da bu dee da bu dye?
Nah mane they wuz kangs
Lapis lazuli jewelry is so nice!
Im blue da ba de da ba do
kitty cat DA ba de dabe DA dabe de dabe DA
if i was green i would die
Da bö die da bö dai
Lapis Lazuli is used in some skincare products I have and use. Does it provide any benefits to skin health?
Egyptian blue sunscreen is next
My son, Julius (who is 3 weeks old), would like to know why (or if?) lullabies help babies to sleep.
He and I often watch sci-show together at 4am while I'm up feeding him. Thanks to this show, I'm well equipped to answer his questions about why the sky is blue, and why people have hair around their anus. But I don't know what to tell him about lullabies and babies sleeping. Should I switch off sci-show, and put on a lullaby, when he's done eating and should be going back to sleep? Or is the idea that babies sleep better with lullabies nothing more than a placebo?
Thanks, on behalf of a very curious 3 week old.
Egypt was way more advanced than you think. This does definitely have to do with medical imaging. Biometrics. It's cryptic meaning. Thoth is blue.
blue is my favorite color
I'm Egyptian Blue da ba dee da ba dai...
azurite ( stone of heaven or the forbidden stone ) i got some of them and they are very powerful if used in yoga and meditation
"Emits infrared..." is that pigment fluorescent ?
one time i found lapis lazuli in minecraft
Vetruvius was one smart cookie
40 centuries ago: We're making some badass blue dye, from a recipe hard to figure out that deliver a very consistent shade of blue through some very complex chemical mixture and extenuous heating;
Today: Earth is flat.
I guess there will be a new song: Paint like an Egyptian?
I'm Blue da di di da da da
Lol scishow, that pic of the tomb featured at 0:21 is actually the tomb of one of the workers who helped make the pharoah's tomb, not one of the pharaohs tombs :p I think the guys name was Pashedu or something like that
Does that mean that if you were in close proximity to it for a long time you would get tanned or a sunburn?
My favorite color
Is there an air temperature at which a fire can't be made and sustained using conventional methods? Is it still possible to build a fire at the coldest possible temperature on earth?
Not related
We attribute the non-falling of electrons in the atomic nucleus to the HEISENBERG UNCERTAININTY PRINCIPLE .What is wrong in applying the same to quarks and say that they can't exist in the nucleus (but they do)?
Nothing at all becuz Momentum-position uncertainty is actually from time-frequency uncertainty that existed before the Big Bang.
Lapis lazuli, a.k.a. Smurf stone. 😎
Ancient people were smarter than we give credit for
Is it similar to the samurai indigo blue? Just saw Mike Chen talk about it
I'm blue if I'm green I will die
no way.. that was the song I was playing before this video
that is the lyric?? i always heard it as "i'm blue, i'm a dee and dubai"
JustACrazyCollector❤ its actually da ba dee da ba daa
Its im blue da ba dee da ba die
I always thought he was saying "I'm in need of a guy."
Hathor was Blue, the same reason Krishna was blue - serotonin is increased by blue light and serotonin opens the third eye pineal gland seen internally as blue light - and so blue light is the color of the lunar psychic energy of Hathor.
So I came here after watching "Why the ancient Greeks couldn't see blue" video and the blue falling out of popularity part got me thinking that it's probably because it was so uncommon to majority of the tribes/community at that time, that they probably didnt pay any mind to it.
Nice and dandy, but is emitting IR really such a big deal? There are countless other materials that have this property. Converting from higher to lower energy radiation is rather normal.
If it was the other way around it would be really interesting - there is a lot of research going on trying to convert IR or other lower-energy radiation into visible light.
Lapis lazuli ;)
She took the barn
BEST STEVEN UNIVERSE WAIFU
Bleeding Edge thats a weird way spell blue pearl :P
But she's Lapis
I don’t get it
Didn’t they used to grind up a certain beetle to obtain a blue dye?
Curious how you came up with this topic
*Aliens*
@Lawrence
it's a meme fam
I actually make ultramarine pigment when I get bored sometimes lol. Idk why, it's something to do I suppose. I don't use it for anything, so it's not that I have a reason to. Lol
I'm just here because of Selena's song *Souvenier" to know aboit Egyptian Blue..
Hey Ottists! If you want some Egyptian Blue paint, look for pigment PB-31.
This story Blue my mind. ;)
Is it better than the colour black for hearing up? For example if you had 2 boxes with a sheet if glass over them in the sun 1 with this blue and 1 with a black which would heat up the best? Just a thought.
Suppose to say heating up not hearing up...
1:58 what if the calcium contained lemons instead?
Is it wrong to say the past tense of shine is "shone on"? instead of shined on?
Hey! I did my masters degree on this kind of stuff!
Very facinating because my favorite color is BLUE! Even though I'm a girl.
Now it's only in ancient ruins and you can detect everywhere it was once used. But if it gets used in currency then it will be everywhere and we will lose the ability to detect its ancient use.
Well done and great information.
However, a recommendation to the director and producer. The jumps that you make towards the talent are not good. You might think that it keeps the energy going. Instead, it is distracting and breaks the viewers train of thought. Just like it is good to take one's time and savor a bite of food, so too it is good to allow the scene to play out.
man how could blue lose popularity i mean how could you paint the sky or imitate your enemy's tears?
and this is why crystallology is bous and people should focus on the actual properties of minerals teached by minerology.
Sometimes I entertain the thought of ancient people that have nothing better to do and accidentally discover something, by doing whatever. I mean, "hey let's see what I will get if I heat these sands in the furnace!" or "hey lets cook this food using oil processed from palm trees lol!". Even "hey, lets try riding horse to battle". They must seem like madman at the time.
lapis lazuli lets u enchant... so like.. screw the artificial stuff
Be WARNED. People will say ALIENS are to blame..
Well yeah, it was the Goul'd
Wasn’t that the same stone used by the people of Atlantis and Sumer?
How can we become taller
The Nile was not blue, dude. Just like all rivers, it was some shade of brown... except when it turned red that one time ;)
Or the White Nile and the Blue Nile, the tributaries so named because one is more silty, and the other is less silty.
KungFuBlitzKrieg
That's like saying the sky isn't blue.
It's all down to perspective and perception.
The Nile wasn't blue. It was clear. Water is clear after all.
Light filters through water really well, but gradually. Light doesn't fade in one go. First the red part of the spectrum fades, then the orange, then yellow and so on till you're only left with blue to be filtered out. This all happens within the first few meters down from the surface.
That's why shallower waters tend to look more green (the water isn't deep enough to filter out green yet) and deeper waters look blue. Blue light travels considerably further.
Other factors like algae growth and Cyanobacteria and stuff affect this too.
There's a lot more blue light in water than any other colour, so we perceive it as being blue.
This is also why we perceive the sky as blue. The earths atmosphere filters light too. But air is clear.
The sun is white, yet looks yellow/orange because a lot of the red spectrum has already been filtered out through our atmosphere.
You can even test this at home. If you have a white fluorescent light on the ceiling, take the cover off so you can see the actual tube. Lay on the floor and blow cigarette smoke toward the light. It's subtle, but the smoke often takes on a blue shade if the cloud is thick enough.
Or bill nile the science guy.
How can our voice become more deeper
I thought blue was the least important color since it was named last in most of all languages?
Nobody:
History channel: Ancient alien theorists say yes
I bed the Egyptians has no ideas that this substance has this much uses in the future
I thought this was going to be about the pigment made from mummies.
Yo Michael, you should dye your hair again, it looked cool like that!
Alot of this blue adorned Princess Ahmanet in The Mummy?
No comments about his moustache, earrings, or other physical appearance? Oh wait, I remember. We're only allowed to pick on Olivia for that. :/
I have a nerd crush on Michael.
I got them healthy blues...
Can we cure our eyes of myopia
Is there a way so that we can be smarter and more intelligent