Why Did Egyptian Embalmers Keep the Heart but Not the Brain?

Egyptian embalmers pulled a dead man's brain out through his nose, and kept his heart because they thought it did the thinking. But what really went into those jars? Sam walks you through a 2,500-year-old embalming workshop step by step: the three funeral prices, the hook, the salt, the seventy days, and the jars that held a surprise. A 2016 discovery at Saqqara shows resin from Southeast Asia, thousands of kilometers away. Then comes the weirdest part: how Europeans ground mummies into medicine, and Victorian painters made paint from them. 0:00 Brain Through the Nose 0:40 Meet the Master 1:15 A Greek Traveler Takes Notes 1:36 Three Prices for a Funeral 2:22 Step One: The Brain 2:50 Step Two: The Cut 3:28 Step Three: The Cleaning 3:47 Step Four: Seventy Days of Salt 5:34 The Workshop at Saqqara 6:28 Resin From Southeast Asia 7:12 Devil's Advocate 7:29 Mummies as Medicine 8:13 Victorian Mummy Paint 8:32 The Ramesses Passport Myth 9:05 Sam's Verdict Sources: Herodotus, Histories Book 2; the 2016 Saqqara embalming workshop excavation (Philipp Stockhammer and colleagues); Ambroise Pare on mummy medicine. Some dialogue is dramatized from historical records. If you like weird true history, like and subscribe. Sam needs the moral support. #Egypt #Mummy #AncientEgypt #History #Animated #WeirdHistory #Mummification #Archaeology #Saqqara #Embalming #TrueStory #HistoryDocumentary #DidYouKnow #Storytime #AnimatedHistory Music: "Ancient Rite" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Gonna Start" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Thatched Villagers" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Rites" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Impact Prelude" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b... "Thinking Music" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...