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???? Subscribe to the channel: https://t.ly/Ae5k Support us: On Boosty (Russian card): https://boosty.to/osnovachannel On Patreon (foreign card): / osnovachannel In this episode, Egyptologist Victor Solkin tells detective stories about the theft of Egyptian masterpieces and sphinxes, religion and alcohol of ancient Egypt, the attitude towards Mummies and the wonders of science. The episode is fire, I warn you. Victor Solkin's YouTube channel: / @victorsolkin OSNOVA on social networks: Osnova. Briefly: / @osnovashorts VK: https://vk.com/osnovachannel Zen: https://dzen.ru/osnovachannel TikTok: / osnovachannel Instagram*: / osnovachannel 0:00 - "Aren't they aliens?" Today we will talk about Ancient Egypt 0:35 - Why are there still gaps in the history of Ancient Egypt? To what extent are modern Egyptians descendants of the ancient Egyptians? 4:30 - Is Ancient Egypt the most ancient civilization on Earth? 5:50 - How long did the ancient Egyptian civilization exist? 7:25 - What did the ancient Egyptian language look like and sound like? Is it a dead language? 9:41 - How was the language of Ancient Egypt deciphered? 15:38 - What kind of beer did the Egyptians drink? 18:03 - Life in Ancient Egypt. Drunken officials and love lyrics 22:35 - The most interesting eras of Ancient Egypt 24:09 - "There were no baths in Egypt." And what was the situation with hygiene, perfumery and medicine in Egypt? 26:01 - About the ancient Egyptian religion. What is it about? Why do deities look the way they do and why are there so many of them? 30:49 - "There was no hell." What was the afterlife like for the Egyptians? 34:32 - Did the religion of Ancient Egypt influence modern religions? 36:47 - "4 million mummies of sacred animals." About sacred animals and love for cats 41:30 - "Borderline animals." Anubis and jackals 43:10 - Why were animal mummies made? And other mysteries of the funeral cult 46:57 - Imhotep. Who is he? Why was he so significant? 48:27 - Mummies. Why were people buried like this? How were they preserved? 51:36 - The incredible preservation of mummies. How was this technology developed? How complex was it? 53:54 - "Lunch with the unswaddling of an ancient Egyptian." What was in the "cocoons" of mummies? 56:04 - Why can't you unwrap a mummy? 59:11 - Pyramids. Why were they built? What were they like? 1:01:44 - The first pyramid. What's underneath it? 1:03:44 - The internal structure of the pyramids. What were they built from? What was done inside? 1:04:36 - "The Pyramid Texts". Magical texts and the king's requests to meet the gods 1:05:48 - How were the pyramids robbed? 1:08:36 - "There were no traps in the pyramids." HOW THAT? 1:10:39 - Are there any ancient Egyptian tombs left untouched? 1:11:25 - The incredible story of the discovery of a secret tomb 1:15:20 - Science in Ancient Egypt. Did they study astronomy and believe that the Earth was round? 1:19:30 - "Religion greatly encouraged science." On the education of the Egyptians 1:23:03 - How were Egyptian treasures taken away? Who stole the bust of Nefertiti and who brought the Sphinxes to St. Petersburg? 1:28:04 - Egyptology in Egypt. How are the remaining treasures preserved? 1:29:59 - Back to the bust of Nefertiti. How was it taken away? 1:33:44 - How did ancient Egyptian sculptors work? 1:37:18 - Thanks for watching! *recognized as extremist and blocked in the Russian Federation as a Meta product ** **recognized as an extremist organization