Top 10 HORRIFYING Facts About ANCIENT EGYPT
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- Ancient Egypt is one of the most fascinating places in the historical record. Their obsession with life after death, their grand pyramids and golden treasures, and the multitudes of evidence they left behind of their great works have captured the imaginations of people for thousands of years. However, underneath the veneer of mysticism and historical grandeur, Ancient Egypt was not always the most fun place in the world to live. Their justice system was often unfair and cruel, some of their medical practices were horrifying, and their devotion to the gods often went to insane lengths.
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10. An Outbreak Of Cholera Was Once Linked To Food Wrapping Paper Made From Mummy Bandages
9. Servants Were Sometimes Put To Death To Be Buried Alongside Their Masters
8. Mummy Used To Commonly Be Eaten As A Medicine In Europe
7. If You Disrespected The Sun God They Would Immolate Your Entire Being
6. It Was Extremely Common For Ancient Egyptian Police To Beat Confessions Out Of People
5. If You Violated The Law, You Were Considered Guilty Until Proven Innocent
4. Sometimes If You Were Accused Of A Crime, Your Guilt Would Be Decided By The Magic Of Oracles
3. Using Birth Control Was An Incredibly Disgusting Horror Show
2. The Death Penalty In Ancient Egypt Was Rare, But Extremely Brutal When Enacted
1. The Legends Of Ancient Egyptian Curses Simply Will Not Go Away
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A mummy unwrapping party... Sounds like a good way to get cursed...
And Ouija board/demon stories
they do curse if u disrespect but if u do it for the understand for how they live they dont mind i think
Brennan angrove I never said that. I don't believe in religion. Besides, if it was real, why would it be sold as a toy for children?
that y i say lol i respect peolpe like u and + world right belive what you want
urmaker 😆😆
could you imagine being a slave or 'servant' and thinking "well atleast in death I'll be free" ... then the bad news comes
jennifer b.awesome janbel or jazbel will soom face that you
Yes, but Egyptian slavery and servitude was not the same as what we imagine today, as slaves were often treated as part of a household, and evidence is being uncovered that most servents were devoted to those they served. Not that there weren't bad masters of course.
wonder how many people were killed in the ancient world because they complained about it being to hot or something
darragh o halloran
Lol. I'd been first to go.
I wonder how many complained about being tortured?
Damn we talkin all Humanoids? Billions.
They weren't that brutal.
Farraige actually the climate in ancient Egypt was way different 3,000 years ago it was lush green and liken more to Florida everglades temperature
I think Egyptian police still beat confessions out of people.
Goodiesfanful that is absolutely true 😁
They're probably a LOT better at beating confessions out of people. Practice, baby. Practice!
Most countries do beat confessions out of people. Lmao! If I remember correctly, America is the only one that doesn't. The American Police don't do it out in public, even when the criminal deserves it, because of the PC and Race Card Playing crowds.
Goodiesfanful Yes they still do. You are probably still guilty until proven otherwise.
faster than you can say "police brutality"
Narrator: “ it was extremely common for people to crush up human remains and eat them”
Me: huh.
Now do top ten horrifying atrocities of the British empire.
that might prove too severe for public viewing!
ItsMeKarl Scorpio make that Europe in general
Europe, Asia, Africa, the America's literally no society in History is exempt from causing atrocities.
I really don't think we do, and this Hyperbole is simply rediculous. Pick up a History book once in a while, wwe are far from perfect, but um yeah the worst no.
1830s forcing Chinese to permit opium trade into china.
The crocodile dung and honey one is false. Egyptologists discovered writing including that "recipe" in what they now realize was their equivalent of an adult humour magazine. Yeah, it's actually a 3000 year old JOKE.
Melissa Treglia can you leave a source
Agreed, a source would b nice
yep ancient equivalent to The Shovel
Melissa Treglia yes i also want to know this ancient joke
Exactly as old as the Doge meme
Ive always had a fascination about Egypt....So many mysteries, and the knowledge they had is remarkable.
"the sun god" was called Ra
arte0021 Ra in my language=fuck
Sally What language?
arte0021 ra is barck maybe or barrack
arte0021 I know that cuz I am Anubis!! Ha ha just joking 🙃 .
I also refuse to take french lessons from you!!!
I’m Egyptian!!! And I’m proud of being creepy!!!
I’m Fijian!!! And I’m proud to know that my people used to be cannibals!!!😁😁😁
Rock on, Egyptians!😊
Im American, and I love the creaminess 👍
Lmao 🤣
LMFAO I LOVE UR ATTITUDE
It's still common for police to beat confessions out of people
n bo it should be
@@teddyfresh9605 yes, yes it is
@WhoDey! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
@WhoDey! You have cameras....except when you are in the police station, and police take everything from you before your "trial."
hi toptenz. i love your videos.
2017 is gonna suck but at least I can look forward to roasts like these.
Thats surprisingly not very horrifying, Egypt was pretty civilized for their time
chizoioioi thank you.
@@renea1221 why are you saying thank you? Lmao You weren't part of that civilization...
yeah
Thank you. Today, I learned that immolate means to sacrifice, usually by burning.
I am always trying to improve my vocabulary and I appreciate your use of a word that I didn't know.
You seem like a person who isnt irascible at all
they stopped killing their sevents for the afterlife after the old kingdom.
How about ten horrifying facts about modern Egypt.
lmfao once messed up always messed up but hey they were and still are very intelligent people
There has always been 2 parts of history I have always loved hearing about .The The Roaring Twenties and ancient Egyptian people . And how advanced they were in some ways , and another it was almost like they were superstitious .
Ancient Egyptians were also truly amazing, even though this video was very interesting you guys should tr making a video about how incredible these people were. If you look at all the amazing feats they managed to do you'll find some really interesting things, especially in their archaeology. So please make us a video on what they managed to do, I think people don't really realize how advanced their practices were unless they've actually seen them for themselves, so I think that would be really interesting. And thanks for the videos they're great, please consider making a video. Thanks.
Enjoyed! TYVM!
Beating confession is still widely used in modern day..
Js
I'm from egypt luxor city i saw the pyramids and the temples
cool
Obviously .
of all the horrifying things the incest didn't even rank? King Tut married one of his half sisters and that was pretty common.
Tanjiandfriends it was pretty common in lots of civilizations. If someone told you your whole life that something was normal most wouldn't see it any differently. Its disgusting now because a.) We have science showing how inbreeding causes birth defects and b.) Its been hammered in since birth that its disgusting
Tanjiandfriends compared to being burned alive and the fact that was common and not unusual for thousands upon thousands of years, I say that that isn't bad at all.
For real ! That was just some Nasty stuff ! Mom & Dad marry sons & daughters , cousins , nieces, nephews, aunts , uncles, brothers and sisters, everyone of them Mofos was just plain Nasty !!!
uta senpai research the Ptolemy period it’s a lot worse.
They believed in keeping the kingdom in the family . Unfortunately for them & their offspring , they knew little about genetic defects of incest .
I just seen this for the first time and I can't tell you how unprepared I was to hear Simon say "baby gravy" trying to keep a straight-ish face at 6 am. I am currently making a new cup of coffee as I just spit most of mine out. 😂😂😂
Thank you; interesting stuff.
#6, in ancient and modern Egypt. There is a torture room in every police station.
Egyptians were the first to use papyrus paper right ?
yes :)
Now we kill MILLIONS in war and genocide, shoot kill and imprison unjustly based on race and class, while corporate greed TRUMPs the environment we are destroying and ALTERNATIVE FACTS justify any proclamation or executive action as political powers capitulate to the courrupt 'priesthood' of the HYPOCRITICAL religious WRONG, while we have modern morality, SCIENCE and FREE PRESS teaching us BETTER as those in power gleefully ignore what they don't want to hear... That's 3,000 years of progress??
**bows** Lord Aizen, I will serve you for all eternity **Dies for serving Lord Aizen**
Sōsukè Aizen Aizen-sama!!
Yup!
This video has the nerve to play happy up-beat music while explaining the most disturbing stuff done in the ancient world
That's realy cool i love facts about scary videos.😀😀😀
Assassins Creed Origins brought me here.
Reed Tardio bro same 😂
I can never get over the way you pronounce "condom" makes me laugh everytime!
Based on various sources I have come across over the years, I was indeed a custom for servants to follow the king or queen into death. It wasn't just Egypt. It went on in other ancient cultures too.
18-year-old Ancient Egyptians can draw better than most 18-year-olds today
The video is about Egypt but he kept referring to Europe. You guys do know that Egypt isn't part of Europe, right? Egypt is in North Africa.
you're talking about ancient Egypt like it was one time period.
Please dont over think, it's just a list
ur vids r always awesome dude I haven't been subbed to long but the time I have been the vids I saw r awesome dude thx for someone finally dropping better vids about the things u show
a lot of interesting video on your channel
Retainer sacrifices occurred only very early in the Old Kingdom, & it's been archaeologically proven that they were phased out by the end of the First Dynasty, being replaced by shabatis, symbolic figures that could 'magically' be brought to life, to serve after death.
Actually, I need to restate: Retainer sacrifices were phased out over the course of the First Dynasty {very early in Egypt's long history- we're talking the Early Dynastic Period, predating even Old Kingdom Egypt- given that there were over 30 Dynasties, this may give you an idea of how long ago we're talking}; this' proven archaeologically, as the numbers/ chambers in the tombs dropped, indicating there were fewer & fewer- & the tomb of the first ruler of the Second Dynasty presented no evidence of retainer sacrifices: *Hor-Aha*, second pharaoh of the First Dynasty had 35 retainer sacrifices in his tomb, & 12 in 3 surrounding tombs enclosed in his funerary complex. *Djer*, his son & successor, had 318 retainer sacrifices in his tomb, & 269 retainer sacrifices buried in enclosures - *Djet* had 174 sacrificed retainers buried around his tomb at Abydos & 62 retainers buried around his tomb at Saqqara.
*King Den*, about 230 individuals - *King Qa'a* helps illustrate the decline of retainer sacrifices, only 30 were sacrificed after his death. High nobles were also participants in retainer sacrifices, but likely experienced the same decline in their perceived necessity as pharaohs themselves did, & probably dispensed with it earlier; also, the people buried in King Aha’s complex were not just lowly servants, but were also rich nobles, so it wasn't merely about sacrificing a bunch of slaves. Also, the narrator keeps saying '*late* in Egyptian civilisation'- that is patently wrong.
Why did they unwrap mummies? No one dug your ancestors up! Jeez, let the ancients rest in peace in people! I'm fine with the mummies being in museums because that way, not only are they forevermore preserved, but their treasures won't be stolen by greedy tomb robbers.
How were people supposed to learn about them when CAT scans weren't invented yet?
the museums were the tomb robbers. The unwrapping parties were not just for scientific discovery. They were for entertainment and destroyed much of the heritage of Egypt. They also used to burn the mummies as a substitute for coal.
GREAT VIDEO...................
The world nowadays is more horrifying.
your right the World has not changed still violence all over the World
Dan Calvano no it’s snot!
This sounds more like horrifying things Europeans did with mummies
Highkey ARMY yes
great video
Actually even if we assume there were no true signs from the gods, most Egyptains believed enough that movements of the light could be interpreted as signs, and most priests likely believed they were given subtle hints by the gods themselves.
they weren't subtle the gods make obvious hints
i need subtitles...its too fast..
TopTenz
Throwing that shade, lmao,damn
Slow it down on your phone or comp settings. It's pretty easy.
ebencipe to me it was to slow, to much facts
ebencipe the words run together.
BAR HEAD GENIUS
it's perfectly normal for police in Bangladesh to beat a confession out of just about anyone who may or may not be involved.....
That's quite pragmatic way to solve a crime. Kudos for their ingenuity.
By saying that it is "normal", you are actually condoning that sort of behaviour.
Digging the outfit today! Might low-key steal your style lol
This will help me with my home work!
If you think about it. Egyptians were the first form of furries
The gods maybe but not the people themselves
LoverWitch well the people were the ones doing the art and such so they were the original inkbunny/whatever furry art site there is
They were not furries stupid weirdo. Stop disrespecting my ancestors.
Molly Barksdale someone can't take a joke lol
Stop playing.
Well number 10 and 8 didn't really have to do with ancient Egypt it was a US/European thing that just happened to use bodies of ancient egyptians so it's not like it's a horrifying fact about them rather than the western world.
Not horrifying but quite interesting thank you. 🖒🖒🖒.
Through out their long history, the Ancient Egyptians did not sacrifice servants when the king died, as this video asserts. This only happened during a few of the pre dynastic kingdoms. The practice was quickly stopped at the start of dynastic Egypt.
Being beaten for an admission of crime is not surprising at all. Lots of countries around the world still do it now in 2017.
Proud to be Egyptian!
the people living in Egypt today aren't the ones from ancient times, both the Greeks and Romans invaded before finally Muhammed did with an arab army.
jak stop being idiot. and learn history
Moataz Alzhree then please explain it to me what i am missing in this? the Persian empire removed the last Native Egyptian Pharaoh, they occupied the land until Alexandra the Great invaded and conquered. Then declared himself as pharaoh and reinstated old Egyptian culture and his line ruled until the Roman empire took over which adopted some of the old customs such mummification and the worship of the old gods. its after all this we get to the Prophet Mohammed who did way with the many gods and old culture to replace is with islam. also all the modern Egyptian last names today have their roots in tribes from Saudi Arabia which is not African of Egyptian.
so what am i missing from this history?
According to 23 and me, I'm 27% North African and yes, 4% Middle Eastern because of Arab invasion in the country (the rest of my ancestry is European and Sub-Saharan African). So, in conclusion, at least 20% of my genes are similar to those of Ancient Egyptians and other populations of Northern Africa.
Yasmine Dabash what's Egypt like? I would love to go there :3c
797k subs!!! Looks like you jumped on the top ten train a bit late. lol
0:40 that face wrap is awesome! surprised they are all not like that
4:54 😂😂😂 you can tell Simon has never been arrested in America
Roses are red
Violets are blue
There will always be a mummy horrified of you
Why do people who have never been to Africa and have not studied the culture are the first to educate others on Egypt?
Those attempting to explain or pass judgement upon the ancient Egyptians are on very shaky ground as their entire approach to existence seems to have been vastly different from our own. The great ancient Greek historian, Herodotus, described Egyptians as the happiest people he had ever encountered.
In addition to Europeans eating mummies, mummies were also ground into powder to create oil paints for renaissance artists. I'm an oil painter, and "mummy brown" is one of my favorite colors to use, although now it's (obviously) made with a substitute pigment.
Absolute and utter lies to say that servants were put to death in ancient Egypt. * They were not*. There is an instance where this seems to have happened in pre dynastic times, that is before 3000 BCE, but after that little statues called ushabtis were used to represent servants. The Egyptians had a very moral and ethical society, far better than some of the surrounding countries.
lesley mitchell they are lies except it happend.... got it.
Except that one time, When it happend.
+William Conway The time that it happened was in pre-Dynastic times. Do you know what that is? In other words before ancient Egypt civilisation really got started.
The reason I posted on this is because the narrator made it seem as if it was happening all the time.
I know what that is. If you listened to the doc the narrator said that it only happened once. To say it never happened is like saying slavery never happened in america because it was pre civil war.
lesley mitchell
I love how everyone is a historian and archeologist that knows everything about history just because they have read a lot of books are watched a bunch of history channel, always remember something, your always right even if you only go off of what others have said and were obviously not there. Btw, if your that knowledgble when it comes to history, the last thing you should be wasting your time doing is telling a youtube channel they are wrong.
Please Top 10 Fact About Morocoo ^_^ !! And Thanks For The Vidéo :) !!
I would be proud to be an Egyptian
" Death will come on swift wings to he who violates the tomb of the pharaoh"
Just make a video about the legal system of Ancient Egypt.
Also if you are innocent until proven guilty why are you still kept in prison until after your trials?
It’s sad that this is how we think of an amazing society that gave us many useful inventions. Many other ancient societies did these things yet we single out ancient Egyptians for being the only ones who did this and ignored what they gave us.
Number 9 is a huge overstatement
I'm calling BS on most of this. Apart from random "facts", all un-referenced of course, many of them have nothing to do with ancient Egypt!
im so proud of being Egyptian
Responding to a year old comment BRAVO.
You should be
The contraceptive was probably effective as no one fancied it once applied.
Some of the things that were mentioned are MODERN ERA misuses of Ancient Egyptian artifacts.( using mummy wrappings for paper, munching down of mummy parts, etc ) I would think that an Ancient Egyptian ( barring tomb robbers) would find the idea of unwrapping a mummy particularly stomach turning as well as a way of getting the gods torqued off at ya. .
ancient Egyptians work so hard on these sarcophaguses. just the sheer weight of the lid is telling you this person was idolized and not to be disturbed in afterlife. you're the first thing we do break into the tomb but then some way we can legally plunder these ancient and historical members of ancient Egypt Society we have no respect for anyone or anything that intrigues us. ancient anthrax in other things could be called a curse if ignorant to the fact.
He talks to fast. Damn
he gets his point across though
Listen faster?
Vannisa Salvortare to me hes slow, maybe because its boring
Use captions
5:14 Simon says: “You know they aren’t already assuming guilt...”
Prosecutor: uhhh...
Police: “Oh crap, my body cam was still on!...”
"It was common for ancient Egyptian policemen to beat confessions out of people."
Bayek in fiction VS reality.
Are we really gonna skip over the massacre of Kul Elna? I'll never forget...
Slurm its highly addictive Well mate, when playing card games the memories come flooding back ;)
a part from the video that does not make any sense .
people keep asking about ancient egyptian race in the comments !! as it really makes difference .
this world is really sick .
"Mommy, I don't like granny"
"Well then just eat your chips".
I change my mind about living in ancient Egypt
“Other European societies “ ARE YOU KIDDING ME. No! Our ancestors were centuries ahead of Europeans. They emulated US not the other way around. PLEASE
No one is emulating you. You're not special.
And let's be honest... Anything brown people do whites and Asians do it better.
Maikind K. Yet you commented
Ancient North and East Africans like We Habesha are the real descendants . Asian, Arabs/whites DID NOT MAKE US GREAT. Get your own history.
Konjo Akberet
Loool your ancestors???
You ppl are really Pathetic
Honestly, does race really matter?? They were HUMANS of a GREAT civilization filled with culture, beauty, art and traditions. I honestly can't give a shit wether they're black or white, I came to APPRECIATE and LEARN about them; not question something as unnecessary as the race or skin colour. Smh.
Miyoko Lim Race dose matter... It's very important. I know you're trying to idk be nice and all i guess but... Race is very important because history and much more
Rayutomoto how is race importand? Ancient egypt took place in a time where race wasnt even a thing
AMEN !
Miyoko Lim PREACH! Race is a social construct made relevant by Colonialism and Imperialism.
The Frenchman Stanley Well, politics has no influence in what I'm saying. Race is a social construct, ethnicity however, is based on the factual characteristics of a group of people. Colonialism and Imperialism put social systems in place to favor the ruling class. Thus, the idea of "race" was created as clear divider to distinguish members of society based on what physical characteristics they had. Excluding the cultural, regional, and in depth, the biological (dna) traits that a whole group of people had. To say all Europeans are white would be denying the vast ethnicities ranging across that continent. Same could be said for any continent. Ethnicity contains the biological, cultural, and locational identities of a group of people. Race is based solely on appearance, which is made relevant by society. And I agree if your saying each individual has different aptitudes, but not if your linking aptitude to race.
Also, traditionally, Western society has had only two genders. But different parts of the world, such as India, and Indonesia, have 3 to 5 genders. Gender is also a social construct. Sex, however, isn't, which should be obvious why that is.
4:02 A practice that still goes on today.
I DON'T KNOW WHY, WHEN OR HOW, BUT AM SO FREAKING OBSESSED WITH ANCIENT EGYPT, SINCE I WAS A KID! THERE'S NOT A SINGLE DOCUMENTARY I HAVEN'T SEEN A COUPLE OF TIMES EACH ONE OF THEM
Yes, I am also very interested in them. I am drawn to them like a magnet.
Your definition of 'horrifying' and mine are not even close. Horrifying is John Wayne Gacy burying 33 young men in his crawl space. These facts are interesting and some of them are disturbing and perhaps I'd go as far as to say one or two were creepy. Save your dramatic adjectives for videos that really call for them.
Yup, I'm a part time grammar Nazi. It's a living.
Heather Gray that’s crazy that you brought up John Wayne Gary so long ago and I’m reading these comments and just saw a documentary about him! It just ended and yes it was horrible!
For real hon ! Preach on grammer Nazi ! There was nothing horrifying on the list , just mostly digusting.
Agreed! The most "horrifying" things were what the *Europeans* did to/with the mummies!
Interesting, but how do you know any of this? Where is your proof and sources?
If I went somewhere, then I would, tell or not tell everyone about Thai video that shown everything that were the Egyptian Pharaohs, but how crazy that has already happened in the past.
I love how he says idear instead of idea
So ancient Egypt is the source of the quip," when I want your opinion I will beat it out of you." ?? hmmmm??
Where the hell did you dig up (pun intended) the whopper about cholera and mummy wrappings??????????? I stopped at that, unable to proceed with such nonsense.
The source you quote states unequivocally that the outbreak of cholera was due to water contamination contemporary to the selling of the wrapping, not, as you infer by the clickbait title '10 horrifying facts about Ancient Egypt,' to the somewhat supernatural survival of the cholera bacterium from dynastic Egypt
Why would I need to be 'angry to point out a blatant factoid? In this time and age, it has become extremely important to be able to tell fact from fiction. Your series would benefit immensely from some judicious rewording when such inaccuracies are pointed out to you. Otherwise you really give the impression that 'mummy curses' have somewhat reached down through the centuries, and you don't want to do that now, do you?
I'm reading it. I'm also snowed in and REALLY bored, though.
i read it two months later, does that count?
when people (eg. you) forget the main purpose of this is to stimulate learning. so much anger, no wonder we need wars
Number 6 still happens often in 2019
How can you know violent crime was rare in Ancient Egypt, there are only so many surviving documents? Also the sacrifice of retainers to serve their masters in the afterlife was abolished quite early in Ancient Egyptian history during the Second Dynasty.
7:50 I'm quite certain the mixture was put deep into, not just around...
You said "on the vagina" when it should be "in". The vagina is internal, the vulva external, and they stuck that disgusting mixture inside, not on the outside. I really wish people would learn and use the correct anatomical terminology. Otherwise, that was very informative.
Shifang LOL shut up
Kie Cartwright Theyre right though.
Might not know how they work
Shifang ice
your bald is much more brighter than my future man ! good job
I swam the nile, luv it, me and Cleo. Luv u guys..
I always thought their embalming practices were kind of horrifying to start with!
Jackie LaGeek
seriously!
Jackie LaGeek why your just junk when your dead
the sun gods name is RA
yup
It’s spelled Re
I have nearly drowned, cut myself been stabbed and been burned badly enough to scar; l have no idea why he would say decapitation, drowning or being impaled were nearly as painful as being burned alive. Nothing hurts like burning!
i almost drowned once, and it is actually quite peaceful after the initial panic.
Admitting to a crime you haven't committed is very common today, when the prosecution is hell bent on giving someone 20 year if they are found guilty by a jury of 12 peers but puts a plea deal in front of them that's 2 years suspended w/4 years probation the smart move sometimes is to take it because they don't care how much time a defendant serves it's all about the conviction win