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otackle72 t1_jdsg9en wrote

You have to practice on something I guess

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sfzombie13 t1_jdsq0vh wrote

must be a stock picture. either that or they have different definitions of words like skulls and mummies. those are skulls, not mummies.

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ZDTreefur t1_jdstzn6 wrote

How are we still finding significant and large things like this?

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johnn48 t1_jdswkj9 wrote

Replying to sfzombie13 (#2,378,296)

I was wondering what the difference was between mummified sheep heads and skulls, cause those looked like normal sheep skulls. Then I thought perhaps my phone wasn’t able to discern enough details to make the mummification visible.

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paulyester t1_jdsx2mf wrote

Replying to ZDTreefur (#2,378,865)

Everything slowly gets covered by sand and soil. Now we have new technology such as LiDAR aerial imagery to mass scan giant tracks of land from a plane. There have been many discoveries made by people simply zooming into google earth and noticing a building footprint lol.

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cargo_run_rust OP t1_jdt68cq wrote

Replying to ZDTreefur (#2,378,865)

There is recent funding to excavate more places, like it was not available before.

Egypt is full of mystery and history, and as long as the projects are well funded new discoveries will be happening.

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Kapalaka t1_jdt9bsc wrote

Honestly, seeing it all laid out like that is so beautiful. There is something hauntingly beautiful about it.

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WaycoKid1129 t1_jdtpfpu wrote

“And I want all sheep heads in the kingdom next to me.” -rich dead guy

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Orion14159 t1_jdtpodk wrote

What if these were for a cookout and they just forgot them?

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Clean-Parsley-5739 t1_jdttnut wrote

Replying to DontBeADramaLlama (#2,377,897)

Herodotus had this to say of Egypt in book 2 chapter 67 of his histories
Dead cats are taken away to sacred buildings in the town of Bubastis, where they are embalmed and buried; female dogs are buried by the townsfolk in their own towns in sacred coffins; and the like is done with mongooses. Shrewmice and hawks are taken away to Buto, ibises to the city of Hermes. 2.67.2 There are few bears, and the wolves are little bigger than foxes; both these are buried wherever they are found lying.

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vee_lan_cleef t1_jdttxfl wrote

Replying to ZDTreefur (#2,378,865)

Read about Saqqara or watch the recent documentary about it if you want to see some of the most recent large discoveries. It is likely there are many more significant tombs that have yet to be discovered.

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yubioh t1_jdtu240 wrote

I wonder if the mummification service was by subscription plan, and your animal package was part of the premium

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DATY4944 t1_jdu2lnx wrote

I had no idea sheep had some mental horns.

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cargo_run_rust OP t1_jdu5kx7 wrote

Replying to Clean-Parsley-5739 (#2,383,921)

>Dead cats are taken away to sacred buildings in the town of Bubastis, where they are embalmed and buried; female dogs are buried by the townsfolk in their own towns in sacred coffins; and the like is done with mongooses. Shrewmice and hawks are take

Interesting. Never knew about Bubastis when I visited Egypt. Thought that Serapeum of Saqqara was the largets animal tomb,.
Did Herodotus mention why this was done?

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Bennehftw t1_jdu9cer wrote

Why couldn’t they be dry aged lamb chops instead.

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Some_Intention t1_jduaohm wrote

Replying to DaddyCatALSO (#2,385,096)

Mummies were so common they were used to make paint. The last of it being made in the 60s-ish with the owner of the company saying "I might have an arm or a leg around here to make a little more, but I'm out of supplies".

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kynthrus t1_jdub39q wrote

How do we know this is a temple and not like a medical school? Where the sheep were used for practice/research?

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[deleted] t1_jdudo80 wrote

Replying to 4chams (#2,380,162)

This, imagine what we will find if they let archaeologists dig near the sphinx and the great pyramid. I went to hercolaneum years ago and they have mapped an entire city with lidar but they cannot dig it up because of the houses built on top of it.

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Hushwater t1_jdulmar wrote

If an important figure requested to be buried with two thousand heads of sheep, if I was the mummists it would be easier to mummify literally just the heads. Imagine in the afterlife they are sitting there with 2000 sheep heads and just face palm because they took the instruction literally. Joking of coarse, I have the utmost respect for ancient culture.

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NotDiCaprio t1_jduy4df wrote

Who counted 2000 sheep without falling asleep?

That's mind-blowingly impressive.

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5orangelemons t1_jdv7lku wrote

We found a 4,000 year old, 16 foot thick walled temple. We found papyrus in it. Here's a picture of sheep heads? Nothing has been translated, I guess? I'd love to learn as much context as possible.

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Bick7198Dutt t1_jdvlt2k wrote

I wonder if there's a mummified sheep dog? If there is the doggo did a great job keeping them in one spot for so long!

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crunchyfrog555 t1_je16h09 wrote

Not really. We are ON the ground, so mapping it out isn't that hard. We knew for hundreds of years about putting an iron pin in water gave us a compass, so mapping using that alone is relatively easy.

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