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Nested gold coffins are the picture a host on Estranha História uses to ask why Egyptian workshops spent so much on objects almost nobody living would see. Around a virtual Tutankhamun show, he describes mask, sarcophagi, shrine, and painted walls stacked so that each layer hid the next. A modern budget would have cheapened the interior. The builders put the finest work deepest inside. The divinized dead were meant to see it. The mobile self had to recognize the body in order to come and go, which is why mummies, masks, and chamber statues mattered. Poorer desert graves from the pyramid age existed, he notes, but they leave archaeologists less because they do not last. Herodotus already listed cheap embalming beside the costly kind. Moral judgment of the dead, in his survey, grows later in Egypt and the Levant, while older Mesopotamian scenes send king and criminal to one place and leave the crown outside. Mummified cats can be pets or gifts for a cat-headed goddess.
Key points
- He walks through the nested coffins of Tutankhamun and argues that the finest gold sat where almost no living person would see it.
- The mask and mummy, he says, let the mobile aspect of the person recognize the body and pass in and out.
- Poorer desert burials existed in the pyramid age, he notes, but they leave archaeologists far less because they do not endure.
- He cites Herodotus on three prices of embalming, from an elaborate treatment down to a quick drying with natron.
- Afterlife judgment, in his survey, grows later in Egypt and the Levant, while older Mesopotamian pictures send king and criminal to the same place.
- Mummified cats can be beloved animals or offerings for a cat-headed goddess, and a rodent control idea is only something he remembers from class.
Short quotes
poderia pensar assim ah ninguém vai ver a parte de dentro vamos economizar material vamos economizar talento né
Estranha História, Tombs made for unseen eyes
In English, a modern person would cheapen the hidden interior, but the builders did the opposite. Watch at 2:05
importante que você continue sendo reconhecível mesmo morto daí a importância da Preservação do corpo
Estranha História, Tombs made for unseen eyes
In English, staying recognizable after death is why the body had to be preserved. Watch at 5:22
que resistem muito ao tempo as pessoas mais despossuído de sobrevivência pensando do ponto de vista da arqueologia e da
Estranha História, Tombs made for unseen eyes
In English, poorer graves leave less for archaeologists because those remains do not last. Watch at 8:04
reis chegam no mundo dos mortes eles deixam do lado de fora a sua coroa o seu
Estranha História, Tombs made for unseen eyes
In English, Mesopotamian kings arrive among the dead without crown or scepter. Watch at 10:58
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