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Did Booby Traps Really Exist in Ancient Egyptian Tombs?
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The all-powerful pharaohs of ancient Egypt were frequently buried alongside a literal wealth of fabulous treasure- treasure that, as you can probably imagine, the pharaohs were very keen to protect. So did they actually have significant preventative measures in place to stop anyone from stealing their stuff after they’d gone a little moldy? Well, yes and no, but when it comes to the idea of elaborate booby traps or puzzles as depicted by Hollywood and in games, definitively no.
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I once had a job raiding ancient Egyptian tombs. I also had to recruit other tombraiders, and I'd get a commission for everyone I recruited. I later found out it was a pyramid scheme.
Nice pun :)
😂😂😂
lol
Filing this away for when I finally become a dad :).
You had me. Reading your comment with keen interest... until hahaha. Funny.
When I was a kid in the late 90s I honestly thought that ancient Egypt curses and getting lost in a pyramid would be a much bigger problem in my life
TNH Seriously?
Yes. That...and quicksand.
haha. true. god bless the minds of children.
@@justynefoster3886 I was sure I was going to end up in quicksand at least a half dozen times by now.
Lol 🙂👍👍
I take strange comfort in the fact that people have always been absolute scoundrels. It reassures me about the basic order of the universe.
Scoundrels indeed sir! Blackguards, vagabonds and incorrigible dastardly scamps and rascals, who lay with trollops and wenches and strumpets, don't you know! Shocking good sir, shocking. M'lady would ne'er be amused by such deeds.
Yep we're all wild animals that's why we still have humans in cages. Some people just cannot be humans
@@GAMESTERVISION what does it mean to be human
FFS the shitty kings were robbed who gives a fuck you are dead its meaningless just like everything will be gone eventually
being human means survival and whatever that takes
you need to snap out that fake world you live in
you are the one that isnt human if you think otherwise
and people are in cages do to other people who think they are better put them there
FFS you and them are not correct you can never put 1 man over another its stupid simple
Scarlett How Nier: Automata Tells the Ultimate Humanist Fable. Watch it.
:)
I always thought a snake room in an ancient tomb was stupid. Are the snakes thousands of years old, does someone with intricate knowledge of the snake room go and fill it every year?
Hollywood takes great liberties in movies...
@Daniel Southerland The monster's name is Adam Frankenstein, therefore calling him by his last name would not be improper ;)
Yes. They are the same people that resupply the tomb with lit touches as seen in the TV shows and movies.
Not quite certain but I believe in the novel version of _Raiders of the Lost Ark_ it was said the snakes crawled into the tomb thru a hidden passage to the outside. That was how Indy and Marion got out when he tipped that stone pillar through that wall of mummies.
It's called suspension of disbelief, if the story is entertaining enough you don't mind or don't notice the logical inconsistencies, you just go along for the ride.
Bernard Gilbert . The film made it see that way too. Do people really think that action adventure films need to be historically accurate?
What you could do is study the snakes then create a habitat room. Maybe adjust it that it's a perfect place to lay eggs and whatnot. Therefore the snakes would naturally occour in your room. Then you build the tomb so that this room is in the way. And there you have it, your self-sustaining snake pit.
Huh, the fact that those eleaborate booby traps didn't exist wasn't a surprise but I never would have guessed they would have treated the tombs of their ancestors like that, they're always portrayed to have a incredibly high sense of reverence and religiosity, that was a shock.
Lassi Kinnunen While there were tombs back then that they perhaps pilfered that were as old as Viking tombs are to us today, Viking religion and culture is long dead, they were still heavily surrounded by the same religious traditions and culture, which was inevitably stronger than most peoples religiosity and culture in the modern world with the current ease of travel and accessibility of information. This video also made it seem like the tombs they pillaged weren’t necessarily much older than their own. That said I get your point, people haven’t changed that much and grave robbing was apparently a big part of the culture. It’s just jarring cause all the modern portrayals of ancient Egyptians would have you think pharaohs would never participate in such sacrilege.
@Anonymous AnonymousYou think no-one thoght to send a drone in or use some other method of disarming some possible trap? Traps only get you when you don't know they are there. No trap is beyond engineering a way out.
The traps probably did exist what are they worth sprung by Tomb robbers long ago.
The biggest tomb robbers were probably the priesthood. they know where all the drones War era and they accepted money from the deceased's family to protect the tool from the robbers for a limited time. When the time was up the priesthood knew where the tomb was and had no incentive to protect it.
Ever heard of Catholic holy relics? They literally took parts and bits of skin or hair, etc... of saints. They are even classed into three classes.
The first class includes anything basically from the saints body such as flesh, bone, hair, limbs, heads, etc... The second class includes anything owned by a saint and the third class includes anything touched or blessed by a saint.
Hell of a way to monetize a religion.
@Anonymous Anonymous there are no traps, it is just to stop people going in. Mercury was said to decorate the floor which was shaped like a map of the world, mercury being water. Mercury had "magic" properties of dissolving gold, and was extremely rich. There was a large enough amount of quicksilver ore in china though. Also wasn't that emperor the barmy immortality seeking one who ate mercury? Seems fitting. Chinese don't care about historical truth though. Every emperor burned the books of the last and made up history. Now the communist government does the same.
"we went to rob the tombs, as it was our usual habit"
Well, quite the stand up guys, there. Sounds like a Spanish picaresque novel.
Spain: land of mercenaries and pirates, y'arr!
Jorge Amado Soria Ramírez did you know the reason mummies are so rare is because people used to eat them
Yeah, and also "we took our copper tools..." and "taking lighted candles in our hand...". These all sound like a modern idiot trying to write an "exciting" story about thieves in the mystified past.
Blair White is a booby trap.
Never mind the curses, boys, just a bit of old stuff to shift ... Does Spain have an equivalent of Terry and Arthur in Minder?
Very informative. I appreciate all of the hard work everyone does in these vids.
Karl Smallwood from Factfiend writes Alot of these check him out
@@dawickedj Oh wow........for real????????? Thank you very much!!!!
agreed 🤗
I did not expect Karl to comment 😂
I like boobies
How does this man make 3 videos a day on 3 different channels? Simon is awesome im glad he has so many subscribers but definitely deserves more
Simon has been cloned! 😀
He has a few writers and editors, I believe. It’s not so much work when it’s divvied out among a talented team. Simon certainly is good at presenting the information in an interesting and engaging way, though.
Read what @@Pacothehamster said.
Well that's his job
@@Pacothehamster shut up it's just magic!
What about The tomb of Amenhotep III? It has a false wall with a false floor concealing a deadly pit trap. A 6 meter (20 foot) drop down a featureless shaft was basically a death sentence for anyone unlucky enough to get fall in.
me opening up to people
that would be a sucky way to die. depending on how you land, you'll probably survive the fall and then starve to death
@@parthl You might survive the fall but you'd likely be just injured enough to not be able to make it out, even if someone dropped a rope to you. You'd likely lay there in pain, slowly dying either from your injuries or starvation/thirst.
Lame. When I die, I'm going to build a dungeon around my corpse. Come for the grave-robbing, stay for the journey!
You're going to build it when you're dead? 🤣
Sweet! A zombie contractor! Don't see those very often.
We realised that the real treasure are the friends we made along the way
Be sure to add a dragon or two to go with your dungeon.
@@calvincoleman Build it while your alive, or have part of your will dedicated to building this elaborate maze
Even as a kid I figured the elaborate mechanisms of most Hollywood tombs would have been rendered non-functional simply due to decay and age. Nonetheless I had to wonder which ancient tomb had the most 'elaborate' traps built (either functional or non-functional).
"When springing a booby trap; always send the boob in first."
-Megatron
@Travis Ohaver
To which her invariable response was: "Ouch, Damn You."
Finally a Egyptian video that doesnt involve aliens or mystical powers. Awesome job.
I really appreciate the fact that this channel doesn't strecht every video to 10 min and when it's longer than 10 minutes, it is actually full of relevant info
The reason why now they are "death traps" is because they have been closed off for a really long time, which means chances are, there isn't enough oxygen in them to breathe properly. The same issue is found in underground caves which is why if you go there it's important to have a device on you that tells you if the air is safe to breathe. Not saying go rob places lol but if you do a bit of cave exploring, don't die a stupid death.
At least someone understands that principle. You open up an area that's been sealed decades.. don't just go walking in!
@James Currie there can still be all kinds of gasses present even if there is enough oxygen to sustain a tiny flame
Dust My Broom And what if there’s explosive vapor or dust?
"We took the gold, silver and precious stones, then we burned the wooden coffins because err.. well, I guess we're just dicks.."
U only got a small amount of gold from ancient Egyptians Africa's true beauty is it's full of gold coffee lithium coco iron oil things still underground nice clear beach islands and animals for everyone to eat if u can hunt without stealing but y'all ancestors cursed y'all for fuckin wit his special kids that's y y'all population shrinking bad enough he walked my ppl threw sea n drowned y'all ancestors
There's a lot of booby traps in Thailand.
yeah, I heard they are all A cup or double A cup ones, nothing to really worry about unless it involves disrespecting the king of the country then maybe a public beheading shall come about, true story.
@@heliosgnosis2744 I think he is talking about the ladyboys 😂😂
Holy F**k I read your post and it took me 4 seconds to figure the joke out. Laughed for 10min every time I thought of it in my head I crack up again. You made my day mate thanks
@@TwistedElbow24 Wooooooooosh
@@TwistedElbow24 woosh
In fact, sometimes there were booby traps but there were very special.
A mastaba of the 1 dynasty for example had a stone that stops the man from going to the burial camber. If you try to come trough this stone, smaller stones fall from the top.
In this case actually the tombraiders go through a side wall so they don’t even go near this Barrier
I went to the valley of the kings during a trip to Egypt and several of the tombs we went into had narrow passages that were set up in such a way that if illuminated by torch light, would cause a sort of optical illusion on the floor, making it look like one long tunnel. However it actually masked a 40ft drop where raiders would fall to either die. I'd say that's a booby trap.
In the case of Qin Shi Huang, the mercury was thought to be used as decoration(to represent rivers and lakes) but it's vaporized so much that it's unsafe to go in. It's one of the reasons why his main tomb was not opened yet, another one being it will be hard to protect once opened because the sheer size of the tomb.
If you ask anyone from a sea faring culture they will tell you that Sailors of old would catch sea birds on the decks of their ships and the most common bird they caught were called "Boobys" and the "Booby trap" was a simple rope noose trap used to catch the sea bird.
Leave a rope noose on the deck with bait in the middle, as soon as the bird lands or steps into the noose pull the end of the rope and the noose would tighten to trap the bird around the legs.
....
'Blue-Footed Booby' ... 'Red-Footed Booby'... 'Brown Booby'... 'Masked Booby'
With approx 5foot wingspan and a fair bit of meat on them they were prized as a supplement to their ships rations.
My anthropology professor, an active archaeologist, said the most common question he got from the public was: "How do you deal with the traps?". He would laugh and say there were never any traps
Rocking the smooth jacket. Looking fresh.
Simon, at this rate you're going to exhaust all of Earth's history and tidbits in 2019. We need to colonize Mars ASAP!
What no Indiana Jones giant rolling ball? Or exploding acid traps, nor flesh eating scarab beetles?🗿🗿🗿🐞🐞🐞
Interestingly those giant stone balls were a thing, but not used as a trap. -Daven
And the beetles were from _The Mummy_ or _The Mummy Returns._
@@TodayIFoundOut Real missed opportunity there...
Imhoteps coffin
Ooo! Looking dapper today!
Egyptian tomb: Warning! Trespassers will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law!
Grave Robbers: lol hold my beer while I bribe the cop.
Man, I never knew hieroglyphics were so eloquent.
I do know that one pyramid (Queens Pyramid? Not sure) does have a pitfall at the end of a corridor, and a skeleton was even found in it. Beyond that I'm not aware of any traps in the pyramids or tombs.
This convinced me that if I ever gain access to time travel. The first thing I will do is convince pharoahs to entrap their tombs.
Looking very smart today. Love that jacket. Where did you get it?
Without maintenance and repair, booby traps become useless, regardless of the technology used. Structures shift and settle; the ground shifts and settles; dirt or debris jam mechanisms; wood and bone decompose or become brittle; metals bend under a variety of pressures, and so on. IRL, Indiana Jones would walk out of that temple with the gold idol and THEN face danger from his rival and the locals.
There's one aspect of Mercury which you failed to include in the analysis... The Vapor Pressure of Mercury is incredibly high, meaning that it naturally has a tendency to spontaneously Vaporize, and will fill the air in a contaminated space with Mercury fumes, which are not exactly healthy to breathe in, for any amount of time.
Fully suited up, got dat beard going, and telling us informative interesting stories.
God you're just so classy old british person, we need to get you a monocle lol ;D
Actually..
That's be freaking awesome tbh..
True except he needs to wear non visible undershirts
Hell YEAH !! I can see it .... Now I can't unsee it ... Ever !
Do it Simon that would be a gas.
@@noobbotgaming2173 What is wrong with undershirts mate?
@@heliosgnosis2744 read my previous comment. I didn't say undershirts are bad. I said visible ones are and this is universally accepted. There are non-visible undershirts available and are needed for suits
His breathing pattern is....strange
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I think about Gary Larsons drawing about a mummy found by 3 archeologists : ” now that’s a curse on you, a curse on you and one on you....”
Just here for the trap memes.
Lovely blazer, have a good day.
Traps left Egypt a long time ago and settled in Thailand. So many traps when I went there.
I always wondered how and where the ancient Egyptians got their technology from that allowed them to build the extremely heavy duty, yet silent motorised engine that raised and lowered the massive concrete ceilings inside those tombs, they even installed some sort of build in second platform with spikes on it just in case crushing the body wasn’t enough
Booby Traps exist at Comicon....
Very much so
Wow thought the host was Michael from VSauce at first.
Gary Nakamura I’ve fallen for this same dude 3 times in the past 48 hours
I love the youtube channels he's involved one, from my knowledge it's this one amd Biographics.
i thought he was Walter White XD
I was in the valley of kings. The tour guys said. If you got caught tomb robbing. And the Pharos was in a bad mood that day. They mummified you ALIVE.
Phew!!! What a relief to hear that. Now I can go raid some tombs in safety!
Brilliant idea: Fill your tomb with things that are NOT gold and jewels.
The Pharaoh wants to know your location.
*finds Pharaoh's nude pictures in the sarcophagus*
Hmm... Indiana for might be watching this
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7:57 Hey I'm glad you used an image from the tv show Tutenstein! Takes me back.
I would think you would know this, but did you know they have never found mummies in the pyramids?
i will diy booby trap my front yard to capture jehovahs witnesses
That's a win for humanity then.
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I search for any topic I’m curious of, Simon Whistler has a video on it!
Bury gold
Get pissed when people want it
I'm planning an actual treasure hunt. I'm going to stockpile silver for a few years and announce a riddle to the location of the second clue. I'm not sure how many clues I want to do, but there'll need to be an honor system of putting a discovered clue back. That way, the guy a step behind still has a chance.
@@anthonyhayes1267 Hey, people still haven't found the golden owl from Hauser's book.
“Consider this account of a one 11th century B.C.E tomb raider...”. 😂😂😂
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Awsome it actually worked
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Opera
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Thought you were trolling, but it works!
Why was Lano wearing Han’s clothes at the end of The empire strikes back?
callum wright the rebels couldn’t give him a spare change of clothes from the laundry ship?
lando
@Daniel Southerland Don't you mean "ANAL"ytical 🤣🤣
@Daniel Southerland ({*})
It is such a pleasure to be listening to you
There may not have been booby traps, but there definitely would have been a gelatinous cube skulking around somewhere.
I found v sauce's doppelganger lol
What type of bees make milk?
Boobees BA DUM TSS 🤪
*Rimshot*
Booooooo
BA DUM *TITS*
you can milk a bee?!?!?
Jeff Lee ‘‘twas my favorite dad joke as a kid
I have read ,that the very first strike in history was reported at that village . When , due to the collapse of the economy and troubles on the borders , food supplies were not delivered . Particularly onions , which were highly prized , it was thought they gave strength !
I love these shows. I learn a lot of interesting stuff. Keep it up!!!
Grand Theft Tomb: Valley of the Kings... (just sayin).
ROTFLMAO! 😂
I always thought the word booby trap had something to do with the bird blue-footed booby
Wow that's lame
It does
8:00 Nice Tutenstein reference
The worx commercial actually got my head turned! I am happy it was an actual sponsorship not based on internet cookies because I am into that and divide my YT time between TDIFO and say, FourEyes or Diresta. Keep up the set design!
BOB Denard Biography please?
Bob Denard;
an elusive French mercenary who plied his trade throughout Africa, following his career of intrigue, violence, and a mercenary who survived some very messy missions in Africa, Denard ended up in the Coromos, where his role in the assassination of President Abdallah is still debated. After serving in the colonial army in French Indochina in the 1950s, Denard became a hired gun in 1961 when he moved to the Belgian Congo to help train government troops. From there, he took part in uprisings in Nigeria, Angola and Rhodesia, the British colony that later became Zimbabwe.
Denard also served the Shah of Iran and trained royalist troops in Yemen. He claimed he worked with British intelligence there, and with the CIA in Angola.
For years, Denard benefited from an interventionist French policy in its former colonies, and played on the Cold War chessboard - although he never got any official show of support.
A year after the failed Benin coup, Denard struck again - this time, successfully - with a putsch in the Comoros that brought in Ahmed
Vincent Kennedy McMahon ???
??
Interesting, but what does this have to do with ancient Egyptian pyramid death traps 🤔
Rather difficult to have any built-in traps when you didn't even build the structure in the first place.
You have to think...if there was a pit of snakes in an ancient Egyptian tomb, they would probably all starve within a few months without food, let alone 4000 years. That one is just logistically impossible unless some unknown people throughout the entirety of the ancient, classical, medieval, and modern ages actively feed that snakes during that entire time (which most certainly did not occur).
*those snakes
I don’t always watch your videos, but when I do, I binge
Today:The quest for the gold which is knowledge,is fraught with traps.We call these traps ads,which attempt to rob you of your fortunes.
Well done!
lol he said "Booby" :D
Ole kristian Grindheim ok Beavis.
It's amazing how smoothly he worx the commercial in.
Imagine seeing the guy, who’s stuff you stole, in the afterlife. “Tootenhymen! My man! Look i can explain.”
“Booty traps!” “Do you mean booby traps?” “That’s what I said, I said booby traps!”
Name the movie ☝️
Lara Croft is watching this video
I’m wondering is there any real cases of traps, etc. in any kind of tomb? In one of the Indiana Jones movies at the start they’re in the jungle... I could see a tomb like that maybe having some kind of traps 🤔
I cannot appreciate enough the fact that all the hard work you do to give us such great quality content. I give a thumbs up to every single video. Thank you to everyone who is involved.
Why are comic books called issues?
Issue(ed) -> Release / Released to
I dont get this, comic books are called comic books, or funny pages if you are of that generation. Comic Books have titles, and in those titles you have a reoccurring new story with a number (And not all comics was numbered), which then can be called an issue within a run of an ongoing series, or title (Such as Amazing Spider-Man). www.howtolovecomics.com/comic-book-glossary-of-terms/ and bookriot.com/2017/08/24/guide-comics-terminology/
But yeah, no one calls them issues. And if they do, someone needs to point this out to them quickly. And address their issue in a careful, but yet stern matter.
Cuz if you buy them you got issues.
That's a Big Issue.
Silvers24 More precisely, every recurring publication (not just cartoons) has each individual one being an "issue", sometimes numbered consecutively as issue 1, 2, 3, ... sometimes more fanciful. So a the printed publication "Action Comics" has issue numbers also marked with very approximate dates. The stories in there may have various kinds of episode and strip numbers, but it's the publications that specifically have "issue" numbers.
Issue numbers are not limited to entertainment. Even scientific publications have numbered issues, sometimes going back more than 100 years.
Pretty sure one of the dislikes is from Lara Croft
Why did the tomb robber that you quoted sound like a cheeky cockney to me?
Fair game Guvnor, me and pals were just after some hooky gem's to flog daaan the market
I recognize the stock photo used as being from Cu Chi in Vietnam. Might be another interesting subject for a future episode.
It's just a prank bro
This guy moves his eyebrows like 6x more than necessary.
Of course Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs had traps. A deck with only monsters would be horribly unbalanced.
"after they gone a little moldy." HILARIOUS
"Did Booby Traps Really Exist in Ancient Egyptian Tombs?"......why yes.....yes they did!!! They had places in Egypt at that time which were a combo of a Kazbar and a Titty Bar, which was the doom of many males lured in & trapped into a trip on the wild side..........
Chanel Santini
is a good trap.
Honestly what would be cool is putting bricks in a pattern on the floor that can hold it's own weight but if someone steps on it it will collapse
Saw stool, Simon, Saw stool. A sore horse has just finished a fourteen furlough race.
Not the type of traps I'm interested in 2/20
O o f
Of course there were Traps. You just have to be careful to look for a bulge or an Adam's apple.
lol
I love when I have time to watch these. I write fiction, and this gave me a great idea. Thanks.
(I said I write fiction, didn't say I was published. Big difference. )
Worx would've been VERY useful when I was working on a renovation project out in East Saint Paul (Minnesota). But that was between 2004 and 2012. I DID learn a boat-load during that time.
Thank you for your service.
I clicked on this video expecting to find out whether traps existed in ancient Egypt but I am extremely let down unsubscribed.
But...he answered that question in the video.
@@lortep458 I do not believe we are talking about the same type of traps.
@RaskBunzzz, I see what you did there!
@@raskuly
Hitherto unknown hieroglyphs have been discovered and translated. They read as follows: "it's only gay if the balls touch!"
Well they already had reverse traps (Hatchepsut) and guyliner, so it does stand to reason.
But why show the pyramids in the thumbnail when nothing really supports the idea that they were tombs?
Err... there are several Egyptian pyramids with burial chambers below them.
You knew what you were doing Simon
Nice suit dude ,looking dapper