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Timesuck with Dan Cummins

13 - The Dead Do Tell Tales

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.721.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Timesucker and British archaeologist Rebecca Pridmore sent me some fascinating articles on what we’ve learned from the excavation of various ancient tombs and incredibly well preserved corpses. Bog people, a 12,000 year old funeral, and more on this rotten, decaying, and totally dead episode of Timesuck.

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0:00.0

I've written the Pirates of the Caribbean right at Disneyland enough times to be very very familiar with the phrase

0:06.4

Dead men tell no tales

0:09.6

Well, we're not talking about pirates today, but we are gonna learn that dead men and dead women do in fact

0:15.8

Tell tales

0:17.4

Archaeologists learn a great deal about human history from the dead

0:20.8

What we used to look like what we used to eat who we traded with how we died how we dressed and so much more

0:27.0

So let's dig into some old death on a rotten decayed

0:30.7

But still very well preserved episode of time suck

0:44.0

All right this episode time suck 13 is a listener suggested episode again special thanks to British archaeologist and time sucker

0:52.3

Rebecca Pridmore for not only suggesting this topic, but doing a lot of the research

0:56.5

Sentiment links to various fascinating articles on a variety of interesting discoveries of tombs or of ancient corpses

1:05.0

Now a few weeks after Rebecca suggested this article

1:08.2

I got to think about what we learned from the dead because I went on a field trip with my son Kyler with his school

1:14.6

And we went to I was a vol- parental volunteer which is always interesting. I feel like a sociologist when I'm around

1:22.2

You know when his classmates just like kids are so fucking weird

1:27.4

But we went to this museum and they had this

1:30.2

Egyptian mummy display

1:32.6

Some unknown woman I think I want to say it was on loan from a New York museum

1:37.2

But it's Annie is the mummy's name. Maybe you've seen this mummy at a different museum yourself

1:42.6

This was in Spokane at the Mac

1:45.0

Spokane, Washington and I read about this display about Annie and

1:49.7

It was interesting like all the things they did to mummy said I'm sure I learned before but I've forgotten about like they held

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