We Found the First Pregnant Mummy Ever Documented
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4.6 • 963 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Learn about a pregnant mummy; the three body problem; and why you should take off your shoes when you enter your house.
A newly discovered pregnant mummy is raising questions about ancient Egyptian beliefs by Grant Currin
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New development in solving the three body problem by Briana Brownell
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Cody Gough. |
| 0:07.0 | And I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:08.0 | Today you learn about how a newly discovered pregnant mummy could change what we know about ancient Egypt, a new development |
| 0:15.1 | in solving the three-body problem, and how important it is to take off your shoes when you |
| 0:20.6 | enter your house. |
| 0:21.8 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:25.0 | Scientists in Poland made a surprising discovery |
| 0:28.0 | while systematically reviewing their collection of mummies, as one does. Turns out the mummy that they thought was a male priest was actually |
| 0:37.4 | pregnant. And this is a big deal because she's the first pregnant mummy ever documented. The scientists are calling her the |
| 0:46.1 | mysterious lady of the National Museum in Warsaw, which is going to be a real pain |
| 0:51.5 | to fill in on scantrons. |
| 0:54.0 | She was in her 20s and probably lived during the first century BC. |
| 0:58.9 | They think she had a high status in Egyptian society because the body was decked out with a quote rich set of |
| 1:06.0 | amulets unquote wrapped in linen and other fabrics and probably buried in the royal tombs of Thebes. |
| 1:13.2 | The lady was donated to the University of Warsaw in 1826. |
| 1:18.3 | The funny thing is that they knew at the time that the mummy was female. |
| 1:22.4 | The change happened later when researchers They knew at the time that the mummy was female. |
| 1:22.8 | The change happened later when researchers translated the hieroglyphs on the coffin, which said |
| 1:28.5 | it was a male priest. |
| 1:30.6 | The team behind the new discovery thinks the mummy may have been put in the wrong coffin by mistake. |
| 1:36.0 | Imaging done in the 90s showed a quote anomaly in the pelvic region, |
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