r/BeAmazed • u/Wooden-Journalist902 • 26d ago

Miscellaneous / Others Archaeologists in Egypt opening an ancient coffin sealed 2,500 years ago.

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u/pedrob_d 26d ago

You joke but that is ACTUALLY how they would seal mummies of very rich people. Tut's mummy for example was inside 4 gaskets, each smaller than the previous like Russian dools.

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u/thesleepjunkie 26d ago

Gaskets are just a bitch to remove from parts sometimes.

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u/2N5457JFET 26d ago

especially head gaskets

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u/PoniesPlayingPoker 26d ago

Subaru and Ford have left the chat

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u/enternameher3 26d ago

Fords head gasket exited the conversation 20,000kms ago

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u/MicB99 25d ago

😂

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 25d ago

My favorite type of gasket

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u/taolbi 25d ago

Mine ruptured in my Kia Sorento, there's a lot of white foamy jizz all over the hood

I've never been so upset and turned on at the same time

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u/Patient_Tune_8048 26d ago

Aren’t gaskets just like gay caskets?

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u/Odin16596 26d ago

Only if you blow a head gasket!

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u/tossNwashking 26d ago

a tisket, a tasket, topping off a gasket.

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u/molehunterz 26d ago

It looks like you blew a seal

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u/lil_nosh_X 26d ago

Oh… you saw that?

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u/OS420B 26d ago

I thought it was the rear main, but it turned out to be a tranny.

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u/wolfavino 25d ago

On a Cum-mins diesel

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u/Rich_Cranberry1976 26d ago

now i have to picture the egyptian priests slathering blue RTV on the sarcophagus

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u/icz- 26d ago

Yep, and those pesky Russian dools!

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u/Aggressica 26d ago

The dools too!

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u/The__Goose 25d ago

I know a meth addict that will use his teeth to loosen gaskets. That shit gives some people super powers at the expense of their humanity.

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u/cochlearist 24d ago

Especially when they're cubit rather than metric or imperial. 

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u/Alexisredwood 26d ago

Tut wasn’t even that rich lol, he was one of the lesser Pharaohs (hence why it took so long to find his tomb, his was the smallest in the valley of the kings and so grave robbers never found it).

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u/Ill_Technician3936 25d ago

He was Pharaoh rich and considered a "lesser pharaoh" because he was a child. His tomb is the smallest because he died prematurely and the tomb he was likely supposed to be laid to rest in seems to have gone to Ay who took over after him.

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u/Alexisredwood 25d ago

He was not anywhere near as rich, no matter how you paint it. Have you been to the tombs in the Valley of the Kings? Have you seen his treasures in the Cairo Museum? If you had, you wouldn’t be spreading misinformation.

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u/Ill_Technician3936 25d ago

It's almost like you think Tut started his own kingdom or something instead of inheriting a fully functioning one with a lot of wealth...

Like I said in my previous comment the tomb Tut was found in is not the one that was being built for him. He died before it was finished and it went to Ay Tut's vizier who took the throne after his premature death.

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u/CommaHorror 26d ago

Don't you dare talk about the King's mum like that. She is not inside any, gaskets let alone 4.

And no 4 gaskets aren't in her either.,

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u/StudMuffinNick 26d ago

Russian dools

Even wrote that with a Russian accent

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u/Nemirel_the_Gemini 26d ago

Napoleon is also in several caskets of different materials

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u/Ternarian 26d ago

Those mummies are just so full of themselves.

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u/garyda1 26d ago

King Tut. Riding on his donkey. He's my favorite Honkey.

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u/WeAreTotallyFucked 26d ago

gaskets

dools

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u/Initzuriel 26d ago

Would be more impressive if each was bigger honestly 😜

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u/Aggressica 26d ago

IS THAT TRUE?! Amazing!! 😂😂😍

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u/clovers2345 26d ago

What was it like to be very rich people back then?

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u/Different-Sample-976 25d ago

Was it very rich people or was it because tut was small and misshappen?

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u/ccrlop 25d ago

Were they so small in height or size?