Ancient Egyptian Mummification (Detailed & Cinematic) 🌅 ASMR Soft Spoken Historical RP

Thousands of years ago, the Ancient Egyptians believed that if their bodies were preserved, they may go on to the Afterlife and live just as they did on Earth. They fine-tuned their methods for artificial mummification over millennia—using the natron salt by the river to desiccate the body enough that bacteria wouldn't grow, cleaning the insides with wine that aided with preservation due to the alcohol content, and slathering on resins to seal the body from outside moisture. The result being humans from lifetimes and lifetimes ago being impeccably preserved and recognizable to this day.

This is a totally ASMR-ified recreation of mummification. Things are a little “hurried” or left out, as it's not super relaxing to spend a long time snip-snappin' the diaphragm to pull out the lungs or covering you in baking soda salt? That, and it took around 70 days to do all of this. There would also be a lot more people working on this process than just little ol' me :) check out the list of attributions for some awesome videos and articles on all of it!

Audio came out a little strange—I filmed with 3 construction sites nearby so my noise reduction worked overtime to take out the machine noises, and I wasn't close enough to the mics. It reminds me of the 3Dio audio, and everything else turned out perfect, so it was one of those "it is what it is" sitches.

You've Had a Long Journey ~ 00:00 – 00:50
Washing You with Nile Water ~ 00:50 – 08:00
Taking Care of the Brain ~ 08:00 - 13:35
Removing & Preparing the Organs ~ 13:35 – 20:22
Cleaning & Packing the Body ~ 20:22 - 23:17
Brushing the Natron Off You ~ 23:17 – 23:50
Washing You Off ~ 23:50 – 24:52
Re-Packing & Sewing Up the Body ~ 24:52 – 25:55
Closing the Facial Cavities ~ 25:55 – 27:47
Applying Cosmetics, Necklace, & Wig ~ 27:47 – 29:50
Brushing Resin on Your Face ~ 29:50 – 32:00
Wrapping the Body with Linen ~ 32:00 – 43:52
One Last Shroud ~ 43:52 – 44:42
The Final Spells ~ 44:42 – 46:14
Outro ~ 46:14 - 47:18

Triggers include: soft speaking, water sounds, explaining things, personal attention, fabric sounds, stiff brush sounds, face touching, washing your face, gritty powder sounds, layered sounds, reading aloud, brushing you, and desert wind ambiance.

Attributions:
• 'Desert binaural Wind.WAV' from Benbojangles on Freesound (https://freesound.org/people/Benbojangles/sounds/457159/) under a Creative Commons 0 License (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode)
• Mummification article with some dope videos, like Egyptologist Robert Brier's lecture on how he created the first mummy in 2000 years and continues to use it for research, an animation about a Late period mummy and how it was treated, and a clip with Dr. Zahi Hawass (I LOVE YOU DR. HAWASS!!!!) discussing a mummy recipe. (https://discoveringegypt.com/egyptian-mummification/)
• Nature.com article 'Biomolecular analyses enable new insights into ancient Egyptian embalming': (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05663-4#Tab1)
• Smithsonian article on mummies: (https://www.si.edu/spotlight/ancient-egypt/mummies#:~:text=Ancient%20Egypt%20Egyptian%20Mummies&text=The%20methods%20of%20embalming%2C%20or,that%20would%20not%20easily%20decay.)
• How Stuff Works articles on 'How Mummies Work' (https://science.howstuffworks.com/mummy3.htm)
• Australian Museum's article on 'How were ancient Egyptians mummified?' (https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/international-collection/ancient-egyptian/how-were-ancient-egyptians-mummified/) & their article on 'The origins of mummification in ancient Egypt': (https://australian.museum/learn/cultures/international-collection/ancient-egyptian/the-origins-of-mummification-in-ancient-egypt/)
• Spurlock Museum's article on The New Kingdom (1570–1069BCE) focusing on mummification: (https://www.spurlock.illinois.edu/exhibits/online/mummification/history4.html)
• Ancient Egypt Online's article on mummification: (https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/mummification/)
• Book of the Dead spells translated by E. A. Wallis Budge

Hope y'all enjoy, have a whale of a day! :)

xx Calliope

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Audio Recording – Rode NT1-A Microphones with Zoom H4N Recorder
Filming – Lumix G85 Camera

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