Curated Video
I WONDER - Why Were The Pyramids Sealed With Large Stones?
This video is answering the question of why were the pyramids sealed with large stones.
Curated Video
A Terracotta Archer Brought to Life: My Recreation of This Warrior as a Modern Man
I'm an artist that uses photoshop to bring old images and statues into the modern day. I use photo-compositing and digital drawing techniques to achieve a more photo-realistic appearance. Welcome to the time-lapse creation of my...
Curated Video
I WONDER - Why Did The Celts Have Burial Mounds?
This video is answering the question of why did the Celts have burial mounds.
Learning Mole
Egyptian Pyramid Facts
This video explores five fun facts about the Egyptian pyramids.
Flame Media
Real Futures: What is Cryonics?
Since the 1950s, futurists have been obsessed with cryonics, the practice of freezing dead people in liquid nitrogen in order to restore them to life later. But thanks to new developments in life-extension technology, cryonics isn't as...
Weird History
What Life Was Like For An Egyptian Embalmer
Making mummies in ancient Egypt wasn't for the faint of heart. Mummification was developed thousands of years ago but didn't become standard practice in Egypt until the Old Kingdom (c. 2600-2150 BCE). Embalmers were sacred individuals...
Weird History
What Was It Like To Be A Roman Gladiator
Gladiators were the rock stars of the Roman Empire. But what was gladiator combat like? How did the slaves of the arena fight and survive over centuries worth of matches? Gladiator combat was a little different than movies would have you...
Weird History
Unusual Viking Rituals That Will Surprise You
Vikings would slaughter dozens and perform some pretty severe ritualistic executions. What’s known is that the Viking age is littered with some extreme rituals from the Norse religion but also a few oddball traditions that Vikings...
Next Animation Studio
Mummy with golden tongue found in Egypt
Egyptologists theorize the golden tongue would have helped the deceased to ‘speak to Osiris’ in the afterlife.
After Skool
The War on Consciousness - Graham Hancock
What is death? Our materialist science reduces everything to matter, materialist science in the West says that we are just meat, we're just our bodies. So when the brain is dead, that's the end of consciousness, there is no life after...
Next Animation Studio
Children murdered, turned into mummies for aristocrats
Archaeologists in Peru have recently been finding the bodies of hundreds of children who were alive and kicking until they were turned into mummies.
Curated Video
Religion in Ancient Egypt
Religion in Ancient Egypt was something closely connected with every day life to politics and culture. The Egyptians had a strong believe in after life and followed every step to prove that. Watch the story of how the Egyptians preserved...
5 Minutes English
Ancient Egypt | 5 MINUTES
From its unification to its conquest by Alexander the Great, Ancient Egypt lasted about 3000 years, which is 15 times the age of the US, showing incredible continuity and holding great fascination through it's culture and monuments. Get...
Weird History
Fascinating Facts About China's Terracotta Army
Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, built the huge Terracotta Army to protect him in the afterlife. An elaborate tomb complex in Xi'an, the city-size compound came equipped with everything the emperor would require in the...
60 Second Histories
Mummification - part 1
An Egyptian high priest talks about life after death and what happens when a pharaoh dies, he explains the grisly process of mummification to preserve the body and turn it into a mummy.
60 Second Histories
Canopic jars
An Egyptian high priest describes the organs that are retained from the body during the mummification process, and explains how they are stored in canopic jars.
60 Second Histories
Mummification - part 2
An Egyptian high priest continues to talk about mummification and explains the symbolism of the amulets and magic charms they used to send the pharaoh into the afterlife.
AllTime 10s
10 Theories About The Afterlife
What happens after you die? We've all wondered what happens to us when we eventually pass on 'to the other side', but what exactly is there to pass on to? Here are our 10 Theories About The Afterlife'
Curated Video
Why 2025 is going to be different for the Catholic church
The Catholic church is holding a special jubilee year in 2025, an event that only happens every quarter of a century.
Curated Video
Technology helps museum unwrap the history behind its mummies
Researchers at the Field Museum in Chicago share the results of scans on nearly 30 mummified individuals from ancient Egypt. (Scripps News)