A Murder Mystery in Roman Egypt
Egyptian papyri shed a unique light on ancient crime and punishment – including a remarkable murder mystery in the village of …
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March 7, 2026
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Egyptian papyri shed a unique light on ancient crime and punishment – including a remarkable murder mystery in the village of …
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Imagine the balls one must have to look at this mangled beat up body of a priest, who said you killed him and then go "your honour, it is clear this man has died from natural causes" and then expect them to believe it
The first image in the video has got me thinking, were Roman Emperors considered the Pharoah by Egyptians during their control? Or was there a pharoah that served under the emperor? Perhaps a video on egyptian religion/society under Roman rule would be a good topic
600 years under Roman rule. Time moved more slowly in the past.
I want to see movies based on these types of stories, so historical dramas about everyday life and regular people, not epics about battles or kings. Filled in with all the historical details, maybe even in reconstructed languages, but also showing parallels with present-day life – there should be lots of opportunities to have fun with that. Imagine like Fargo or Chinatown set in ancient Greece or medieval Europe.
How did Romans lock their doors when they weren't homeM
I'm telling you it was Captain Custard with the candlestick in the Ballroom.
The Romans stayed in Egypt for 600 years, yet Egyptians haven't adopted Latin as their language. Why? How Egyptians managed to keep their language and culture alive under the Roman Empire?
This story is fascinating, thanks for doing this ❤️
I'm going to assume that the defendants got off after the judge awoke with a horse head in his bed.
Your videos are great and i love the facts you put into all your videos! I wrote a 10 page paper for my art history course and since then ive been in love with learning about the feats and lives of the romans
Theft, murder and Nord VPN
That's quite a sequence in the vidoe's segments
Found appropriate background music for this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz4-aEGvqQM
"One man went to a funeral and returned to find his house stripped bare." What effects did an average house have?
That picture is awsome
as someone trained in forensic anthropology, these are the kinds of stories i love- people have always been people, and despite cultural differences, societies always share some things. i always wonder about the murder mysteries, the missing persons and folklore that went on in ancient times. great video!
Ancient Egypt sounds like a combination of Iraq and New Jersey.
I like your videos, but you really don't have to change the thumbnail and title every other hour just because it's not hitting the right numbers on the algorithm. If anything, it makes me less likely to watch because now I feel that you're just desperately fishing for views when your content is better than that. Have some faith and realize that not every video is going to be a smash hit. I and many others weren't swayed originally by catchy thumbnails and (overtly) clickbait titles, but insightful commentary on Antiquity. Please don't become just another history channel but with worse production values.
“Next on Law and Order: Egypt!”
The thumbnail is a floor mosaic from Villa San Michele in Capri.
The thumbnail is giving me ilusion
Wow. This is fascinating. It is such a torture that we can never know the results of the court case!
Your channel is excellent in both its detail and breadth of subjects covered.
Great videos! Very concise
I’m betting getting drunk is a better way to the truth than torture ever was/is. I know I’d rather be hammered before I’m um hammered.
I love the last picture in the video! It's amazing! It looks almost like a modern person trying to photoshop themselves into an old picture, with his roman style portrait. Also the slightly warped temple background is so interesting, combined with his expression it almost looks like the whole picture is a part of some religious ritual where he may or may not have had too many shrooms. Would love to find out more about it 😀
I remember reading the story of Artemidorus in the Readers Digest several decades ago. It fascinated me. Now this. Interesting.
The narrator skillfully avoids (deliberately?) A huge number of images of ruinist artists, where it is clearly visible that Rome and other cities at the time of painting are under a multi-meter layer of alluvial soil. Such an amount of soil and such destruction can occur only when the region is flooded with huge masses of water and the soil moved by it. Why are you lying to people? What do you want to hide? All normal people have long understood that Ancient Rome was at least 1000 years closer to us than the Catholics are trying to convey to us. They also attributed 1000 years in chronology.
Damn, crazy to hear how different villages would quarrel with one another, reminiscent of the hoods up in the big cities. Interesting to see how things never change. Wonder if they repped any colors or had gang signs.
Excellent content, however I have some reservations for the dubbing of the fayyum portraits as Greek style, since Greeks never Achebe such realism in their portraits. A more appropriate term, if you must would be Egyptian-Greco, though I personally believe all evidence show it to be strictly an Egyptian phenomenon as no cognate exists outside of Egypt.