"Abbooooooooooottttt..."
-PJ
Posted on 09/05/2021 1:31:33 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In the nearly 200 years since his mummy’s arrival at the Leeds City Museum in northern England, an ancient Egyptian priest named Nesyamun has slowly but surely revealed his secrets.
Employed as a high-ranking priest and scribe at the Karnak state temple in Thebes, Nesyamun performed rituals filled with both song and speech. Active during the turbulent reign of Ramses XI, who served as Egypt’s pharaoh between 1099 and 1069 B.C., he died in his mid-50s, likely due to a severe allergic reaction, and suffered from ailments including gum disease and heavily worn teeth. And, as evidenced by inscriptions on his coffin, Nesyamun hoped his soul would one day speak to the gods much as he had in life.
A new study published in the journal Scientific Reports fulfills the 3,000-year-old priest’s vision of the afterlife, drawing on CT scans of his surprisingly intact vocal tract to engineer an approximation of his voice. The sound bite, created with a speech synthesizing tool called the Vocal Tract Organ, reconstructs “the sound that would come out of his vocal tract if he was in his coffin and his larynx came to life again,” says study co-author David Howard, a speech scientist at Royal Holloway, University of London, to the New York Times’ Nicholas St. Fleur.
The clip itself is brief and vaguely underwhelming, capturing a single vowel sound media outlets have described as “resembl[ing] a brief groan,” “a bit like a long, exasperated ‘meh’ without the ‘m,’” “a sound caught between the words ‘bed’ and ‘bad,’” and “rather like ‘eeuuughhh.’”
(Excerpt) Read more at smithsonianmag.com ...
It’s easy to forget that he was once a funny guy.
What you did there, I see it.
"Abbooooooooooottttt..."
-PJ
I hereby nominate it as such.
Can I get another “ehhhh”?
Black teeth = Betel nut chewer.
He's my favorite honky!
Love that skit.
Sarks??? Seruslee Otto Kor Wrecked? I typed Darks!
EHHHH!
that might be it.
The head monk was always spitting stuff out of his mouth
I dont like sitting through movies with subtitles and this one is over 5 hours long. I watched the whole thing (over two days)
“Come on, man!”
LOLOL
“Betel nut chewer”
Please don’t say that three times!!!
Sounds like a severe case of dry mouth.
What a picture in that article! The 3000 year old mummy gets better healthcare than we do. Of course, he looks like the air fryer was set too long, in front of that MRI.
What did he say? “I would have come sooner, but I got all tied up.” “Rootay Amun Ra.” No, just “Meh!”, without the “M”. Wow!
That’s a wrap.
“Get me out of this box!”
Is it real, or is it Memorhotep-ex?
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