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Archaeologists were all set to uncover a mummy, like they’ve done so many times before. But when they opened the ancient tomb, surprise — no mummy inside! Instead, they found something totally unexpected: a mysterious message. It was carefully placed, like someone wanted it to be discovered one day. The message hinted that the body had been moved long ago, and even left clues about where it might’ve gone. So now, instead of wrapping up their dig, the archaeologists have a brand-new mystery to solve!  Credit: CC BY-SA 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/: Isis-Serget as Scorpion: by Walters Art Museum, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_-_Figure_of_Isis-Serget_as_Scorpion_-_Walters_54546_-_Side_A_(cropped).jpg Kom Ombo Ärzterelief: by Olaf Tausch, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kom_Ombo_Ärzterelief_03.JPG Animation is created by Bright Side.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Music from TheSoul Sound: https://thesoul-sound.com/   Check our Bright Side podcast on Spotify and leave a positive review! https://open.spotify.com/show/0hUkPxD34jRLrMrJux4VxV   Subscribe to Bright Side: https://goo.gl/rQTJZz ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Our Social Media: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brightside Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brightside.official TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@brightside.official?lang=en Telegram: https://t.me/bright_side_official   Stock materials (photos, footages and other): https://www.depositphotos.com https://www.shutterstock.com https://www.eastnews.ru ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------  For more videos and articles visit: http://www.brightside.me  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This video is made for entertainment purposes. We do not make any warranties about the completeness, safety and reliability. Any action you take upon the information in this video is strictly at your own risk, and we will not be liable for any damages or losses. It is the viewer's responsibility to use judgement, care and precaution if you plan to replicate.

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00:00They found the tomb of a royal doctor who lived over 4,000 years ago, a man who held

00:07Pharaoh's lives in his hands.

00:09This man knew secrets that only deities and kings were allowed to hear.

00:13And yet, when they opened his tomb in 2024, there was no body, just vivid paintings untouched

00:20by time and cryptic symbols carved into stone.

00:24Who was he, and why was he buried with spells linked to a scorpion deity?

00:29The tomb was buried deep beneath the sands of Saqqara.

00:33The doctor's name was Tete Nebe Phu.

00:35He lived around 4,100 years ago, during one of Egypt's most mysterious turning points,

00:41right at the edge of glory and collapse.

00:44These were the final days of Egypt's old kingdom.

00:48The sun still glinted off freshly built pyramids, but the shadows were already creeping in.

00:54The pharaoh, Pepi II, had ruled longer than anyone before him, 90 years.

01:00But by the end of his reign, the country was cracking.

01:04The power was slipping, the regional leaders were rising, and the Nile floods grew unpredictable.

01:10In this shaky period, the mysterious doctor thrived.

01:14His tomb was discovered by a Swiss-French archaeological team in the shadows of old pyramids.

01:20The weirdest part was that, when they uncovered his burial chamber, they found no body.

01:27No golden treasures, either.

01:29Unfortunately, the tomb had been robbed long ago.

01:32But what remained was something even more fascinating.

01:36The words and images left on the walls.

01:38The paintings are still vibrant, bright colors that somehow survived all those years underground.

01:45The walls show jars, containers, strange abstract patterns, and geometric shapes.

01:51And then, there are hieroglyphs.

01:54Lines and lines of sacred script carved with precision, like someone had poured their soul into every curve.

02:01These inscriptions revealed who Teti Nebe Phu truly was.

02:05Turns out, he wasn't just any doctor.

02:09He was the conjurer of Serket.

02:11Now, Serket was the female deity of scorpions, sacred and terrifying.

02:17Egyptians believed she could stop venom, heal bites, and protect the living from toxic elements.

02:23The title, conjurer of Serket, meant Teti Nebe Phu was a specialist in treating dangerous stings and bites.

02:30And if he got an entire tomb for himself, he may have been Egypt's top expert in those things.

02:37A man who healed with both medicine and magic.

02:41But that wasn't all.

02:43He also held the title, Director of Medicinal Plants.

02:46A title seen only once before in all of ancient Egypt.

02:50That means he knew the healing power of herbs, roots, and oils like no one else.

02:55Now, you might wonder, what plants in a huge land of sand?

03:00But in reality, ancient Egyptians used herbal medicine that would hold up in some labs today.

03:06They created pills, ointments, and inhalers.

03:09Most often, they chose some active ingredient.

03:12A flavor to make it easier to take, and something to deliver it into the body.

03:16Sound familiar?

03:18And yeah, they didn't have many traditional plants.

03:21So, some of these ingredients were bizarre by our standards.

03:24Like using crocodile dung and acacia mixed with honey.

03:28Mmm.

03:29They even had formulas for anti-wrinkle creams.

03:32And apparently, our mysterious healer was also chief dentist.

03:37This title is almost never seen in ancient records.

03:40Evidence of Egyptian dentists is incredibly rare.

03:43Turns out, our ancient genius didn't just fight stings and study plants.

03:47He was also trusted with teeth and jaws, which were actually a huge problem in ancient Egypt.

03:54These people may have built wonders, but their teeth paid the price.

03:58Ancient Egyptians constantly caught grains of sand in their mouths.

04:02They often ate grit-filled bread and raw vegetables, which wore down enamel and caused a horrible condition called attrition.

04:10This led to tons of problems, including tooth loss.

04:13They had to improvise back in the day.

04:15For example, crafting the world's oldest known toothpaste from crushed rock, mint, and pepper.

04:22Which, ironically, only made things worse for the gums.

04:25Or a toothpaste from things like eggshells, pumice, and natron, a salty mineral used for cleaning.

04:32They were also inventing mouthwashes from celery, bran, and herbs to ease the problem.

04:38Some mummies were even found with crude metal braces and gold wires attaching missing teeth.

04:43Though we're not sure if these were for the living, or was it just a nice little addition added as an afterlife gift?

04:51So, Tete Nebi Fu specialized in all these fields.

04:56Three rare titles for one man.

04:59Now, back in the day, he must have been admired as incredibly knowledgeable.

05:03In a world without modern science, he would have been like a sorcerer who knows how some leaf or bark could save a life.

05:11That's why archaeologists believe Tete Nebi Fu wasn't just any doctor.

05:15He was, most likely, the royal physician.

05:18The one who treated the pharaoh himself.

05:21We don't know for sure which king he served.

05:24Maybe it was Pepe II.

05:26And who knows?

05:27Maybe that's why the guy lived so long.

05:29But if that was the case, Tete Nebi Fu may have lived through the final moments of the Old Kingdom,

05:36watching the Golden Age crumble from inside the palace walls.

05:40And then he was buried.

05:43The body was looted, or perhaps just lost to time.

05:46But the team says they're still studying the tomb, still uncovering the traces of this incredible man.

05:53Overall, ancient Egyptians were practicing medicine on a crazy advanced level.

05:57Some practices feel familiar even today.

06:01They had hospitals, specialists, surgeries, and many more things.

06:05Even medical schools.

06:08Both men and women were allowed to be doctors.

06:11They healed with various methods and practiced surgery with actual tools.

06:15Scalpels, forceps, even sutures.

06:18Some doctors treated only the eyes.

06:20Others, the teeth, the stomach, or even what they called the hidden diseases.

06:24They knew how to clean and dress wounds, could set broken bones using splints made of wood or reeds,

06:31wrapped in linen, and even prevented infections.

06:34There were even proctologists.

06:36They also built the first prosthetics, like a wooden toe with leather straps that help people walk normally again.

06:44The oldest known prosthetic is 3,000 years old.

06:48Now, the most shocking part is how they actually even tried to remove tumors.

06:52A recent study looked at a 4,000-years-old skull.

06:56It belonged to a man in his 30s.

06:58There were signs of past tumors.

07:01And around 3 of them, there were marks, surgical cuts made with a metal tool.

07:06That suggests someone attempted to remove or study them.

07:09Maybe treatment.

07:10Maybe an autopsy.

07:12There was another skull of a woman over 50 years old.

07:16It also showed similar signs, but with healed fractures from an earlier injury.

07:21Which is amazing, because her treatment might have actually been successful.

07:26Being a healer in this society meant something powerful.

07:30It meant being a priest, a scientist, and a magician all at once.

07:34To ancient Egyptians, medicine was a necessary art.

07:38And they treated it with as much reverence as they did their deities.

07:41That's because they believed that sickness could be both physical and spiritual.

07:47So, a doctor could recite a spell while applying a salve.

07:50And a lot of their treatments worked.

07:53The reputation of doctors in ancient Egypt was so strong

07:57that leaders from other parts of the ancient world, like Persia, actually sought them out.

08:02Even Homer, the Greek poet, once said the Egyptians were the most skilled healers of all.

08:07Of course, their understanding of the human body wasn't perfect.

08:12For example, they thought the heart controlled thought and emotion.

08:16They also didn't know what the brain really did.

08:19But their approach, observe symptoms, diagnose, and treat, well, that's modern medicine.

08:25Sure, they prayed over the wound, but they also healed it, didn't they?

08:29Their most famous physician was Imhotep.

08:32That guy was a true polymath, an architect, priest, and a healer who became so revered

08:39he was later worshipped as a deity of medicine.

08:42Yep, a human who was so cool they turned him into a deity.

08:46He lived 2,000 years before Hippocrates, the so-called father of medicine.

08:51And yet, some people joke we should drop the Hippocratic oath altogether

08:55and swear an Imhotepic oath instead.

08:58These people weren't just laying the foundations of pyramids.

09:01They were laying the foundations of healthcare.

09:06That's it for today.

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