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[MagmaMcFry]

It's easy to make blocks fit perfectly if you smear the gap with charcoal, place the block inside, remove the block again, and chisel off every part of the block that got black. Ancient Greeks did that AFAIK.

Also, he probably fails to understand that the Egyptians were better at chiseling than him.

[10ebbor10]

It's easy to make blocks fit perfectly if you smear the gap with charcoal, place the block inside, remove the block again, and chisel off every part of the block that got black. Ancient Greeks did that AFAIK.

Also, he probably fails to understand that the Egyptians were better at chiseling than him.

Ancient egyptians were good at a lot of stuff. I mean, they could remove the brain without damaging the skull. (Not visibly anyway.) And Invented bread, and candy, and I believe even once did a succesfull brain operation.

[MagmaMcFry]

Also, they were probably pretty fucking bored without an Internet.

[Loud Whispers]

It's easy to make blocks fit perfectly if you smear the gap with charcoal, place the block inside, remove the block again, and chisel off every part of the block that got black. Ancient Greeks did that AFAIK.

10th century B.C. then? That's goooooood. Though the main argument is the moving of the big rocks. Polyspastons are the trump cards I plan to pull out.

[MrWillsauce]

Well seeing as how they believed the only purpose of the brain was to produce mucus, and thoughts took place in the heart, I doubt the brain surgery thing.

[Darvi]

Unless he meant something like removing a brain for mummification.

Yanno, removing the rotting innards.

[RedKing]

No, I think they threw the brain out. Maybe somebody had a bad runny nose. I seem to remember they devised a method for extracting the brain *through* the nose during the mummifcation process. Mostly by using a long iron hook. Kind of like a coat-hangar abortion for your head.
_{going to hell for that last comment}

[MagmaMcFry]

Well seeing as how they believed the only purpose of the brain was to produce mucus, and thoughts took place in the heart, I doubt the brain surgery thing.

So that's why they pull it out through the nose.

[10ebbor10]

Well seeing as how they believed the only purpose of the brain was to produce mucus, and thoughts took place in the heart, I doubt the brain surgery thing.

I believe the tale went as follows.

Important person is attacked by dog, dog bites important person in the head, fracturing the skull. The egyptian surgeon removes the pieces of the skull that got stuck inside the brain.

Then the patient somehow survived.

[Loud Whispers]

Well seeing as how they believed the only purpose of the brain was to produce mucus, and thoughts took place in the heart, I doubt the brain surgery thing.

I believe the tale went as follows.

Important person is attacked by dog, dog bites important person in the head, fracturing the skull. The egyptian surgeon removes the pieces of the skull that got stuck inside the brain.

Then the patient somehow survived.

Isn't that just regular ol' surgery though?

[10ebbor10]

They poked around in the brain. Don't now how they fixed the exposed bits though.

[MrWillsauce]

I'd hardly call that an achievement. That's like accidentally dropping a safe unto a robber, then claiming yourself to be a hero.

[RedKing]

There was also a "budget" version of embalming where instead of removing the organs and placing them in canopic jars (which was time-consuming and took a lot of expertise to do right, and was therefore quite expensive. If you were only a mid-level functionary or minor priest, you went for option 2:

They sealed all your bodily orifices but one, poured you full to the brim with an embalming oil (which was also somewhat alkaline), and then sealed that last orifice and set you aside for a few days. After the oil and decomposition worked together to turn your insides into an organ smoothie, they'd open up one of the orifices and let it pour out. Kind of like a really, REALLY severe enema. 

[MrWillsauce]

Also there's always the good ol' wrapping the body in linen and burying it in hot sand. That lasts long enough.

[Loud Whispers]

I'd hardly call that an achievement. That's like accidentally dropping a safe unto a robber, then claiming yourself to be a hero.

Well, it was the first step. Go all the way to Alexandria and you get stuff like the Hippocratic oath and the great library.
Then the dark ages happened.