Evidence of 'brain drain' in ancient Egypt

An ancient coffin with strange decorative drawings reveals much of the chaos of ancient Egyptians 2500 years ago.

The Live Science website reported that the researchers said a 2,500-year-old sarcophagus with strange and somewhat strange decorative figures revealed more information about the turbulent period of the ancient Egyptians. the reign of the Persian Empire.

In 525 BC, the Persian king Cambyses captured Memphis - the ancient Egyptian capital of the time - and began the reign of more than a century of the Persian Empire in the country. At that time, the Persian Empire was one of the most powerful nations in the region with a large area of ​​territory extending from Afghanistan today to the coast of Turkey.

The depletion of gray matter happened in ancient Egypt 2,500 years ago.

Gayle Gibson, an ancient Egyptian researcher at the Royal Ontario Toronto Museum, Canada, said that the figures on the coffin look quite strange and not very professional. This may be due to the depletion of the gray matter that happened during this period, when skilled Egyptian artisans were arrested to Persia to build structures, only those left specialized and not well trained.

One of the strange points on the sarcophagus is a picture of a dead person lying on a mourning table, on a mourning table containing a picture of Three (bird-headed bird), flying above the dead is a snake with a winged king The crown is similar to the crown of the goddess Hathor. Below the ground were four jars containing Horus' four children, but these four jars looked ridiculous. Gayle Gibson said that this is the only funeral table with a trio-shaped decoration, in addition to that, the snake-shaped wing of Hathor's crown is not normal.

Pictures are strange and sloppy compared to other works of ancient Egypt.

In addition, the Mehen snake - a protective deity of ancient Egypt - was also very drawn with non-contiguous features, this sloppy detail shows that the person who painted the picture did not fully understand the meaning of Snake Mehen.

Many experts suspected that the sarcophagus was a fake due to the strange paintings painted carelessly on the sarcophagus. However, the researchers used radioactive carbon methods to date the coffin, the results suggest that this is a product from the Persian period 2500 years ago. Besides, mulberry wood material and blue coffin of the coffin are all confirmed by ancient Egyptians.

Reference: Livescience.