Like an intelligence agency.

I don't know why they need to call me out on being sticky, but its rude.

Urusei Yatsura (the original 80s run) is, on the flip side of that, probably the single most popular comedy ever in Japan, and is a modern sci-fi based on traditional Japanese mythology and folklore.

Mobile Suit Gundam and its sequel Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (especially) are like two of the best reviewed anime of all time, and Zeta in particular is probably the single most brutal anti-war artwork I've ever seen. The original finale was so bleak the creator later had to go back and retcon it lol.

I have to confess that beyond my interest in this as an Egyptologist, I'm just plain interested in historical women with my condition so Hatshepsut's long been a favourite of mine lol. Also for a ton of other reasons, but that's the funny one lol.

Depends on what sort of shows you like?

Bluesky typically only shows the first and last two posts in a thread, so I'm going to add one more post here at the bottom so that no one will accidentally see mummies without actively clicking into the thread. Also I guess tagging @jessicalfarrell.bsky.social since she asked about this earlier.

So what's up with that? Well... I mean... if it looks like a duck, and it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.

It's rude to say this, and we really don't like talking about mummies like this, but... yeah, we're pretty sure that Hatshepsut just had HUGE tits.

In contrast, the typical female mummy does not have this structure. We see it in SOME female mummies, but never to this degree. Your typical female mummy is, essentially (and pardon the pun) dead flat. There's no sign at all of them having had breasts, despite the fact that they would have in life.

But what makes KV60a VERY unique is that it has the aforementioned "very large skin flaps" attached in the same manner & place as a living woman's breast roots. They are uh... large. Very large. We don't typically photograph them out of respect for the dead, but you can see below that they hang LOW.

That means that most of the body just... shrivels up and reduces to a fraction of what it was. This very typically leaves us with basically not-there breasts, in womens' mummies.

Aaaaand then there's mummy KV60a. We're PRETTY sure that KV60a is Hatshepsut, though that's its own story.

We euphemistically refer to the anatomical feature in question as "very large skin flaps." You need to understand that this is... unusual, in a mummy, in the extreme. The human body, as most people know, is mostly water. Mummification is a super thorough drying process, to drastically oversimplify.

Sometimes we also see that medical data that we get from mummies. And in the instance we're talking about, specifically the mummy of (we're pretty sure) the female pharaoh Hatshepsut, we see a feature that, to my knowledge, we have never seen anywhere else.

We might, for instance, discover that one has a tattoo that clearly indicates... something, but because so many thousands of years have gone by, and we don't know much about the deceased's life, and (yes, three ands) no one else has any similar marking, we have no way of knowing what that MEANS.

"With your fifty dollars, we can do less in a decade than Zohran does in a single afternoon."

I'll be talking about that once I'm off work lol

Size matters.

They're from Hopi mythology.

And I don't think I've ever seen people make that particular connection before but I'm sure someone has. Usually people ranting about secret underground cities in the Grand Canyon aren't much for alleged chemical analysis abormalities, though.