Ancient MP3 Players by in Uncategorized / October 14th, 2007
Ancient Flying Machines aren’t the only interesting things you can find on the walls in Egypt. There is strong evidence that the land of the Pharaohs also had a thriving MP3 player market. PTTBT’s resident Egyptologist Dr. Rachel Landingham explains one of the most enduring mysteries of the Nile…
This hieroglyphic detail from the Temple of Horus depicts what modern scholars call “The Little Birdie’s Quest for Tunes”. It was carved in c.3500 BC by a scribe who appears to have had ADD, because he keeps changing subjects mid-column. Here is how the story goes:
The Little Birdie saw someone using a new iPhone in the market, and was intrigued.
He looked in his Best Buy catalogue at home and saw there was a sale going on that week, so he headed down to the Pyramid SuperStore to check them out.
There were many MP3 players, and he examined them all. He carefully examined the iPod line because all the other living gods had them.
The iPod: No wireless, less space than a Nomad… lame.
The Little Birdie settled on the Zune because it was the colour of the earth and he liked squirting things too.
But he was the only one.
The rest of the story is spread out across four more walls in the temple, and covers the story of how the Pharaoh discovered Little Birdie was using an ugly brown MP3 player and had him executed, and how the Birdie was not allowed into the afterlife with the thing because Anubis was an Apple fanboy.
Photo Credit: Original photograph courtesy of Dustin P Smith. Many apologies, Mr Smith.
