The Egyptian Boomerangs and Throwing Sticks of King Tut

The testing of replicas of hunting throwing sticks from King Tut's tomb in Egypt. Discussion of whether the sticks were returning boomerangs, or non returning hunting throwing sticks.

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Assassin's Creed Origins Soundtrack - Ptolemy
Composed by Sarah Schachner

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[ianbruce]

That one painting of warfare appears to depict the Khopesh--a rather unusually shaped sword, rather than a throwing stick. It has that shape and you can see a bit of the guard above the handle.

[ciprianmarele]

Beautiful video and beautiful boomerangs..may i ask you how do you tune it to fly steady and not climing to much?? Are you bending the wings of the boomerang in a negative position?

[davepowell]

Howard Carter was under financial pressure so the tomb manifest is interesting

[timapple]

@2:05 Came that close to clipping the bird! Almost one of those 'If it wasn't filmed you wouldn't believe it' moments.

[deraNdy]

Those are wonderful Build Throwsticks. I'm new to this stuff and struggling on the fine Tuning, you are talking in your video.

[mihajlogeneralovic]

I am making hunting boomerangs how do u tune it so it doesn't lift to much in the air I am having hard time tuning it down beautiful boomerangs man good job

[BAAKA]

As a Aboriginal person, we have many different shaped boomerangs for different situations, such as a normal curved boomerang for hunting bird's that's the actual one that comes back to you if you master the throwing style correctly. and The killer boomerang wich is longer and heavy but not as curved and sometimes has a hooked end could also be used as a club and thrown lower to the ground to break legs of an enemy or animals. 👍

[Relax-geuf]

boomerang designed by Australian aboriginals for hunting and fighting ancient Egyptians have travelled to Australia way before Europeans it's been scientificilly proven

[TKTrooper]

Would be interesting to learn how the construction of a throwing stick compares to the construction of a boomerang. How the way they are made differs.

[kenwebster]

Whether a boomerang returns or not, depends on the thrower. Of note is the 1st throw in the video, which did display a tendency to return. The throw was immediately modified to prevent return. If you want to prove the theory that Egyptian boomerangs were not designed to return, then you need to throw them like you would a real returning boomerang & see what results.

If the boomerang is providing lift, then throwing it with an almost vertical orientation produces lift in an almost horizontal direction, which is what makes a real returning boomerang return. I suspect that throwing an Egyptian lifting boomerang in that orientation will show that it at least has a strong tendency toward returning & therefore shorten the trip to retrieve it, because that is how the physics of flight works. Just remember that it takes the skill of an expert thrower to get even the best Australian boomerangs to return to the throwers hands.

Also, the amount of lift produced is a function of the boomerangs airfoil section and declination to the axis of rotation & geometric twist along the arms & camber line shape. Making a boomerang from diagrams that don't show this level of aerodynamic detail, proves nothing at all because you will not be duplicating the flight characteristics.

[edwardwort]

What type of wood did they/you use? Was it dense for impact (like the ivory) or light for distance?

[infinitemonkey]

Was the returning boomerang just for sport or was it also used for hunting ?

[Mack-dkeu]

As a aboriginal Australian, I can proudly say ‘real boomerang’s were for hunting food, not to be played around with like a toy’

[StephenDaviesAuthor]

What an amazing video! How did you get hold of replicas of King Tut's throwing sticks?

[abdulkabza]

Great video! May I ask what the distance in the last throw was?

[waynebow-guwr]

Not all aboriginal boomerangs returned. The yarrakilla ( something like that) boomerang was designed to go straight. So there could be a link to the 2 cultures. Which could mean australia was visited by the Egyptians thousands of years ago.