A street vendor selling mummies in Egypt, ca.1865

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[–]FormosaOolong 5 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Wow, that's absolutely wild! I worked at a natural history museum one summer and there was a storage room stockpiled with "artifacts" no one will ever see. There was a whole section stuffed with the mummified remains of african babies. Shudder. The spoils of "civilization."

[–]useless_aether[S] 6 insightful - 2 fun6 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

powdered mummies were totally used as medicine not that long ago

[–]JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I also heard that recently. I forget where.