Comment by GnarfGnarf
4 hours ago
It’s heartbreaking to think of what treasures were lost when they were using mummies as locomotive fuel in the 19th century.
4 hours ago
It’s heartbreaking to think of what treasures were lost when they were using mummies as locomotive fuel in the 19th century.
Elliott, Chris (2017). "Bandages, Bitumen, Bodies and Business – Egyptian mummies as raw materials". Aegyptiaca (1): 40–46.
https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/aegyp/articl...
Also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown
wtf I’m going to wager that this is a local myth. Just using corpses as fuel feels a bit antithetical to human traditions
They were actually eaten (in the early modern era) or ground up for paint.