Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 3 days ago'Hot knives and brute force': King Tut's mummy was decapitated and dismembered after its historic discovery. Then, the researchers covered it up.www.livescience.comexternal-linkmessage-square8linkfedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down10
arrow-up174arrow-down1external-link'Hot knives and brute force': King Tut's mummy was decapitated and dismembered after its historic discovery. Then, the researchers covered it up.www.livescience.comLee Duna@lemmy.nz to Archaeology@mander.xyzEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square8linkfedilink
minus-squareCompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·3 days agoMummy craze was wild. People were eating them as medicine, and they were viewed as a collector item. Egypt was ransacked over decades of colonialism. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/
Mummy craze was wild. People were eating them as medicine, and they were viewed as a collector item. Egypt was ransacked over decades of colonialism.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/