Oiconomia@feddit.de to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoMy God, this is an outrage! I was going to eat that mummy!feddit.deimagemessage-square23fedilinkarrow-up1478arrow-down14
arrow-up1474arrow-down1imageMy God, this is an outrage! I was going to eat that mummy!feddit.deOiconomia@feddit.de to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square23fedilink
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up88·2 years agoThey also used them as paint. Mummy brown was a specific shade. The claim that they were used in train boilers is, however, a hoax perpetrated by none other than Mark Twain.
minus-squaretopinambour_rex@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30·2 years agoIt was an awesome fertilizer too. They brought them back to Europe, crushed them and turned them into powders, then used them in fields.
minus-squareSokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoThat seems like a ton of extra work and disregard for the dead, just to replace something as simple as manure, which was available in great abundance.
minus-squareSmokeyDope@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoAt least they took recycling seriously! ;)
minus-squarePlantDadManGuy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·2 years agoWhat the actual fuck. This is insane.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·2 years agoWe’re just lucky they mummified so many people or there would be nothing left to study.
They also used them as paint. Mummy brown was a specific shade.
The claim that they were used in train boilers is, however, a hoax perpetrated by none other than Mark Twain.
It was an awesome fertilizer too. They brought them back to Europe, crushed them and turned them into powders, then used them in fields.
That seems like a ton of extra work and disregard for the dead, just to replace something as simple as manure, which was available in great abundance.
At least they took recycling seriously! ;)
What the actual fuck. This is insane.
We’re just lucky they mummified so many people or there would be nothing left to study.