Re:Archaeologists rebury ‘first-of-its-kind’ Roman villa
by JoeAltmaier on Thursday August 11, 2022 @07:51AM
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That was callous, to be sure. But remember, mummies were being ground into fertilizer at an industrial scale. Or so I remember. Egyptians were often little more respectful of their history than outsiders.
"By the 19th century, people were no longer consuming mummies to cure illness but Victorians were hosting "unwrapping parties" where Egyptian corpses would be unwrapped for entertainment at private parties."