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.
“Oh my God he ate Mummy”
For all the Peep show fans.
Naughty slutty mummy
Oh wow what a reference
perhaps these were the business secrets of the pharaohs
Eating the rich!
Redistributing the wealth!
I can totally imagine some rich dudes back in the day goin’ all “acquired taste” over mummies.
This is one of those times when I want to grab everyone involved by the collar, shake them violently, and demand to know what they were thinking.
Didn’t they also make a weirdly specific paint color from mummies?
Reading the wikipedia and switching the words “mummy brown” with “human remains” makes it sound metal af
“Martin Drolling’s Interior of a Kitchen is believed to have been painted with an extensive use of human remains”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown
Compendium of Colors […] proclaimed that the finest brown […] "is the flesh of mummy, the most fleshy are the best parts.
People are wild. 😂
Sometimes, though, it involved a lot more planning
See I miss when I thought this was some weird quirky future thing that Futurama made up, but no, why the fuck would anyone think it was a good idea to eat million year old dead people?
Yummy!
At least they were eating the least scary version of the dead. It’s a lot loss frightening when the zombie you’re consuming decides to stand up, but is covered from head to toe in toilet paper. Like, come on.
