KhAnubis | Why People Used to Eat Mummies @KhAnubis | Uploaded October 2021 | Updated October 2024, 12 hours ago.
Mummies are a go-to symbol of Ancient Egypt, but how and why were they made... and why did medieval Europeans grind them up and eat them?
Thanks to @PatKellyTeaches for cameoing in this video!

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📖 SOURCES:
historyextra.com/period/ancient-egypt/why-egyptians-mummifed-dead-bodies-mummy-leave-heart-body
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptology
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy#Treatment_of_ancient_mummies_in_modern_times
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummia
e-ir.info/2017/06/16/informal-colonialism-of-egyptology-the-french-expedition-to-the-security-state
medicalnewstoday.com/articles/mumia-the-strange-history-of-human-remains-as-medicine#A-liquament-of-carcases
smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284
nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2019/12/europes-morbid-mummy-craze-has-been-obsession-centuries
atlasobscura.com/articles/victorian-party-people-unrolled-mummies-for-fun

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