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Why Are We Eating the Mummies

Why Are We Eating the Mummies

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Welcome back Strangers! Today’s episode will focus on using ancient Egyptian mummies as medicine, and the idea of “corpse medicine.” Featuring our super special guests, Frank and Sage of the Unknown, Unsolved, Unseen podcast!

**TRIGGER WARNINGS FOR THIS EPISODE**

Cannibalism, discussions of executions, old timey “medical” practices, desecration of many corpses

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References:Smithsonian Magazine: The Gruesome History of Eating Corpses as Medicine - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/

Miriam Webster: Apoplexy - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apoplexy

Miriam Webster: Bitumen - https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bitumen

Wikipedia: Usnea - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usnea

Wikipedia: Mummia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummia

Mental Floss: How an Unfortunate Misunderstanding Spawned a Medieval Mummy-Eating Fad - https://www.mentalfloss.com/history/eating-mummies-as-medicine

Science History Institute Museum and Library, Distillations Magazine: Mummies and the Usefulness of Death - https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/mummies-and-the-usefulness-of-death/

Harvard Art Museums: Mummy Brown: A Modern Pigment’s Problematic Past - https://harvardartmuseums.org/tour/770/slide/12414

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