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.
88 0 ReplyIt was an awesome fertilizer too. They brought them back to Europe, crushed them and turned them into powders, then used them in fields.
30 0 ReplyThat 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.
4 0 ReplyAt least they took recycling seriously! ;)
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What the actual fuck. This is insane.
25 0 ReplyWe're just lucky they mummified so many people or there would be nothing left to study.
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81 0 ReplyHe's teriyaki style!
31 0 ReplyHuh, well now I get this joke.
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I can totally imagine some rich dudes back in the day goin' all "acquired taste" over mummies.
36 1 ReplyThis 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.
14 0 ReplySometimes, though, it involved a lot more planning
10 0 ReplyDidn't they also make a weirdly specific paint color from mummies?
10 0 ReplyReading 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"
18 0 Replyhttps://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. 😂
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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?
5 0 ReplyAt 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.
4 0 ReplyYummy!
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