Elliott, Chris (2017). "Bandages, Bitumen, Bodies and Business – Egyptian mummies as raw materials". Aegyptiaca (1): 40–46.
replyhttps://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/aegyp/articl...
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wtf I’m going to wager that this is a local myth. Just using corpses as fuel feels a bit antithetical to human traditions
replyThe trick is to live in a white supremacist imperialist culture that barely considers such people human to begin with and couldn't care less about their traditions beyond the material value they create.
replyThey were actually eaten (in the early modern era) or ground up for paint.
replyWhite people are just so bad right? If only the brown people had taken over the world first things would be so much better and we would have never had slavery or any of that other bad white people stuff like...what exactly? Trains?
replyIs that what you tell yourself?