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Inktober | Day 17 - Ornate

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Why did people start eating Egyptian mummies? The weird and wild ways mummy fever swept through Europe

Why did people think cannibalism was good for their health? The answer offers a glimpse into the zaniest crannies of European history, at a time when Europeans were obsessed with Egyptian mummies.

Driven first by the belief that ground-up and tinctured human remains could cure anything from bubonic plague to a headache, and then by the macabre ideas Victorian people had about after-dinner entertainment, the bandaged corpses of ancient Egyptians were the subject of fascination from the Middle Ages to the 19th century.

Faith that mummies could cure illness drove people for centuries to ingest something that tasted awful.

Mumia, the product created from mummified bodies, was a medicinal substance consumed for centuries by rich and poor, available in apothecaries' shops, and created from the remains of mummies brought from Egyptian tombs back to Europe. Read more.

[ligiathewolf]

I haven't read the book yet, but I'm really looking forward to buying it and reading it. So I made a fan art of the cover, from what it seems the book is really good and better than the series

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[emmatai88]

Swipe 👉🏼 tattoo touch to check it healed!:) Amazing artist Mumia @mumia916 awesome woman illuminati eye wings elegant back body suit slide collage!

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Free Mumia!