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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 88 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] topinambour_rex@lemmy.world 30 points 1 year ago

It was an awesome fertilizer too. They brought them back to Europe, crushed them and turned them into powders, then used them in fields.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

That 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.

[-] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

At least they took recycling seriously! ;)

[-] PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago

What the actual fuck. This is insane.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

We're just lucky they mummified so many people or there would be nothing left to study.

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