Mummy History: No one knows mummies better than I do!
Most of the bodies are now taken to the crematorium, where they are reduced to a bouquet of ashes. It is also considered that weight loss is successful, and you can harvest your lightest weight. But do you know which weird mummies open in a way?
(1) Medicinal use
More than 500 years ago, on the European continent, it was popular to eat mummies to strengthen the body, and the mummies that had been treated with antiseptic treatment crossed the ocean to European pharmacies, where they were dismantled and crushed by local pharmacists and ground into powder with bones. When taken by Europeans, they also use condiments to make a variety of tastes of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty.
In the eyes of Europeans 500 years ago, these powders were health care products that ate which to supplement, and they were also aphrodisiacs that promoted lust, and even a life-saving antidote. Such a feast of crazy mummies almost ate the mummies that had been excavated at that time.
At the end of the 16th century, the Egyptian government issued an urgent policy restricting the export of mummies. In the case of limited purchase sources, a large number of local imitation mummies have emerged in Europe, and for a time the mummies on the table are difficult to distinguish between true and false.
According to historians, it was later found that ancient Europeans ate mummies, most likely a oolong event. The mineral mummia is pronounced very similarly to mummy, when the Arabs used a mineral bitumen as a medicinal use, and in the era of information blockage, Europeans mistakenly believed that the Arabs used mummies for medicine, thus importing mummies in large quantities.
(2) Pigments
If you ask an 18th-century European painter, what color is the mummy? They'll laugh and tell you with a palette in their hand: Brown, of course!
Finely ground high-quality mummies are mixed with myrrh and white asphalt to make one of the best pre-Raphaelite oil paints.
The painting Inside the Kitchen makes extensive use of mummified brown, including the delicious food in the painting, which is painted with pigments mixed with powder of mummified corpses. The better the flesh of the mummy corpse, the fuller the pigment color.
In the painting world at that time, the mummy brown was a popular item, and painting with the mummy brown was the symbol of the trend!
In the mid-20th century, Egyptian mummies were once again in short supply, and after 1964, mummified brown pigments were no longer allowed to use real mummies as raw materials, but were replaced by kaolin.
(3) Waste
The return of dust to dust, the return of the earth to the soil, and the return of the human body to nature have been thoroughly studied by the British.
A British farm in the 19th century imported 19 tons of cat mummies. Farm workers break them up and sprinkle them into the fields as fertilizer, where they can decompose completely within a month when the bodies are surrounded by a large number of thermophilic bacteria. In the final stage of human decomposition, if various nutrients are added, microorganisms and bacteria can play a better role.
(4) Fuel
If you ask the 19th-century Egyptians: What kind of fire do you cook? Then this answer is likely to be a mummy. Judging from the body itself, the mummy itself is a combustible organic matter with low water content after treatment. The oil applied between the mummy bandage cloth is also a good combustible. This mummy, which can be easily lit, is more popular in the eyes of the locals than firewood
The American writer Mark Twain once joked that Egyptian trains burn mummies. Historians believe that although it can be seen as an exaggeration, it is enough to show that the Egyptians at that time did burn many mummies as firewood.
(5) Jewelry
If there is a live broadcast in Victorian Britain, then the popular jewelry of the Internet celebrity is the mummy home decoration.
At that time, people's love for mummies was sick, and according to the mummies, they could be split into a dozen parts and brought home by different fanatical fans. If you open the door of the resident's house at that time, it is likely to see all kinds of corpse "parts" hanging on the wall with an arm, a hand on the bookcase, a head in the living room, and a foot hidden in the bedroom...
The mummy was only in the hearts of the residents at that time that they were no longer the bones of their predecessors, but beautiful ornaments.
Folklore has it that the writer Flaubert loved mummified ornaments, and when writing and creating, the mummified ornaments swayed on the desk.
(6) Social
Two hundred years ago, the richest people in Europe and the United States would spend a lot of money to buy their own exclusive mummies. The Massachusetts Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine was established in the early days
He also used the Mummy Tour exhibition to meet people from all walks of life and raise many project funds for the hospital.
(7) Fake cultural relics
Using corpses to impersonate corpses is a use that the mummy herself has not thought of. In 1431, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake, and her remains were ordered to be thrown into the Seine, leaving no trace of her existence ever since. It was not until four hundred years later that a Parisian discovered a jar marked with the remains of Joan of Arc found under the burning pillar of Joan of Arc, which the Church at the time determined after some identification was indeed the remains of Joan of Arc.
It wasn't until 2007 that French scientists conducted tests to find that the remains inside the tank were not Joan of Arc, but that its real province was a human rib and a cat femur from ancient Egypt.
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