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

  • Written by Marcus Harmes, Professor in Pathways Education, University of Southern Queensland
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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...

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