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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.
It was an awesome fertilizer too. They brought them back to Europe, crushed them and turned them into powders, then used them in fields.
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.
At least they took recycling seriously! ;)
What the actual fuck. This is insane.
We're just lucky they mummified so many people or there would be nothing left to study.