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.
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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.
He's teriyaki style!
Huh, well now I get this joke.
I can totally imagine some rich dudes back in the day goin' all "acquired taste" over mummies.
This is one of those times when I want to grab everyone involved by the collar, shake them violently, and demand to know what they were thinking.
Didn't they also make a weirdly specific paint color from mummies?
Reading the wikipedia and switching the words "mummy brown" with "human remains" makes it sound metal af
"Martin Drolling's Interior of a Kitchen is believed to have been painted with an extensive use of human remains"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown
Compendium of Colors [...] proclaimed that the finest brown [...] "is the flesh of mummy, the most fleshy are the best parts.
People are wild. 😂
See I miss when I thought this was some weird quirky future thing that Futurama made up, but no, why the fuck would anyone think it was a good idea to eat million year old dead people?
At least they were eating the least scary version of the dead. It's a lot loss frightening when the zombie you're consuming decides to stand up, but is covered from head to toe in toilet paper. Like, come on.
Yummy!