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An interesting mummy fact: animals were mummified too. In the 1800s, an English company acquired 180,000 mummified cats and pulverized them into fertilizer.
by 29athrowaway 3y ago
An interesting mummy fact: animals were mummified too.
In the 1800s, an English company acquired 180,000 mummified cats and pulverized them into fertilizer.
- klyrs 3y agoWeirder still, they were used in pigment until astonishingly late in the last century (and a rather long time after they ran out of actual antiquities to grind). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown