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> Rather than pushing forward and destroying everything In the early days they wouldn't have accomplished anything by pushing forward, so it doesn't take all t
by unsupp0rted 3y ago
> Rather than pushing forward and destroying everything
In the early days they wouldn't have accomplished anything by pushing forward, so it doesn't take all that much restraint.
I'm more impressed by people in, say, the 1990s or early 2000s. They might've had a shot but there was still too much risk, so they restrained themselves until it was a safer bet.
- gwern 3y agoYeah, I can't give the King's men much credit here. They destroyed a lot of scrolls, and it was only because they weren't getting much of anything that they stopped and abandoned excavations or focused on digging out sculptures they could show off (many now in the Getty Museum - great museum, but I did feel a bit melancholy thinking about the scrolls while I was there in 2019).
- klyrs 3y agoOn the other hand, we ground up mummies for paint to the point that we ran out and used fresher corpses to meet demand. It is a bit of miracle that they were preserved, and not just discarded.
- wayvey 3y agoWhere can I read more about this? Frankly I'm a bit surprised that I've never heard about this considering how shocking it sounds.
- klyrs 3y agoWild, isn't it? Hands down my favorite historical fact learned in 2023. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown
- aruggirello 3y agoWild? Wait until you read about people actually eating mummies and corpses https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mummy-eating-medical-cannibalism-gory-history https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/mummy-eat...
- klyrs 3y agoWow. I like aged cheese but that is a bridge too far.
- boffinAudio 3y agoThe things Futurama made me look up on Wikipedia...
- ska 3y agoWorse than that, lots were ground up (and consumed) for medicines.
- UberFly 3y agoIn one of the Futurama episodes, Fry eats one of Farnsworth's mini mummies and Farnsworth is upset because he wanted to eat it. Fry said it tasted like jerky I think.