• jaybone@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Had to check if this was the onion. Did they mummify just anybody? I thought they was reserved for rich people.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      According to wikipedia:

      The third and least expensive method the embalmers offered was to clear the intestines with an unnamed liquid, injected as an enema. The body was then placed in natron for seventy days and returned to the family. Herodotus gives no further details.

      • jaybone@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        This fool takin’ time off work to watch his dead mom get an enema with an unnamed liquid?