• 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.

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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?