TIL that on 10th February 1890 an estimated 180,000 mummified cats, weighing 19.5 tons, were shipped from Egypt to Liverpool, auctioned, and sold for fertilizer
https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/mummified-cat-22
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https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/mummified-cat-22
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Mummified Cat
Leg and paw of a mummified cat that has been unwrapped of its bandages and broken apart. This is from the auction held in Liverpool on 10th February 1890 when an estimated 180,000 mummified cats, weighing 19.National Museums Liverpool
punIssuer •
I hate the fact that the sentence “mummies are rare because we ate them” is factual.
somewhatsociable:
I’m sorry, what?
obscuritiesoffbeat:
[1]I am so happy to be the one to introduce you to the horrible few hundred years where Europeans regularly consumed ground Egyptian mummies."
– https://neorattz.tumblr.com/post/169024856215/obscuritiesoffbeat-somewhatsociable/amp
[1] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/
obscuritiesoffbeat: somewhatsociable: ...
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