@lmriviere: The Dark History of Mummy Eating⚰️🍽️🤢 If you want to know what happened to many of the royal mummies looted from the Valley of the Kings in Egypt… you might be surprised to learn there’s a good chance they were eaten… #darkhistory #mummies #mummia #historytok #BookTok

K.P Fantasy Author/Artist 🔮🪡 :

"we ate them" hol up whats this WE stuff

Sam :

What is wrong with humans? Seriously.

Robin| Lifestyle•Wellness•Hair :

Adolins Girl :

😳😳😳 this is so horrifying on so many levels.

ZacktheeGhoul🇿🇦 :

I believe the word mummia resulted from a mistranslation of an Arabic panacea, which proved ruinous for Egyptology

✨mystine✨🐦‍⬛ :

It’s so gross!! I can’t believe they did that

Rae Harding- SFF & Horror🪶📚 :

Right? This was wild!

ChildFree Heathen Sasshole📚💙 :

We did what? Again, you have the best content 🔥

Mairna Raspberry :

What?? This is so horrifying. On variety of fronts.

Carina Singh :

And dinosaur bones

Douglas :

🥰

CoastalSageRituals :

🤯

marco :

😂

🦕 :

😳

N. V. Haskell :

I knew about the pigment but not about the consumption 🤢.

lmriviere :

Disclaimers: not a historian or a folklorist. Just an author with a library card and a rabbit hole problem. ✨✨✨ Sources: Ambroise Paré, “On Mumia and the Anthropophagi,” in The Works of Ambroise Paré — early modern medical critique of corpse-medicine. Sir Thomas Browne, Hydriotaphia, or Urn-Burial (1658) — “Mummy is become merchandise” observation; context for funerary ethics. Richard Sugg, Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires: The History of Corpse Medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians (2011) — comprehensive survey of European mummia, skull, fat, and blood remedies. Christina Riggs, Unwrapping Ancient Egypt (2014); Egyptomania (2020) — documented mummy unwrappings, collecting culture, and their impact on Egyptology. Philip Ball, Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color (2001) — composition and art-historical use of Mummy Brown by 19th-century colormen. Victoria Finlay, Color: A Natural History of the Palette (2002) — trade anecdotes and supplier notes on Mummy Brown in Victorian palettes. Salima Ikram & Aidan Dodson, The Mummy in Ancient Egypt (1998) — technical overview of embalming methods (natron, resins, waxes, limited bitumen). R. P. Evershed & S. A. Buckley (selected analytical studies, 1990s–2010s) — biomolecular evidence identifying plant resins, oils, waxes, animal fats, and occasionally bitumen in embalming balms; variation by period. Encyclopaedia Britannica, entries “Mummy” and “Mumia” — etymology (mūmiyāʼ as bitumen), history of medicinal use, and later abandonment.

OP :

Delicious mummy dust!

Raven 🐦‍⬛ BreakHaven 💀 :

why did my dumbass just think mummies were rare because it was only for wealthy or high status? 🤦🏻 oh American education in Catholic schools totally isn't biased at all

✨mystine✨🐦‍⬛ :

I thought you said “a b*tchin asphalt mixture” 🤣🤣🤣 ❤️❤️