Or worse, for centuries mummies were ground into powder for “medicine” or pigmen...

		masklinn 26 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus is unearthed in B... Or worse, for centuries mummies were ground into powder for “medicine” or pigments, during the Egyptology craze hundred of mummies were unwrapped and destroyed for the idle curiosity and entertainment of aristocrats, and tens of thousands of cat mummies are attested being used as fertiliser.

Or literally used as firewood to power steam engines