Europeans Once Ate Mummies as Medicine | #history

Between the 14th and 17th centuries, Europeans believed that powdered Egyptian mummies could heal wounds, cure headaches, and even fix broken bones. Traders ground up real mummies into a brownish powder called mumia, which people drank or rubbed on their skin as medicine. The demand became so huge that fake mummies were made from executed criminals. This is the strange, forgotten story of when Europe literally consumed the dead — in the name of health.

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