r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/nweeeera • 27d ago

Every stolen artifact needs to come back to its land. Video

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u/crunchypuddle 26d ago

Since the 12th century, Europeans had been eating Egyptian mummies as medicine. In later centuries unmummified corpses were passed off as mummy medicine, and eventually some Europeans no longer cared whether the bodies they were ingesting had been mummified or not.

Jesus Christ.

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u/Frydendahl 26d ago

Jesus Christ.

Pretty apt, seeing as how Catholics eat Jesus' body once a week at the communion. Turns out it's always been about the cannabalizi

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u/ztunytsur 26d ago

Jesus Christ

Yeah. Catholics still eat that fucker* and encourage their kids to do it. Monsters.

*symbolically... But still

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u/db_admin 26d ago

What a trip that article was - thanks! The best part was Tutan-Alan