• @jaybone
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    185 days ago

    Had to check if this was the onion. Did they mummify just anybody? I thought they was reserved for rich people.

    • Tar_Alcaran
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      264 days ago

      According to wikipedia:

      The third and least expensive method the embalmers offered was to clear the intestines with an unnamed liquid, injected as an enema. The body was then placed in natron for seventy days and returned to the family. Herodotus gives no further details.

      • @jaybone
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        264 days ago

        This fool takin’ time off work to watch his dead mom get an enema with an unnamed liquid?

        • @Maalus
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          144 days ago

          Somebody needs to drive her there I assume

      • Final Remix
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        4 days ago

        Rinse 'em out, give 'em back. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @PugJesusOP
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      135 days ago

      Poorer folk would get less elaborate versions of the same process, essentially.

      • snooggums
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        104 days ago

        So, the pinewood box version of mummification?

        • Tar_Alcaran
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          104 days ago

          They used terracotta coffins, which is basically the cardboard coffin compared to a natural stone one.

        • @NegativeInf
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          94 days ago

          Yes. And the pinewood box version of a pyramid. Mid range was a tiny pyramid. Low end was a ditch covered with a rock and a pile of sand.

          Idk. I’m not an archeologist.

    • @AbouBenAdhem
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      94 days ago

      Maybe the “workers” in this case are actually the Pharaoh’s ministers who don’t want to come to court.