• Flying SquidM
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    691 month ago

    I worked building the Pharaoh’s pyramid for 40 years and I never missed a day of work or even showed up late. Was I bitten by scorpions? All the time. Would I have been whipped if I didn’t go work on the pyramid anyway? Of course I would.

    These kids are just soft.

  • @MutilationWave
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    271 month ago

    Pug you really come through with some of the best shit on Lemmy.

    • @PugJesusOP
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      251 month ago

      I’m just the humble delivery-boy for the memes of wittier and harder-working folks, but thank you all the same!

  • @jaybone
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    181 month 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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      271 month 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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        271 month ago

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

        • @Maalus
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          151 month ago

          Somebody needs to drive her there I assume

        • @MutilationWave
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          71 month ago

          Really laughing for the first time today thanks.

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

    • @PugJesusOP
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      141 month ago

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

      • snooggums
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        101 month ago

        So, the pinewood box version of mummification?

        • Tar_Alcaran
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          101 month ago

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

        • @NegativeInf
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          91 month 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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      91 month ago

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

  • snooggums
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    171 month ago

    Those are explanations, not excuses!

  • NegativeNullM
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    101 month ago

    That’s legitimately an amazing artifact!