• Flying SquidM
    721·
    5 months 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.

    • PugJesusOPEnglish
      26·
      5 months ago

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

  • jaybone
    19·
    5 months ago

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

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
      30·
      5 months 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
        29·
        5 months ago

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

    • PugJesusOPEnglish
      14·
      5 months ago

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

      • snooggumsEnglish
        10·
        5 months ago

        So, the pinewood box version of mummification?

        • NegativeInf
          9·
          5 months 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.

    • AbouBenAdhemEnglish
      9·
      5 months ago

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