alt Hacker NewsIt’s heartbreaking to think of what treasures were lost when they were using mummies as locomotive fuel in the 19th century.
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sashank_1509 • today at 9:37 AM
wtf I’m going to wager that this is a local myth. Just using corpses as fuel feels a bit antithetical to human traditions
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Elliott, Chris (2017). "Bandages, Bitumen, Bodies and Business – Egyptian mummies as raw materials". Aegyptiaca (1): 40–46.
https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/aegyp/articl...
Also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown