The Actual History of Eating Mummies as Medicine

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Did Victorians eat mummies? Why did Egyptian mummies become a popular medicine? Well, turns out we have 2 dummies to thank for their inability to correctly translate Arabic. So, let's investigate how the writings of Rhazes, Avicenna, Pliny the Elder, and Ibn Serapion the Younger got mistranslated, and the resulting fad for using mummies and medicine.

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