The Grim Delicacy of Eating Mummies | Historical Curiosities

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The noble aristocracy of Europe did indeed develop something of an appetite (at least, from a medicinal point of view) for the flesh of Egyptian mummies. And nibbling on the deceased body parts of some ancient Egyptian whose name they probably couldn’t even pronounce was indeed something all the cool kids were doing. Well, assuming you had a headache, or an infection, or a life threatening disease… or maybe you were just trying to fit it? In any case, a well-off European might not have worried, because it was nothing a little powdered skull couldn’t fix.
But what was it that would drive these ‘paragons of western society’ to indulge in what was effectively cannibalism?
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0:00 Intro
01:24 A Medicinal Curiosity
05:36 The Consumption Itself
06:58 The Mummy Trade
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  • @kirbymarchbarcena
    @kirbymarchbarcena6 ай бұрын

    EUROPEAN: I need to eat this mumia UNCLE ROGER: Haiya! No MSG!

  • @kylemorice4870

    @kylemorice4870

    3 ай бұрын

    Good one

  • @helenbekind8486
    @helenbekind84866 ай бұрын

    I saw this a while ago and wonder if this is what really started the Black Plague, Justinian Plague, and bubonic plague…the disease called KURU which comes from cannibalism is similar to those. Sores, sickness, shaking, etc.

  • @helenbekind8486

    @helenbekind8486

    6 ай бұрын

    Did you know that when he was on his deathbed, King Charles II paid Oliver Cromwell’s doctor, Jonathan Goddard, a handsome sum for the coveted formula of his drops which later came to be known as ‘King’s Drops’. The secret ingredient in this tincture? A powder consisting of five pounds of crushed human skulls. Goddard, also a chemist by profession, peddled this concoction as Goddard’s Drops, a supposed miracle cure for any and all ailments.

  • @abiimua223

    @abiimua223

    Ай бұрын

    It makes sense. Complete sense.

  • @mariasaurekksxx1788

    @mariasaurekksxx1788

    10 күн бұрын

    Wow 🤢🤮

  • @pamelacox967
    @pamelacox9676 ай бұрын

    💀☠"MUMMY MIA"☠💀

  • @NativeVsColonial

    @NativeVsColonial

    6 ай бұрын

    💀

  • @hanzohattori5908
    @hanzohattori59086 ай бұрын

    I really love your artwork ❤

  • @TheHornedKing
    @TheHornedKing6 ай бұрын

    Amazing what a simple mistranslation can lead to.

  • @julie7005
    @julie700516 күн бұрын

    Great channel! I love how you incorporate animation w historical facts to attract the youngin's

  • @robertspencer5219
    @robertspencer52196 ай бұрын

    Cannibalism was very common in Europe up to around 1900 and still practiced by a few to this day. It's also very common around the world to this day. Very sad.

  • @more17
    @more176 ай бұрын

    I just clicked the notification and I'm currently eating (pizza, not mummies). I wonder if I should wait to watch this?

  • @kimeraclan3135

    @kimeraclan3135

    6 ай бұрын

    Keep in mind that mummified Romans was also a thing!

  • @1andOnlyJDauntless
    @1andOnlyJDauntless6 ай бұрын

    Teach them of Esau-Edom.

  • @cazrealist1
    @cazrealist16 ай бұрын

    More got ground up for fertiliser there where that many at the time it was quite lucrative

  • @GODCONVOYPRIME
    @GODCONVOYPRIME6 ай бұрын

    Cats seem like they would eat more mummies let's be honest here, I mean they eat humans.

  • @maccurtis730

    @maccurtis730

    6 ай бұрын

    Cats: "We eat dead humans to protect dead humans from being eaten by live humans".

  • @ConservativePrincess
    @ConservativePrincess3 ай бұрын

    This is why we can't find mummy's in the pyramids. 😂 they ate them all

  • @wcwcwc12
    @wcwcwc126 ай бұрын

    Mummy food...sounds worse than roadkill cooking!!!

  • @GRIGGINS1

    @GRIGGINS1

    6 ай бұрын

    Europeans just lost all right to criticize any food created in the US.

  • @sw_1776
    @sw_17766 ай бұрын

    I've heard about this it was even fashionable to have mummy unwrapping parties and they even ground up mummies and sold it in a powder. History is nasty😂

  • @markperkins9445
    @markperkins94454 ай бұрын

    So cannibalism was common amoung the aristocracy? Hmmm.

  • @hothmandon
    @hothmandon4 ай бұрын

    The linen the mummy's were wrapped in was used as butcher paper for wrapping meat.

  • @shaifunnessa7816
    @shaifunnessa78166 ай бұрын

    Stephen the great Moldova biography please make video

  • @sarahbogaert6017
    @sarahbogaert6017Ай бұрын

    Sources ? I'm trying to do a comics about this phenomenon and I NEED tangible proof and Sources, the informations you are saying are important but however I can't seem to find any articles with that much details

  • @alexarnold6253
    @alexarnold62535 ай бұрын

    Im not sure why, but i scanned the title quickly and i thought it said, "historical calories"...😂😂😂

  • @-RONNIE
    @-RONNIE6 ай бұрын

    Thanks for the video they were very weird back then 🤮 cannibals is sick but eating the dead that's even worse

  • @edeliteedelite1961

    @edeliteedelite1961

    Ай бұрын

    But eating the living is a-okay

  • @AurmazlZudeh
    @AurmazlZudeh6 ай бұрын

    Would they consider themselves cannibals??

  • @maccurtis730

    @maccurtis730

    6 ай бұрын

    They would create a workaround because of feelings.

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot6 ай бұрын

    Yes it shows you how these white Europeans truly felt about Egypt.

  • @kimeraclan3135

    @kimeraclan3135

    6 ай бұрын

    Or, just how poorly documented they were on the subject. I bet King Tutankhamun's body would have been the gift that kept on giving had he been served at a party, given his curse.

  • @ebonytv3414

    @ebonytv3414

    4 ай бұрын

    And they are still poorly educated on the subject of ancient Egyptians,telling descendants they aren’t descendants…

  • @eyemunchained8968
    @eyemunchained89686 ай бұрын

    Mumia powder mixed with goat 🐐 milk = a week of essential nutrients

  • @Kingdream93
    @Kingdream936 ай бұрын

    WOW! Just when I thought I heard it all. Just when I thought nothing can surprise me i'm hearing about this. I heard of cannabilism, I even heard of people having sex with dead people I think is called necrophilia, but i've never heard of anyone eating dead people especially mummies 🤢😂 oh my God mankind is crazy.

  • @hothmandon
    @hothmandon4 ай бұрын

    I would try mummy flesh. From what I understand, it was basically jerky

  • @joshuavincent3515
    @joshuavincent35156 ай бұрын

    Oh that's what going natural means.

  • @jhonsepulvedo6750
    @jhonsepulvedo67506 ай бұрын

    Hadn't been to the channel in a while, but saw the title and subtly thought to myself "What the ****?"

  • @louielouie9768
    @louielouie97686 ай бұрын

    Absolutely disgusting

  • @caz5288
    @caz52886 ай бұрын

    I guess it's a good way to recycle your body.

  • @texmex1210
    @texmex12106 ай бұрын

    In Spanish mummy is momia

  • @buukaczi
    @buukaczi5 ай бұрын

    In the nineties when I was a kid I can remember my grandma buying "mummy in powder" on a local market from russian people

  • @buukaczi

    @buukaczi

    5 ай бұрын

    Mumja w proszku

  • @gaslitworldf.melissab2897
    @gaslitworldf.melissab28976 ай бұрын

    Funny how they didn't consider it demonic or pagan (or just nasty) to do that. Whatever the rich got up to, the church might just look the other way.

  • @rogerhinman5427
    @rogerhinman54276 ай бұрын

    God that's gross

  • @mathieuleader8601
    @mathieuleader86016 ай бұрын

    ooh pharaoh alamode yummy!

  • @TheCosmicGuy0111
    @TheCosmicGuy01116 ай бұрын

    Odd

  • @4uhDamagecase
    @4uhDamagecase6 ай бұрын

    mmm... jerky

  • @louielouie9768
    @louielouie97686 ай бұрын

    Guaranteed many ppl died from Kuru or the Laughing death, all from eating human meat 🤢🤮

  • @Jhulinare
    @Jhulinare5 ай бұрын

    Nothing is sacred to some.

  • @L1tgawd
    @L1tgawd6 ай бұрын

    Europeans were eating the corpse of mummies for 400+ years in the name of pseudoscience yet they claim to be descendants of ancient Egyptians 😂

  • @silensviator

    @silensviator

    6 ай бұрын

    I mean... you are what you eat? 😅

  • @ten-dimension9390
    @ten-dimension93903 ай бұрын

    The deceased would never have thought that Hundreds of years later someone will be enjoying their bodies in dinner

  • @merlinwizard1000
    @merlinwizard10006 ай бұрын

    44th, 4 December 2023

  • @angelas888
    @angelas8886 ай бұрын

    The thumbnail🤣🤣🤣

  • @FloridaSalon
    @FloridaSalon6 ай бұрын

    I vote freaks on the street.

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