Submitted 1 week ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Though they do have that nice spicy scent, akin to incense you’d smell at a Catholic Church, there is defo a hint of dry rot.
I don’t mind the sun sometimes, the hieroglyphs it shows,
I can taste you on my lips and smell you in my gauze,
Cinnamon and sugary and softly mummified guys,
You never know just how to look through all-seeing Horus eyes.
There’s a place for you in the valley of poets
How do they feel when you roll them under your tongue?
Do not leave archeologists or geologists alone with a mummy.
Or any kind of Englishman.
I was going to eat that mummy! 😠
Oh good, I was worried.
The intoxicating aroma of ancient microbes you aren’t immune to.
when I die I better be buried with some awesome cologne like these mummies!
Can I get this as a perfume? Maybe Axe could do a thing?
Axe: Spicy Pharaoh
Relevant Smithsonian article.
I’d probably skip on the animal fat and bitumen, but cedar, juniper, and cypress all smell pretty good.
Apparently the scent could also vary slightly depending on who was being embalmed.
i dunno, musky scents like that do have their place in the perfume world, in moderation.
Well and good but how is Kasparov and his lilac marigolds anything to do with it.
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
The British urge to eat mummies still going strong
TheFogan@programming.dev 1 week ago
My god this is an outrage, I was going to eat that mummy! Fry has got to go!
conc@lemmy.ml 1 week ago
Described by William Dampier, a 17th-century British pirate as “extraordinary large and fat, and so sweet, that no pullet eats more pleasantly”.
lemming@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Well, they were eaten as medicine for centuries. Not to mention as a paint and possibly for fires…
BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 1 week ago
Cat mummies have been used as fertilizer too.