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Ancient cheese with a deadly disease
Ancient cheese with a deadly disease
Ancient cheese with a deadly disease
Uhh, the point of archeology is wearing cool outfits and escaping devious mechanical traps, obviously.
Can probably just cut the rotten part off the top and the rest should be fine…
You can eat the mummies tho
I prefer making them into paint.
Mummy Brown? Huh, wonder where they got that name from.
MAY be?
It might also be delicious and there’s only one way to find out for certain
you link a picture of the tweet, but not the article?
what disease is it…
The honey is good. Archeologists have found 3000 year old honey that’s perfectly edible.
Well…
My mother, who believes in never, ever throwing food away until you can actually see the mold growing, bought a giant plastic jug of honey that she used for most of my childhood. It got sludgier and sludgier as the sugars solidified. Eventually, you could only get it liquid enough to use if you put it in the microwave for a while. And then, even that didn’t work and it was basically just a solid mass of amber sugar gunk.
So I always found that story hard to buy and now I know it wasn’t true. Thanks.
Crystalized honey is still good! Crystalization is a natural occurrence for honey. Just needs to be heated to be liquid again – though some people actually prefer it crystalized because they can spread it with a butter knife
No amount of heating made it liquid again after a few years.
Honestly the French would probably still have a go at it.
Skin chips! There’s still mummia for all your cannibalistic cravings.
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Insane that this lead to and crossed the age of colonialism right? Super bright people, the lot of us.
The usage of mumiya as medicine began with the famous Persian mumiya black pissasphalt remedy for wounds and fractures, which was confused with similarly appearing black bituminous materials used in Egyptian mummification. This was misinterpreted by Medieval Latin translators to mean whole mummies. Starting in the 12th century and continuing until as far as the 19th century, mummies and bitumen from mummies would be central in European medicine and art, as well as Egyptian trade.
After Egypt banned the shipment of mummia in the 16th century, unscrupulous European apothecaries began to sell fraudulent mummia prepared by embalming and desiccating fresh corpses.
Unscrupulous European apothecaries began to sell fraudulent mummia prepared by embalming and desiccating fresh corpses.
Dr. Phibes learned the tools of the trade from one of these apothecaries.
That made me want to watch the movie again. I checked YouTube and, lo and behold:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_znqhYKGUY
Every so often, the internet doesn’t suck.
Cool - I’m also watching again and I’m sure I’ll get goosebumps again, when he tells Dr. Vesalius “I am already dead”.
Wonderful
You can do anything once.
You might die, but you can do it once.
You can eat the bog butter though.
And the mammoth carcass.
We’re talking about archaeology not paleontology.
Tosh just had an astronaut on his podcast. He said they grew romaine lettuce in space, but NASA told them not to eat them because NASA wanted to test them for microbials.
The astronauts ate the lettuce anyway. I’m thinking someone might have took the chance and tried ancient cheese or honey. I know I would have, but I might have been dead too.
The real pharaoh’s curse is the cheese we find along the way
