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The original was posted on /r/todayilearned by /u/The-Mooncode on 2025-09-25 16:01:54+00:00.
Original Title: TIL that Egyptian mummies were stolen and sold in Europe as medicine. As late as 1924, Merck listed “Mumia vera aegyptica” at 12 gold marks per kilogram, which is about $500 per kilogram in today’s money.
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Mummia, because they missed translated some ancient ingredient as mummy being a piece of a mummy, it is thought it was some other shit completely. But people ate people for medical stuff all the time. You don’t want to eat somebody like cool and badass not like somebody that sucks. Redheads were good.
