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May 15, 2018 38 min

Mummy's Day

from Your Brain on Facts Hosted by Moxie LaBouche

In this episode, we cover the way people in Victorian Europe used (and abused) Egyptian mummies, whether or not mummies were burned for fuel, Catholic saints who do not decay, natural mummies preserved in ice, moss, and salt, child mummies of the Andes, and Buddhist monk mummifying themselves.

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