Submitted 6 days ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to archaeology@mander.xyz
This is the rationale for not opening known tombs.
It’s not that we don’t want to see inside, we definitely do.
It’s just that we wouldn’t really gain anything right now, but 20-40 years from now we’ll have better tech. So it makes sense to “save” some for later instead of opening them all at once
Well yea, decapitating the body is “how to deal with the undead” 101
You know that the whole thing about King Tut’s curse makes a lot more sense now.
They were like, “Don’t open this sarcophagus. Don’t release this mummy.” And they’re like, “Not only are we gonna do that, we’re gonna fucking decapitate him. We’re gonna decapitate the king that you buried so ceremoniously with billions of dollars worth of gold and spices and slaves.”
I sorta wonder if cyrogenic corpses will end up something like this.
Apparently they just turn to goo.
yeah im just not sure how long the dewers will last if not topped up. Like long enough to be considered something like this and they top them up and display in future museusm. lol. they thought they could be resucitated. stupid twentieth centuriers.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
Mummy craze was wild. People were eating them as medicine, and they were viewed as a collector item
smithsonianmag.com/…/the-gruesome-history-of-eati…