In 19th century British Empire was looting bones across the world to make fertilizer out of them. For example why battlefield of Waterloo is absent of bones.

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• deathmetal27@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Didn’t they also grind mummies to powder?

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  • NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    To snort it. Some things never change.

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  • Wrufieotnak@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes, named mummy brown if used as colour pigment or mummia if used as “medicine”.

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