Season 1 · Episode 16
Mummy's Day
a special episode on the desiccated dead
May 15, 201838m 15s
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Show Notes
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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