
Corpse Medicine: Eating Egyptian Mummies
From After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal
Published 8/29/2024

From After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal
Published 8/29/2024
A skull a day! People ate people in the name of medicine across Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. Charles II kept powdered skull in a bag on his belt and mummified corpses were the greatest cure of all... but why? Maddy Pelling and Anthony Delaney visit the apothecary with guide Hannah Slajus,…