65: Mummies and their cursed bacteria
Update: 2023-10-31
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We've resurfaced - just in time for Halloween.
Welcome friends, as Sarah and Dr. Kelly discuss all things mummy -- the hotness in the movies, how mummies were made, why they're so cool, and the curses those hilariously macabre victorians inevitably unleashed upon our earth.
REFERENCES:
- Robbing Cleopatra's tomb- the first horror movie?
- Eyptomaaaaaania!!!!
- How we know about Egyptian mummy embalming.
- Eating mummies for fun and healing (WTF)
- The Midnight Library podcast - Corpse Medicine episode!
- The Pharoh's curse!
- The Unlucky Mummy in the British Museum (where else)
- Nautilus article on the Metagenomic Analysis of Ancient Egyptian Canopic jars
- The mummy's curse: historical cohort study
- Lord Carnarvon's Death: the curse of aspergillosis
- (why is it so hard to say tho)
- Lady Dai, the best preserved mummy ever. Warning, the photos are very real.
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