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Ancient Egyptians Created "Meat Mummies" So Dead Could Continue To Eat
sciencehabit writes "What is your beloved mummy going to eat for the rest of eternity? For some ancient Egyptians, the answer included meat. In King Tutankhamun's tomb, for example, archaeologists found 48 wooden cases of butchered cuts of beef and poultry. But unlike offerings of fruit and grains, which could last for quite a while once dehydrated and placed in dry tombs, pieces of meat required special treatment. After just a few hours in the desert heat, 'they will become a terrible mess if you don't take some steps to preserve them,' says Richard Evershed, an archaeological chemist at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. The solution? Mummify. Now, a team of researchers led by Evershed is shedding light on the embalming processes used to create these so-called meat mummies, including mummified beef ribs."
Really?
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...this was lunch. Every day. I went back to the old campus recently and now it's a high end food court. The lunch ladies morphed into hot young babes.
This definitely sounds like a headline act at one of the local metal dives.
..Is there such a thin"g as healthy / organic jerky? I have to go on a long trip for the holidays and need to keep a carload of people sated.. "meat mummies" however, does not sound as appealing as "hungry man" or "Smoked Bronco Billy's", or "snackmasters" ; don't think I could convince the wife..
How do you tell the diner from the food?
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Now they can send their resumé to Con-Agra.
When people were mummified, their internal organs were put into clay pots in the sarcophagus.
So if the kings were to eat after death... where did anyone think the food was going to go?
Laughter is the Spackle of the Soul.
But the treatment process is very delicate so it's only available a few times a year.
I would eat some mummy meat. I bet it might be tasty.
Heh. In more practical terms, it would be cool to figure out what went into making this meat. We could eat ancient Egyptian meat, much in the same way that we enjoy Midas Touch from Dogfish Head Craft Brewed Ales.
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Ignorance is bliss....
Would this undermine claims on Slim Jim proprietary recipe?
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This is an outrage - I was going to eat that mummy!
I am officially gone from
...to a McDonald's near you: "Meat McMummy". And don't peal off the simulated gauze wrapping: it's edible. Yum!
In-N-Out-Mummy, Mummy King, Mummy-In-The-Box, McMummy's ...
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But What Does it Taste Like?
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Why do you insist on the Pyramids being built in a desert? Science has proven the Nile moved over time...
Why do you insist they were built by humans? We have more resources and technology than ever before in history, and it's still considered impossible...
There are people who also consider it to be impossible that the world isn't flat. The word for people like this is "idiots".
Why do you insist they were built by humans? We have more resources and technology than ever before in history, and it's still considered impossible...
Because the other explanations are 1) They were build by aliens, or (other non human earthlings) and 2) It came into existence naturally. Both are even more unlikely.
We have more resources and technology than ever before in history, and it's still considered impossible...
No, it's considered very impractical. We could fairly easily build them, it would just be expensive and take a while. The Egyptians had plenty of wealth and resources (natural, scientific, labor, and time) to build the pyramids.
Why do you insist on the Pyramids being built in a desert? Science has proven the Nile moved over time...
According to the article found here: http://ees.ac.uk/userfiles/file/EA-32pp03-05-Lutley.pdf, in the past 5k years the Nile has shifted only within the Nile floodplain, a shift of about 4 km total from West to East. Giza is located roughly 5 miles from the edge of the current path of the Nile. So, it is quite possible that the pyramids were built closer to the Nile than they are now (look at page 5 of the article). If you notice, none of the pyramids are built on the floodplain.
So, in other words, I'm not saying it was aliens, but it is pretty damn obvious the Egyptians built the pyramids.
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Well, here's some of the stuff my family used for the 8-12 hour drives to visit relatives when I was a kid:
-- Non-dense cereals (different brands/flavors to suit people) in ziploc baggies
-- Anything that can be used in a non-refrigerated brown-bag lunch works -- bring an ice chest for anything that's better when cold.
-- Cheese & deli meat safe at room temp (e.g. salami, pepperoni...)
-- Soft French bread rounds (for sandwiches or alone) & mustard
-- Large croissants (alone or sandwiches)
-- Garlic bread
-- Mozzarella "string" cheese or mozzarella balls
-- Buy pizzas & immediately cover in plastic wrap and refrigerate until cold, then cut into pieces (square pizza is easiest), wrap them individually & keep in ice chest.
-- Books/websites aimed at getting kids to start cooking always have at least a few ideas for quick &easy food/snacks you can make with little effort.
Things you or others could make relatively quickly orpossibly buy at a bakery:
-- Rum cake, pound cake, spice cake, etc.
-- Brownies (preferably using a sweet liquor like rum or kahlua; quadruple the alcohol in it so it doesn't all burn off, and you'll have some very relaxed/happy travelers without it being enough to hurt a kid or someone on medication)
-- Sweet or pizza-type focaccia, the moister the better
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There is a youtube video of a guy showing how he could have built stonehenge. It is quite interesting how with a few tricks he can move massive blocks of stones, and position them so they put upright into the ground. Everything is impossible if you do it the hard way, finding the easy way is the trick. Finding that easy way is not obvious of course. He uses everyday items like sticks and stones that prehistoric man had easy access to. The egyptians could do it even easier and had more than one guy.
not impossible at all, any competent civil engineer can tell you how to do it with or without machines.
those sensationist articles you read claiming otherwise were not written by engineers.
There is a youtube video of a guy showing how he could have built stonehenge.
Mythbusters did it too with just some 2x4s
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check out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYQBDhkBfr0
it's still considered impossible
When the Peruvians here idiots exclaiming that Machu Picchu and Sacsayhuaman must have been built by aliens because people couldn't have done it they're insulted. They know almost exactly how it was done, and their ancestors were even recorded doing it by the Spanish. Can't help but think the Egyptians might well feel similarly insulted.
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
must have found this recipe a couple of decades ago.
" After just a few hours in the desert heat, 'they will become a terrible mess if you don't take some steps to preserve them,' says Richard Evershed, an archaeological chemist at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom." I always suspected that meat might go bad under those circumstances but am so glad to see that my tax money is being used to fund a Professor (we are not worthy!) to confirm this. Does he have a citation in a peer-reviewed journal for his incredible claim though? Or is it just a wild conspiracy theory.
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Why do you insist they were built by humans? We have more resources and technology than ever before in history, and it's still considered impossible...
Where do you get the idea that the pyramids would be impossible to build today? It's just a pile of limestone blocks. People built a 6 meter pyramid using a total of only 40 something men in less than a month for an episode of NOVA, using only a few modern shortcuts (iron tools to carve and a front-end loader to transport blocks to the building site to be placed by hand after demonstrating that it was possible to move the blocks by rolling them). The only thing that makes pyramids impressive is that they were built with muscle power and no understanding of pulleys.
As for how they were constructed back then, there are a number of dominant theories, and the lack of consensus isn't because there's evidence disproving them so much as a lack of a smoking gun. Plus, there's evidence that there wasn't a consistent method and that techniques evolved over time.
Seriously, what's the alternative -- aliens? What plausible reason would aliens have to come down a build huge stone pyramids and leave not a single trace of more advanced construction materials or techniques? Why no skyscrapers? Why no reinforced concrete? Why no electrical or other fuel infrastructure? Why no plastics and no glass, even? Just overly fancy stone cairns with the corpses of rich humans stuffed inside? That's it? Insanity.
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