65: Mummies and their cursed bacteria

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 unlucky mummy psychology.
• 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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