I want to know what was running through the mind of the first guy who thought up mummies. Some guy just came along and said "You know what we need? Dead bodies to last longer! C’mon, who’s with me?”
We might need them to still look good in case they DO reanimate, or maybe Picture Day in the afterlife?
I wonder how much time it took from the proof of concept to the first successful mummification? Trial and error and such. And how did they quantify a success? Dig them up every year to check?
@dukethorion@lemmy.world I really don’t know, so this is just idle speculation, but I wonder if seeing bodies come out of the sand all fucked up made people want to be preserved, but with dignity, rather than be a desiccated corpse, lost in the sand or rotting