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The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

When Mummymania Swept the World

The Disappearing Spoon: a science history podcast with Sam Kean

Sam Kean

Arts, Books, History

41.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

In the 1800s, mummies found their way into everything from fertilizer to food, and were especially prized as medicine. Mummymania was a strange time...



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People in the crowd were pretty skeptical.

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It was February 10th, 1890 in Liverpool, England. And there were rumors sweeping through town that a ship had just arrived from Egypt, full of mummies.

1:10.0

There were even claims that the crew planned to auction the mummies off. It was preposterous.

1:16.2

But to people shock, the rumors turned out to be true.

1:20.4

The crew started unloading sacks from the Holt, and when a sailor reached inside one, he produced the mummy of a cat.

1:28.0

And not just one mummy, there were 30 or 40 cat mummies in that sack.

1:33.2

And there wasn't just one sack.

1:35.0

There were hundreds of them, perhaps thousands.

1:38.4

That steam ship arrived in Liverpool with 19.

1:41.2

A half tons of mummies on board, some 180,000 of them.

1:47.0

And just like the rumors promised, the crew proceeded to auction them off,

1:51.0

like they were bags of potatoes or something.

1:53.7

So what the heck was happening?

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