Creepy Facts About Mummies You Didn’t Know

Mummies in ancient Egypt were buried together with a Book of the Dead. The book consisted of several magic spells intended to assist a dead person’s journey through the Duat, or underworld, and into the afterlife.

Medical cannibalism was a medical practice in Europe between the 15th and 17th centuries, in which mummies were imported to Europe from Egypt and consumed as curatives. When mummies became scarce, fresh corpses were consumed.