Creepy Facts About Mummies You Didn’t Know

Egyptian human mummies have been used as fertilizer, to thatch roofs, and their wrappings have been used as gift wrap for centuries.

Word mummy derives from the Arabic word “mumiya,” a substance that was used as a medicine. Bitumen, another substance used in process of mummification had a similar name “Mumia”. Europeans confused the words and thought “mumiya” refers to real mummies and thus started eating mummies as medicine.