victorianchap:Street vendor selling mummies in Egypt, 1875. Photograph by Félix Bonfils. Un
victorianchap: Street vendor selling mummies in Egypt, 1875. Photograph by Félix Bonfils. Unfortunately the Europeans at this time (1890s) had an almost insatiable appetite for purchasing these “mummies”. There was a thriving black market in mummies, which resulted in many being “faked” by digging up more recent burials and selling them, as in the hot dry atmosphere of the Egyptian deserts it was relatively easy to bury a recent corpse and let it “dry out” naturally in the sand! Mummies were also still being used in medicine, and at the turn of the 19th/20th centuries there were many new “fads” and taking ground/powdered mummy was considered by some as very beneficial! #victorianchaps #oldphoto #victorian #nostalgia #goodolddays #mummy #egypt #victorian #portrait #streetscene #retro #1870s #pastlives #history (at Egypt)https://www.instagram.com/p/CSRKoycgWp2/?utm_medium=tumblr -- source link