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People used to eat mummies for health

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King Francis I of France carried ground up mummy with him at all times in case of emergency. That's because mummy was widely used medicinally for thousands of years. 

Kathryn Hunt is a Bioarchaeologist who recently was awarded a TED fellowship for her work as a paleo-oncologist. She explained to us how the medical use of mummies paired with later Egyptomania resulted in the loss of millions of mummies.

Produced by Grace Raver and Christine Nguyen

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