Everyone rots eventually? Or do they? 

In this episode we talk about body preservation techniques throughout history. Ancient cultures like the Egyptians and Arabians had unique body preservation techniques that mimicked human jerky and sickeningly sweet human rock candy. Leonardo da Vinci even performed embalmings on cadavers in pursuit of perfecting his art. And good ole Abraham Lincoln might have been responsible for the rise of the Industrial Death Complex during the Civil War. 

 

Music: Intro: The Worms Crawl In by JackHunterMusic & Outro by Epidemic Sound Ghosted SOOP.

 

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Source : http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/staff/resources/discussions/d10/home.html

Source: https://www.everplans.com/articles/the-embalming-process-explicit#:~:text=Using%20the%20trocar%2C%20organs%20in,the%20body%20is%20fully%20embalmed.

Source: https://www.si.edu/spotlight/ancient-egypt/mummies

Source: https://www.funeralguide.com/blog/history-of-embalming

Source: Arsenic Fact Sheet - Georgia Project WET

https://projectwet.georgia.gov

 

Source : https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/could-water-cremation-become-the-new-american-way-of-death-180980479/

 

Source : hhttps://www.everplans.com/articles/the-embalming-process-explicit

Source ttps://www.worldhistory.org/article/1026/clergy-priests--priestesses-in-ancient-egypt/

 

Source : https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/out-of-eden-walk/articles/2015-05-honey-im-dead/

 

Source:

https://gizmodo.com/five-crazy-ways-humans-have-preserved-their-bodies-thro-1737362333

 

Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3931544/

 

Source: Book-"Over My Dead Body" : Unearthing the Hidden History of America’s Cemeteries, Greg Millville, Abrams Press, New York 2022.

 

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