Medicine and linguistics come together to create an unlikely event: medical cannibalism! Once upon a time, Europeans were eating mummies by the ton. Real mummies. Fake mummies. All sorts! And all for the health benefits of... dead bodies?

CW: Death, Dead Bodies, Desecration of Corpses, War

Music provided by Dark Fantasy Studios. [License]

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