LOL! This is a Victorians hate post that starts with someone who want to kick a Victorian every time they see a picture of super shiny, polished armor. Victorians literally whitewashed history:
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What the f*ck do they mean by that? Well, simply, powdered mummy became an extremely expensive alchemical ingredient used in health tonics to extend the drinker’s life – a practice which was widely embraced by those in high society. They honestly believed that if mummification was able to preserve the remains of the dead over thousands of years, it must possess preservative powers for the living. And so, they powdered the Egyptian mummies up, and drank them in patented potions designed to extend their lives.
In essence, Victorian high society had no problem with cannibalism, provided it was FASHIONABLE cannibalism. And provided you didn’t talk about it – because that would be a morbid fancy indicative of poor morality or a diminished brain. Shrunken heads, for instance, were morbid and cool, and something to own if you really wanted to show how cultured you were – but how dare you speak about why there were so many of them available all of a sudden…
The Victorians were all too quick to attribute ghastly and grizzly practices to others to show their own superiority over them, whether those practices were actually a reality or not. But they simply would not tolerate anyone holding a mirror to their own gruesome endeavours to show them how truly superior they weren’t. They imagined evil of others, and paid others for evil work, but they would never accept that this made them in any sense evil themselves. They were blessed and pure and righteous, you see, despite the starving in their streets, the hypocrisy of their ‘nobility’, the injustices of their laws and legal system, and the cruelty they inflicted on minority populations within their Empire.
Oh yes, the Victorians painted a perfect image of their society for all to see, and sold that image far and wide. But that paint was a thin varnish over the black-hearted, wantonly cruel truth of their Empire, and not by any means the truth itself. The only nobility they could truly boast was that they didn’t officially keep slaves. Unofficially, of course, they made slaves of ordinary working-class citizens all too often.
Mummy powder was supposed to magical or medicinal. plus literally tons of animal mummies were burned as locomotive fuel in Egypt.
Throw in that they vandalized the Elgin Marbles (they had nipples!) and you have quite a few things to hate them over.
Remember, the only reason the Sphinx is in Giza is because it wouldn’t fit in the Royal Museum.