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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Reminds me of the Egyptian aristocracy, they would be pissed off if they knew their 4000 yo mummy will end up getting shown at a museum or destroyed by a tomb raider. But what would happen if they managed to revive them today, probably a temporary experiment on a lab, the pharaoh just lived in a closed environment for a couple of months and for most of modern day people it would be just some science news they scrolled by on tiktok

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How about being ground up into powder and put into medicine? I'm sure they'd love that one.

[–] jenny_ball 33 points 1 month ago

or used for paint because the color is so nice

[–] kromem 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

One of the more interesting aspects of history is the progression from the notion of a very limited and inaccessible resurrection of a body to the idea of a very accessible resurrection of the spirit/mind.

The latter is IMO probably best embodied (pun intended) in one of the early Christian apocrypha from a group that was known for rejecting the canonical focus on a physical resurrection of a body:

Whoever drinks from my mouth will become like me; I myself shall become that person, and the hidden things will be revealed to him.

  • Gospel of Thomas saying 108

It's such a wild march of progress from kings trying to preserve their bodies to a tradition rejecting the Eucharist of consumption of a body in favor of a Eucharistic consumption of words and ideas to resurrect the essence of the individual.

And looking back from an age where we are literally seeing patents granted to trillion dollar companies around resurrecting the dead digitally, the "resurrection of words and ideas" crowd was more on to a practical tract of thinking than the "resurrect my goop" crowd.

In fact, the Egyptians when embalming themselves discarded their brains thinking it was garbage filling of the skull. Not exactly the best strategy in hindsight.

[–] ZILtoid1991 9 points 1 month ago

Doing a quick read up on Wikipedia, my memoories on Egyptian mummies' brains getting removed was correct. That alone would mean the best they could achieve is cloning, without any memory retention.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

destroyed by a tomb raider

And not even a sexy, big breasted one with skintight shirt and very short shorts.

[–] Rhynoplaz 2 points 1 month ago

destroyed by a tomb raider

*And not even a sexy, big POINTY breasted one with skintight shirt and very short shorts.

OG Lara, or nothing!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Most mummies we found we ate