The real question is why?

I found it fascinating when I found out that she was lovers with Caesar and then married his second Marc Antony, before the two of them committed suicide. She wouldn’t have such a prominent place in history if it weren’t for that yet I had always assumed as a child that it was a completely different period of events.

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https://web.archive.org/web/20230202034638/https://edition.cnn.com/2023/02/01/africa/ancient-egypt-mummy-embalming-workshop-scn/index.html

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Cleopatra lived closer to the time of the Moon Landing than the building of The Pyramids

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I mean, at the end of the day we made rocks think and information travel through blinky glass strands, electric airwaves and copper wires.

200 000 years of human lifetime is a long time

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They did have some kind of paradigm. it may not have been as complex or complete as our modern study of microbiology, but it would have at least been isomorphic to the truth.

In much the same way, our modern understanding of microbiology will seem woefully inadequate to the people of the future.

That's just your humours.

Pure observation. Even if you don't have a microscope to see the bacteria, you can see(and smell) their work.

Yeah theres alot of knowledge and ancient wisdom that knew the what but didn't know they why or the right why. Makes u wonder what we think we know now but don't really.

The ancient global trade is a fascinating topic. I’d love to read a book about it.

For human?

Exactly. They knew it worked but not why in the literal sense with no paradigm of bacteria.

In the article it talks about what we used to know and what we recently discovered.

Curious how they extracted the plant oils.

They didn't know about bacteria. But they did know "this stuff works better than this stuff to preserve" through many iterations of trial and error.

So they really taught themselves about bacteria? I wonder how they found out this research

I was just on a sub talking about buying a portion of a cow and now I’m thinking of pastrami mmmm

Getting pretty hungry over here.

The real trick was salt (technically a mixture of salt and baking soda). After removing the organs and brain you’re like a rack of beef. Then they packed you in salt and all the juices drained away. All that bologna about herbs and spices was for odor control

Another fascinating detail from the article:

>While many of the substances were from across the Mediterranean, they also found residues of dammar gum and elemi resin, which likely came from the forests of southeast Asia, or possibly tropical regions of Africa.
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>This, the researchers said, revealed the long-distance exchange of goods

I had no clue their trade networks reached so far.

It's interesting to see how in-depth their research was:

>They revealed ancient Egyptians used a wide variety of substances to anoint the body after death, to reduce unpleasant smells and protect it from fungi, bacteria and putrefaction. Materials identified include plant oils such as juniper, cypress and cedar as well as resins including from pistachio trees, animal fat and beeswax.
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>Archaeologists were also able to determine which particular substances were used to preserve different body parts. (Pistachio resin and castor oil, for example, were used only for the head.)