Mummy – Body, Antiquity, or Medicine?
In the Renaissance Europe, along with the keen admiration for Egyptian antiquities, a custom has been recorded of production and consumption of a powder healing a number of ailments, produced by grating mummies. The practice extended into the 20th century. The belief in the remedial effects of this...
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University of Belgrade
2017-09-01
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| Series: | Etnoantropološki Problemi |
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| Online Access: | http://www.eap-iea.org/index.php/eap/article/view/286 |