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Honeygloom's avatar

That’s amazing😆 I’m not even going to lie I tried to find it online and I couldn’t. BUT(T) I did learn that most mummies had their intestines removed through a trans abdominal slit, unless they were wealthy, then the cut was through the anus. So the mummified bum you saw might have been from an economically disadvantaged mummy if the anus was intact.

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Are you calling my mummy a slovenly no-account bum?

To be absolutely accurate, it wasn't a mummy at all but a bog person who'd been dessicated and preserved in peat by the acidity of the soil.

Some Irish no-goodnik and most probably my ancestor if the extreme misfortune of being drowned in a bog is anything to judge by.

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Honeygloom's avatar

Ooo bog bodies are so cool!! I just listened to a podcast about them, the Old Croghan Man is probably one of the most amazing and disturbing things I’ve ever seen.

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

The one I'm talking about is nearby, Gallagh man, maybe a long-lost Gallagher brother.

The National Museum in Dublin is well worth a visit for all the bog fellas, not to mention the Celtic jewellery - nearby in the National Library is the Book of Kells

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