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And there was this idea that was generated in England at the time, particularly England, it was elsewhere in the world but mainly in England, that mummies, powdered up mummies, you take the mummies remains and powder them up, put them in drinks and use them as salves and various ointments that had some medicinal benefits to it. Well that's just nonsense. In doing that, a lot of tombs were looted, a lot of these mummies had held incredible amounts of historical information that was lost due to destruction, but people were making lots of money out of that, making these concoctions, these phony concoctions that people thought were actually beneficial to their health. So a lot of historical things were lost there that will never be retrieved.