Many beliefs have spread about Egyptian mummies, and one of the most famous of these beliefs, which was the reason for the theft of many mummies from the beginning of the 16th century until the seventies of the twentieth century, is their medicinal uses in the West.
The historian "Abdul Latif Al-Baghdadi" mentioned that in this era a doctor named "Hungary" appeared who was prescribing to his patients who had skin diseases a medicine consisting of powdered bone powder from Egyptian mummies.
Also, one of the princes of Aruba, the father-in-law of the French Empress "Catherine", was suffering from epileptic fits and hysteria, and only swallowed this powder.
The drug lords in Europe also knew the importance of these mummies, so they bought them to crush their bones and mix them with heroin. For forty dollars.
The Arabs also used this powder when the tar (which is an embalming substance found in the cavity of the corpse) was scarce, and this tar was famous for treating wounds, bruises, nausea, fractures, and others.
The mummy’s meat was removed and used to paint and paint the walls, and sometimes bone powder was used as a fertilizer for agricultural land.
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