On their 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago page, Scientific American has this piece in the February edition, dating to February 1856: "The mummiesof Egypt are sometimes qurried by the Arabs for fuel, and, wheter those of the pharaohs, their wives, their priests, or their slaves, are split open and chopped up iwth the same indfference as so many pine logs. The gums and balsams used in embalming tham have made them a good substitute for bituminous coal; and thus the very means employed to preserve them have become the active agents fo their dissipation".
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