Don't Drink the Mummy Juice!
A few weeks ago I heard about the discovery of an ancient mummy sarcophagus in Alexandria Egypt.
“The sarcophagus, which is nearly 9 feet long, 5 feet wide and 6 feet tall (2.7 by 1.5 by 1.8 meters) — the largest found in Alexandria — was discovered with a thick layer of mortar covering much of it, Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, said in a statement released by Egypt’s antiquities ministry. It was the biggest ever discovered in the area.”
It was found on purpose as there was some construction going on in the area and archeologists wanted to sift through it.
“A ministry official, Aiman Ashmawy Ali, told CNN that the sarcophagus had been found in a previously unexcavated section of one of Alexandria’s largest ancient cemeteries.”
It was surrounded in a layer of mortar which implied it had not been disturbed in thousands of years. The first thing found was an alabaster bust of what is assumed to be the inhabitant of the tomb although it was too worn to make out who it was
It could be the lost tomb of Alexandar the Great.
Or the super weird and possible alien, King Amukanaten.
The internet feasted on this news like hungry locusts and before you can say seven plagues, rumors of a curse flowed from the internet like rivers of blood.
After some debate, on July 19th, the sarcophagus was opened. Inside, there was not a single mummy... there was three, and they were floating in horrifying, disgusting sludge water.
Credit: Courtesy Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities.
There still some debate on why horror sludge is even there to begin with. Theories are ranging from "mummy juice" from the corpses decaying, to water seepage. There are reasons why those theories don't cut the mustard. Things like the fact that mummies are dried out and don't rot, and there was no other evidence of water leaking in.
In any event, the horror sludge is there and rendered the mummies unrecognizable. Although there are still some clues as to who's inside.
“One of the mummies had a trace of an arrow in the head,” “It proves he died in a conflict. Maybe that explains three mummies in one big sarcophagus. ”
Whats more surprising; or perhaps not surprising considering the times in which we now live is, there is has been a petition online for a daring person to drink the mummy-juice!
Yes, that's the world of 2018 folks. A forgotten Egyptian tomb is uncovered. Underwhelmed at the curses that brought forth, an odd person drinks the mummy juice and... so begins zombie doom? Seven plagues? So far it's too to soon say.
Hacky Hollywood writers couldn't come up with this stuff.
I love the formality of starting a petition for such a venture as mummy juice drinking.
“The petition has drawn over 7,000 signatures since hitting the web on Thursday, drawing in folks who’d like to slurp the mummy juice and perhaps contract an ancient form of sepsis. It has a very simple aim that archaeologists cannot condone: “let people drink the red liquid from the dark sarcophagus.”
I know everyone watches the news and thinks "Ya know what? how about we add a forgotten ancient curse to the mix?"
I also know there is never a good time for seven plagues but we may want to hold off on that mummy juice drinking. What about the consequences of opening the tomb you might ask?
Well, the guy who opened it doesn't seem concerned.
“Mostafa Waziri, secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities contradicted many of the gripes people had upon learning there would be no world-ending curse: “We’ve opened it and, thank god, the world has not fallen into darkness,” he told Egypt Today. “I was the first to put my whole head inside the sarcophagus... and here I stand before you.”
I don't want to be a Debbie Downer or nothin', but that is totally what the dude says right before all hell breaks loose in every action movie ever.
Good luck out there! and stay away from mummy juice.
