Child Buried With 142 Dogs in Ancient Egyptian Necropolis

Heritage Daily ^ | January 16, 2023 | Markus Milligan

[SunkenCiv]

Credit : CEI RAS

[SunkenCiv]

Someone liked to play fetch.

[NWFree]

Big deal we have little old ladies in California with 142 dogs while still alive

[BenLurkin]

http://www.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/dog.wav

[rdl6989]

Yep.

[sumuam]

Those are probably jackals, (not dogs, or domesticated) Jackals of the desert were represented with the god, Anubis, the jackal-headed, so that’s weird.

[George J. Jetso]

Lay down with dogs, wake up with fleas.

[Varda]

Probably not. Dogs are easy to tell from jackals.

[nicollo]

the child was found with a linen bag placed on their head.

Whose head? Chinese twins?

[nicollo]

Lake Moeris is part of the Faiyum Oasis and is where Menes (or Narmer?) was attacked by his own dogs. He escaped on the back of a crocodile (early jetski).

Must be something about the dogs there.

[SunkenCiv]

In that case, the kid must laid down with fleas, which gave the embalmers this idea...

[Sawdring]

The local dog catcher killed the neighbor boy, put a bag on his head and then buried him with dead dogs.

[moovova]

Mom: “I loved my son with all of my heart, but you could keep his dogs. One dog? Sure. Two maybe. But 142? That’s crazy. And I’m not taking care of those filthy animals now that he’s gone. You can bury them with my son.”

Slave: “Yes, Your Highness. As you wish.”

[SunkenCiv]

Mostly, Egyptians were the Crazy Cat People of the ancient world, thousands of cat mummies (or fake ones, sometimes with a single body part of a cat) have been found in burials.

[moovova]

I understand the Egyptians interest in cats. Dogs are generally sweet...cats can be like creatures from one of those godlike sparkly lights up in the nighttime Egyptian sky.

[Salamander]

So now I know how I want to be buried.

[MarMema]

“Whose head?”

The child is nonbinary?

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[x]

Faiyum (Fayum) is famous for its remarkable "mummy portraits."

[SunkenCiv]

:^) How are you doing?

[SunkenCiv]

Mummified crocodiles provide insights into mummy-making over time
https://phys.org/news/2023-01-mummified-crocodiles-insights-mummy-making.html