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Experts from Manchester University have discovered that the diet offered to Ancient Egyptian gods and subsequently eaten by the temple priests were the equivalent of today’s junk food and laden with artery-clogging saturated fat.
The evidence from this was taken from analysing the mummies of priests which bore the unmistakable signs of damaged arteries and heart disease, and also from the hieroglyphic inscriptions on temple walls detailing what was to be offered to the gods.
Reporting in The Lancet, the experts found that sumptuous meals of beef, wild fowl, bread, fruit, vegetables, cake, wine and beer were given up to the gods three times a day, and that these were eaten by the priests on the principle of it’s ‘a shame to let it go to waste’.
Not much has changed, has it?
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Experts from Manchester University have discovered that the diet offered to Ancient Egyptian gods and subsequently eaten by the temple priests were the equivalent of today’s junk food and laden with artery-clogging saturated fat.
The evidence from this was taken from analysing the mummies of priests which bore the unmistakable signs of damaged arteries and heart disease, and also from the hieroglyphic inscriptions on temple walls detailing what was to be offered to the gods.
Reporting in The Lancet, the experts found that sumptuous meals of beef, wild fowl, bread, fruit, vegetables, cake, wine and beer were given up to the gods three times a day, and that these were eaten by the priests on the principle of it’s ‘a shame to let it go to waste’.
Not much has changed, has it?
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