I’ve been browsing antique jewelry a lot lately and wonder about this. With jewelry specifically I think about hair, coral, pearls.

Then that extends out to animal skins, bones, human relics, etc.

What makes one thing gross but the other okay?

  • CanadaPlus@futurology.todayEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Really? I was assuming you’d need pretty significant climate control. Although it probably varies by type.

    I have seen mummies stored like under a bench FWIW.

    Was that correct, or was that one of those OMG moments?

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      Well I was invited to a medical museum after hours, thinking about it, the mummies in question wasn’t Egyptian “thousands of years old”, a really old one might probably need good temperature and humidity control and surveillance of other things like mold etc.