Posted by TT on 10/24/2007, 12:28 pm, in reply to "Re: Classical Holmes?" --Previous Message--
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I'd like to know what they did with the honey afterwards - waste not want not!
: Awesome... I'd liked to seen how they made the
: centaur was made.
:
: --Previous Message--
: Apparently, honey was pretty commonly used
: in
: ancient times to transport corpses long
: distances (so that they could be buried at
: home). The Egyptians probably invented this
: use.
:
: The most famous use of this technique was
: apparently with Alexander the Great, as they
: not only brought him home to his tomb in
: Egypt in a coffin filled with honey, but
: actually put him on exhibit there in a glass
: coffin held together with silver and filled
: with honey.
:
: At one point, the alleged body of a centaur
: was put on display in Rome in such a coffin.
: (Sounds like a Roman sideshow hoax to
: me....)
:
: So Holmes was displaying his interest in the
: science and engineering of classical times
: by embalming himself in honey -- in a
: glass-windowed coffin, to boot! (And so were
: DiC's writers.)
:
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