Did Victorians really eat ancient Egyptian mummies?

In short, yes: the Victorians did indeed think eating mummified remains pilfered from ancient Egyptian tombs was a good idea, although they did not come up with the idea themselves.

- Jonny Wilkes, freelance writer

The morbid practice had begun much earlier, in the Middle Ages.

At the time of the crusades, Europeans travelled to the Holy Land in large numbers and started hearing about