SimonElectric: How is a mummy stuck to the inside of a coffin evidence of anything other than some sticky residue? Hmm, mummy, where does that word come from? Did someone say the Arabic word for bitumen, mummiya?

So the big shift in thought is that the pharoah would reanimate in an idealized form rather than their own body which had all the organs save the heart removed?  All this time I've been picturing them walking around wrapped in strips of linen. Shows how much I know.

ProfessorTerguson: I CAN'T  fap to this.

The Irresponsible Captain: It's interesting. One of the pitfalls of European archaeology is that ideas set forth by antiquarians are fossilized themselves and it takes great effort to move them, despite many of them just being upper class oddballs who liked digging up things and displaying them in their country houses.

Some Junkie Cosmonaut: KB202: There's also the possibility that over the thousands of years of ancient Egyptian cultures, religions, daily lives, politics, and philosophies, there is more than one explanation for a burial practice.

Not to mention the reality that we don't know shiat about stuff that went on that long ago, and about all we can do is dig up stuff and guess.