
Why did people start eating Egyptian mummies?
Mummies have fascinated people for centuries, and have even been ground-up and used as medicines.
Christopher Wanjek is the author of the health books "Bad Medicine" and "Food At Work" and the novel "Hey, Einstein!" a comical nature-versus-nurture tale about raising clones of Albert Einstein in less-than-ideal settings. His column, Bad Medicine, appears regularly on LiveScience.