200,000 Stuffed Cats Were Shipped From Egypt To England.

[mickman]

What happened to them.I can't find any info about this on Google has anyone got the faintest idea (Quiz question)

[katburd]

don't know if this info has anything to do with your question:
At Beni Hasan, there were so many cat mummies that at the end of the 19th century, a total of 19 tons of mummified Egyptian cats were shipped to England to be used as fertilizer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_mummy

[Peter Pedant]

ground up as fertiliser

This came up a few days ago
- not as Katburd's post to whom I say well done !

but I cant recollect the circumstances..... ( my memory has been affected by chemo so I find this sort of lapse particularly upsetting )

[Peter Pedant]

actually goggling fertiliser cat mummy
is interesting
OK it is interesting to me.

and it came up as...... a cat mummy photo was published as what is this ?
Times perhaps and it came up. Fella found a wrapped thingey in the attic and x rayed it you know as you do and found it had a cat skeleton. And the consequence was the uncle who had the attic had been an Egyptologist.

[katburd]

yes Peter Pedant I too have been reading that story about the one found in the attic, also this other story, I just don't like the sound of it at all.

[mickman]

Thank you both for your help.