For example: Where did Egypt get the millions — yes, millions — of African sacred ibises that they mummified as offerings to the god Thoth? “The question was where they got that large number” of ibises, Wasef said. Others have suggested that on large-scale ibis farms, priests bred and raised domesticated birds the way people raise chickens and other fowl today. To answer this question, researchers took tissue samples from a number of different ibis mummies. Instead, the mummy DNA showed a lot of variation — about the same amount found in African sacred ibises today.

Source: bd News24 November 17, 2019 07:41 UTC