> we also need to remember that rich folks used to uncover mummies in their parties for fun

And eat them, which... that's just like, really fucking weird.

Didn't they also crushed parts of them and snorted the powder at parties for fun?

And they made them into paint called "mummy brown." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown

Both uses were immortalised in music by the Dave Brubeck Quartet in the mid(?) 1950s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qs1J612nZs