stackyFACTSYou can't take your riches with you, but you definitely need carbs in the afterlife. Elaborate tombs often included intricate, miniature wooden models of servants baking bread and brewing beer. The belief was that magic would bring these wooden figures to life, guaranteeing the deceased a never-ending supply of spectral pastries.
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