Sarcophagus filled with “Mummy Juice”

In Girl in the Glass, the Obturavi lead Declan and the other Clypeate into a cellar containing a large black stone.

Declan moved closer to the large black stone and saw carvings along the sides. “Hieroglyphs,” the professor remarked. “Is this a block from an obelisk?”

“Nein, es ist ein ägyptischer Sarkophag,” answered a nearby guard.

More surprises await, learning the sarcophagus is filled with a mysterious red liquid used by the Obturavi for nefarious purposes. As Direktor Schmidt explains:

“The sarcophagus took up valuable space in the Louvre, and the museum’s curators found the contents disturbing. Instead of mummified remains, the inside was filled with thick, crimson liquid. We call it Mumiensaft, mummy juice.”

In reality, there was a black granite sarcophagus discovered in Alexandria, Egypt, in 2018, containing three skeletons immersed in a red liquid. While initial speculation and an online petition jokingly suggested magical properties, the liquid was identified as sewage water that had leaked into the sarcophagus through cracks in the stone. 

Archaeologists found the liquid had caused the mummified remains and their wrappings to partially disintegrate. The skeletons are believed to be from the Ptolemaic (332-30 BCE) or Roman (30 BCE - 642 CE) periods. One of the skulls showed evidence of trepanation, a form of ancient surgery involving drilling a hole into the cranium.

As mentioned above, the petition regarding the mummy juice was filed on Change.org, with more than 2,300 people signing it. The petition was titled “Let people drink the red liquid from the dark sarcophagus." The stated reason? “We need to drink the red liquid from the cursed dark sarcophagus in the form of some sort of carbonated energy drink so we can assume its powers and finally die.” Declan would disagree.

Black stone sarcophagus

Opening the Sarcophagus

Mummy remains floating in red mummy juice

Sarcophagus details