"The ancient Egyptians took precautions against necrophilia by prohibiting the corpses of the wives of men of rank from being delivered immediately to the embalmers, for fear that the embalmers would violate them."
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Herodotus, in "Les Belles lettres," in Historiae, Book 11, Chapter 89.
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