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To: Red Badger

Someone cut the head off, so, it counts.

In past decades, a bunch of tourists and whatnot (whonot?) got waylaid by creepy locals selling bits of mummies they’d plundered. The Grand Rapids museum has a mummy head bought from an Egyptian guy who followed a Grand Rapidian (if memory serves, it was Kendall) around all day demanding money for it.

A previously unwrapped, identified mummy was conserved back in the 1990s, thanks to donations, and while that was being done, the anonymous head was also conserved. Both were CAT-scanned and reproduced forensically, ironically preserving them in an identifiable way.

https://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grand-rapids/2015/02/grand_rapids_public_museum_egy.html

In Boston, another example of a severed mummy head is found, but a tentative ID was at least available:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-fbi-helped-museum-learn-identify-4000-year-old-severed-head-180968674/


17 posted on 05/02/2023 7:39:57 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (NeverTrumpers are Republicans the same way Liz Cheney is a Republican.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The only 'mummy' I can identify................

18 posted on 05/02/2023 7:45:57 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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