Massive Mummy Fraud Discovered After 2,000 Years

The Guardian (UK) ^ | 6-21-1006 | Maev Kennedy

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Massive mummy fraud discovered after 2,000 years

Maev Kennedy
Wednesday June 21, 2006

Not quite what it seems ... Roman period mummy at the Fitzwilliam Museum

Modern medical science has exposed the villainy of the crocodile mummy sellers of Hawara, more than 2,000 years after they defied the edict of a Pharaoh and turned neatly bandaged bundles of rubbish into a nice little earner. Before the reopening this month of the Egyptian Galleries at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, curators took their animal and human mummies to the city's Addenbrooke's Hospital, as part of a £1.5m re-display of the internationally renowned collection, which dates in part back to the founding of the museum in 1816.

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GGG Ping.

[kstewskis]

Modern medical science has exposed the villainy of the crocodile mummy sellers of Hawara, more than 2,000 years after they defied the edict of a Pharaoh and turned neatly bandaged bundles of rubbish into a nice little earner.

Darn rascals!

[AndrewB]

[AndrewC]

You had an extra double quote.

[AndrewB]

Doh! Thanks.

[mikrofon]

Fraudenshroude!

[fishbabe]

He will run as hillarys V.P. candidate and secure the old vote!!!!

[Larry Lucido]

So was it King Rooten Tooten or Queen Hotsy Totsy?

[kstewskis]

So was it King Rooten Tooten or Queen Hotsy Totsy?

I think it was a toss up...but I do know they were wanting their mummy through the whole thing!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Blam.

[caster noises as 'Civ rolls out the usual jokes]

Seems to me the ancient Egyptians weren't wrapped too tight.

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[Peelod]

The Truth in Mummification Act was supposed to prevent this.

Typical lax law enforcement by the Bush Admin. When will they go after Big Religion?

[LIConFem]

Mummies vote Democrat, I'll wager.

[reagan_fanatic]

Is the Isle of Schmoe still just over the givadam?

[Dustbunny]

Geeze, I'll bet it came as a shock that even 2,000 years ago there was fraud.

[SunkenCiv]

:'D Another old mummification scam involved fake cat mummies; still another involved sawing the legs off the deceased (human) to make them fit the stock coffin.

[SuzyQue]

Ooooh - That was a good one.