Tales from the Scarlet Vault -The History Lover
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Here is an interesting item, sealed inside this glass display casket. You may recognize it from trips to the local museum as a child – it’s an Egyptian mummy, in life a beautiful princess, but in death, a well-preserved corpse. Missing the brain and most of the other vital organs, of course, as these would have been placed in canopic jars. According to the death rites of ancient Egyptian custom, however, she was permitted to keep her heart. Perhaps that was a mistake…
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