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Egyptian Child Mummy Dumped in Garbage in France, Now Restored and Protected

Thursday, May 14, 2015 18:33
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Mummy of a child with a gilded face mask. Greco-Roman Museum, Alexandria, Egypt. Representational image only.

The mummy of an ancient Egyptian child was saved from a municipal dump and is set to go on display for the first time outside Paris. The 2,000-year-old mummified body and casket are thought to have been in the possession of a Napoleonic general before they were unceremoniously dumped in a rubbish pile in France.

Dump employee Jean-Louis Parichon spoke briefly with the local woman who brought the “cumbersome” toddler and decorated coffin to the municipal dump at Rueil Malmaison in 2001.

He recalled to The Guardian, “She said: 'Where shall I put this, it's a mummy?' We weren't sure exactly what she was on about. She just said she was clearing her cellar.”

“I immediately saw it was an extraordinary thing and put it to one side. Then when I'd stopped being astonished, I called the town museum,” he said.

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