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Cleopatra's Mummy

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Day
16
Month
October
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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Where does Cleopatra's body rest? Scarcely a layman who would not swer, "Why, in Egypt!" Af ter her cajoleries, her wiles, her life of intense, if not very exalted, loves, Cleopatra was laid in one of the loveliest tombs that have ever been fashioned by the hand of man. But what a change 200 years have brought about! Today an ugly mummy, with an emblematic bunch of decayed wheat and a coarse comb tied to its head - a mere rol] of tightly swathed dust- lies crumbled in a hideous glass case at the British museum. It is Cleopatra, the once great queen, a Venus in charm, beauty and Iovp

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Ann Arbor Democrat