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1000-year-old mummified monk hidden in statue
short by नवीन शर्मा / on Friday, 27 February, 2015
Scientific tests have revealed a 1,000-year-old mummified monk hidden in a golden statue of a sitting Buddha. Researchers discovered the mummy in the statue, smuggled from a China temple to a market in the Netherlands, after a private buyer brought it to a museum for restoration. The mummy was found sitting on a bundle of cloth covered in Chinese inscriptions.
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