HAND 6000 YEARS OLD.
RELIC OF EGYPTIAN PRINCESS FOUND IN A VENICE CANAL.
During dredging operations in the Guidecca Canal, Venice, workmen brought up a hermetioolly sealed wooden box. which, on being opened, was found' to contain a hand which experts said belonged to a female child eight or tern years old. The police, convinced that they bad to do with a foul crime, were busy trying to trace the murderous mutilator, when the- renowned Oriental painter, Signor Mainello, who has resided many years on the Venetian lagoons, narrated iiow a wealthy Egyptian family, wishing to' give him a souvenir of his sojourn in their native land, presented him with what they described as the mummified hand of an Egyptian princess who had lived 6000 yeans ago. Signor Mainella preserved the relic religiously for a decade or more, when, observing that the hand showed signs of decomposition, he instructed his valet to mail it securely in a box and throw it into the canal, where it has recently turned up again.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3345, 11 October 1911, Page 7
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171HAND 6000 YEARS OLD. Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3345, 11 October 1911, Page 7
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