ROMAN MUMMY IN EUROPE
DRESS OF THE ROYAL PURPLE FIRST SUCH DISCOVERY REPORTED JEWELS IN TOMB NEAR BUDAPEST By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. Vienna, Aug. 23 ( For the first time in history a mummy has been unearthed in Europe —a perfectly preserved woman’s body dressed in the Roman royal "'purple,proving her connection with the Im; penal House. The discovery was made in a Roman tomb near Budapest.
In the grave beside the mummy were a pot of rouge, a bowl of powder, three bottles of ecent and' numerous jewels including ivory hairpins';-, a bronze knitting needle and a Roman coin indicating that the woman may have lived about 5 225 A.D.
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Taranaki Daily News, 25 August 1931, Page 11
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