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Mr Moon and his Mummified Mollie

Around Halloween there was a shuddersome spate of stories about mummies and grave robbing. There were so many mummy dearest that I just had to write about Mr Moon and his wife Molly.

Elbows on the Table: Professor Segato’s petrified corpse furniture

Elbows on the Table: Professor Segato’s petrified corpse furniture In an obscure museum in Florence, Italy, there is an object–a table top–which looks like it is inlaid with polished semi-precious stones. In fact, it is made of pieces of petrified human corpses.