Termite hunters find 200-year-old mummy

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Exterminators looking for termites in a monastery in Brazil's biggest city of Sao Paulo found a mummy and a skeleton believed to be at least 200 years old, the head of the monastery said on Tuesday.

"There were some mounds of termite dust and the exterminators broke into the walls to see what was in there," Father Armenio Rodrigues Nogueira, who is in charge of the monastery, one of the city's oldest, told Reuters.

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What a great discovery, I assume they're going to perserve them at a museum somewhere, or have the scientists study them for answers.
 
QUOTE (MisterKalas @ February 27, 2008 06:59 pm) Exterminators looking for termites in a monastery in Brazil's biggest city of Sao Paulo found a mummy and a skeleton believed to be at least 200 years old, the head of the monastery said on Tuesday.

"There were some mounds of termite dust and the exterminators broke into the walls to see what was in there," Father Armenio Rodrigues Nogueira, who is in charge of the monastery, one of the city's oldest, told Reuters.

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What a great discovery, I assume they're going to perserve them at a museum somewhere, or have the scientists study them for answers.
well thats something unexpected
 
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