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Mummified remains unearthed in Indiana
Fox News ^ | 06.29.2015 | Elizabeth Armstrong Moore

Posted on 06/29/2015 12:46:32 PM PDT by dware

Workers exploring the site of an intended quarry in rural Indiana stumbled upon a mummified body that experts say could be anywhere from 500 to 2,000 years old, the Times of Northwest Indiana reports.

"They could distinguish a head and a torso," says a local sheriff. "It could be a Native American burial ground." Because the remains appear to pre-date 1940, the coroner's office and law enforcement won't be involved in any criminal investigation; as the Times puts it, if a crime did occur, it's likely "hundreds of years too late to do anything about it." The state's archaeology department is taking the lead.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: godsgravesglyphs; indiana; mummies
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To: Alex Murphy

That was a really bad night.


21 posted on 06/29/2015 2:32:13 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("The rat always knows when he's in with weasels."--Tom Waits)
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To: dware
a Native American burial ground

Nothing good ever comes of disturbing one of THOSE!

22 posted on 06/29/2015 2:35:03 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: dware

It is Jimmy Hoffa.


23 posted on 06/29/2015 2:35:06 PM PDT by dforest
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To: dware

Turns out that it was actually Hilary sleeping between campaign stops...


24 posted on 06/29/2015 3:14:22 PM PDT by PATRIOT1876
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To: rey

Kind of hard to get evidence and testimony when the witnesses are also long dead.


25 posted on 06/30/2015 8:36:11 PM PDT by setha (It is past time for the United States to take back what the world took away.)
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