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A Worcester librarian and researcher believes she has found definitive proof that an urban legend — that American paper manufacturers once made paper from the linen wrappings of Egyptian mummies — is indeed true.
S.J. Wolfe of Worcester, a senior cataloger and serials specialist at the American Antiquarian Society, spent the last 10 years tracing the whereabouts of all the mummies that were imported to the United States.
She recently published a book, “Mummies in Nineteenth Century America,” in which she tells the stories of what happened to some of them.
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