Thursday, April 05, 2007

Joan of Arc Relics actually Egypt mummy remains

I'm not sure why this seems so bizarre, but it does!: "The charred bones that were long believed to be remains of St. Joan of Arc don't belong to the French heroine but are instead the remains of an Egyptian mummy, a new study has shown. Philippe Charlier, a forensic scientist at the Raymond PoincarĂ© Hospital in Paris, France, obtained permission last year to study the relics from the church in Normandy where they are housed. The relics were said to have been retrieved from the French site where Joan was burned at the stake in 1431. Charlier's team studied the relics—including a fragment of cloth and a human rib—under the microscope and subjected them to chemical tests."
See the above two-page article for the full summary.

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