Nicholson Museum in Sydney

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  3-27-18
  

  A museum relegated an ‘empty’ coffin to a side room for decades. Inside was a 2,500-year-old mummy.

  The coffin, from the 6th century B.C., had been purchased by Sir Charles Nicholson from an Egyptian antiquities market in 1857 or 1858.