Posted on May 4, 2018
A Mummy Turned Up in Iran. Could It Be the Former Shah?
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Deep in the Pit, liberated from its tomb beneath a thick slab of concrete, lay a mud-colored mummy. It was discovered near the shrine to a Shiite saint, Shah Abdol Azim, where kings and noblemen have been laid to rest. An excavator working nearby suddenly fell silent, and workers could be heard crying out in amazement.
A Mummy Turned Up in Iran. Could It Be the Former Shah?
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If it is hopefully they do the honorable thing, clean it up and give it's decent reburial.
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It appears, according to this article that it is.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-inconvenient-mummy-haunting-iran?ref=home
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-inconvenient-mummy-haunting-iran?ref=home
The Inconvenient Mummy Haunting Iran
When the mummified body of Reza Shah popped up by accident it carried a message but not one that a lot of people in Tehran, or the U.S. and Britain, will want to hear.
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