Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1920 — Art Collectors Fooled. [ARTICLE]

Art Collectors Fooled.

Wealthy collectors searching tn Egypt for treasures and relics are often imposed upon by crafty Arabs, - who manufacture mummies, using the bodies of their own dead, which they swathe in the mummy windings and encase in stolen or spurious mummy cases. The duped collector, after secretly negotiating with a mysterious Arab, is led to an abandoned pyramid, where the fake mummy is discovered. Then the Arab aids the collector in smuggling the mummy out of Egypt that the Egyptian authorities, who examine all relics taken out Of the country, may not reveal his swindle. x