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Road Workers in China Unearth 700-Year-Old Mummy

A road excavation in China turned into an archaeological dig when workers unearthed a 700-year-old mummy. A wooden coffin containing the find was found during preparations for a road-expansion project in the eastern part of the country. ChinaFotoPress/ZUMA Press Road workers in China discovered this perfectly...

Brother: Destroy Lee Harvey Oswald's Coffin

The brother of Lee Harvey Oswald says Oswald's coffin belongs to him and never should have been sold at auction as a kind of historical souvenir. Instead, Robert Oswald says the coffin that once held his brother, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy, should be destroyed. The casket was sold last week for...

Lee Harvey Oswald's Coffin Sells for $87,000 at Auction

(Dec. 17) -- The original coffin of JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald has found a final resting place for $87,469. The coffin was auctioned off Thursday night, more than 47 years after President John F. Kennedy was shot dead in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963. Four U.S. government investigations concluded that Oswald killed Kennedy,...

No Conspiracy: Lee Harvey Oswald's Coffin for Sale

(Dec. 1) -- A California auction house is offering bidders the chance to buy the coffin of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man believed to have killed President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Bidding for the discolored, water-damaged pine box will start at $1,000, according to the website of the Nate D. Sanders auction house in Los...

Buried in a Shoe? Ghana's Custom Coffins Celebrate Lives of the Dead

(Oct. 26) -- A coffin might be your most lasting purchase -- so shouldn't it make a lasting impression? Craftsmen in the African nation of Ghana have gained international acclaim for their flashy, custom-built coffins, which are individually designed to resemble an object with special meaning to the person who died. From...

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[[File:Presidential 02.jpg|thumb|Recreation of President Abraham Lincoln lying in repose in replicated coffin at the [http://www.nmfh.org National Museum of Funeral History, Houston TX]]]

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