{"id":131777,"date":"2010-01-03T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-03T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6760875.post-314976464651802020"},"modified":"2010-01-03T11:18:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-03T16:18:59","slug":"general-news-mummies-used-to-make-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/131777","title":{"rendered":"General News:   Mummies used to make paper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegram.com\/article\/20100102\/NEWS\/1020340\/1116\">Telegram.com<\/a> (Aaron Nicodemus)<\/p>\n<p>With photo.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Worcester librarian and researcher believes she has found definitive proof that an urban legend \u2014 that American paper manufacturers once made paper from the linen wrappings of Egyptian mummies \u2014 is indeed true.<\/p>\n<p>S.J. Wolfe of Worcester, a senior cataloger and serials specialist at the American Antiquarian Society, spent the last 10 years tracing the whereabouts of all the mummies that were imported to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>She recently published a book, \u201cMummies in Nineteenth Century America,\u201d in which she tells the stories of what happened to some of them.<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Egyptology News Blog, Andie Byrnes<img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/6760875-314976464651802020?l=egyptology.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegram.com (Aaron Nicodemus) With photo. A Worcester librarian and researcher believes she has found definitive proof that an urban legend \u2014 that American paper manufacturers once made paper from the linen wrappings of Egyptian mummies \u2014 is indeed true. S.J. Wolfe of Worcester, a senior cataloger and serials specialist at the American Antiquarian Society, spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}