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  Not quite mummies but similar i.e. skeletons. I visited the Wellcome Foundation last year to see an exhibition of 26 skeletons which had been buried within the City of London. The skeletons reflected London's varied social geography, from the affluent district of Chelsea to the Cross Bones cemetery in Southwark, believed to have been established originally as a graveyard for prostitutes! One of the most gruesome examples was the skeleton of a young woman who died around the beginning of the 19th century. She had such severe syphilis that her skull still bears the scars of where the disease entered her bones - ewwww! Another had her head and neck stained green by copper waste in the earth from the manufacture of coins at the Royal Mint, which later occupied the site above where she was buried. A couple of the skeletons dated back to Roman times, one guy was huge! I found it absolutely fascinating, alas they didn't permit photography.

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