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"And it illustrated how susceptible museums and collectors were to opportunistic but somewhat artistic fraud during periods of antiquities fever. If you can't get enough mummy csi. In another case, the Vatican museums had two small mummies believed for decades to be ancient Egyptian artifacts. But later, sophisticated scans and tests revealed that the wrappings were genuinely ancient. But the contents, a man and a woman's bones, dated to the Middle Ages and even contained a modern nail."