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Two Egyptian mummies have been found under a McDonald's restaurant
in Tamworth.
Archaeologists also found two other mummies at a separate site
in the Staffordshire town.
They are thought to have been buried there in the 1930s by a local
philanthropist.
It was then the Reverend William McGregor set up a museum in the
town to house his collection of artefacts.
Ceefax reports that digs began under the restaurant and in a garden
after local historian John Harper heard rumours of a valuable stash.
Mr Harper said he had been told that during building work for the
construction of the Palace, Mr McGregor asked the site foreman if
he could bury the mummies in the foundations.
Mr Harper, who is also the assistant editor of the Tamworth Herald
and chairman of the Tamworth Heritage Society, said: "The foundations
looked like the kind of burial sites he had seen in Egypt, so he
asked the foreman if he would mind if he deposited a couple of his
mummies in the foundations.
"We have not been able to establish the identity of the mummies.
You have to remember that during the 1920s and 30s there was a craze
for them and people were shipping mummies over here by the boatload."
A spokeswoman for McDonald's said: "It is something we were
completely unaware of, but it is fascinating.
"We understand they are well within the foundations so an
excavation is out of the question, unfortunately."
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