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Paul Bunyan stands 25 feet tall in front of a building at 2770 W. Kilgore Avenue in Muncie. PHOTO: Muncie Visitors Bureau
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two Egyptian mummies on permanent display in the state of Indiana: one male and one female. Ta’an (the female mummy) dates back 300 years before Christ, about the time of Cleopatra and Marc Antony, and is located on the Earlham College campus at Joseph Moore Museum of Natural History. “In 1889, Ta’an was legally purchased from the Egyptian government by Joseph Moore and taken to Earlham College,” said Nancy Sartain, leisure marketing director at the Richmond-Wayne County Convention & Visitors Bureau. “She was a young woman in her early 20s.” The male mummy, Menkaef, was purchased in 1929 in an Egyptian shop by
While you’re in Wayne County, head over for a photo opp in front of the giant candle at Warm Glow Candle Outlet, right off the Centerville exit on I-70. Wayne County Historical Museum founder, Julia Meek Gaar. “She reportedly paid $3,000 for the mummy,” explained Sartain. “He was one of the last mummies to leave Egypt. Today, Menkaef is located in the museum’s Egyptian room. The room also has twelve cases of artifacts, an X-ray of him, and a 3D recreation of Menkaef’s face constructed by a forensic artist.” While you’re in Wayne County,
