Has This Library Solved "The Mystery Of The Mummy Paper?"

Growing up I heard stories about mummy wrappings being used for paper. I heard how mummified bodies were brought over seas to be used as fuel for trains.

When your young you envision shirtless men covered with dirt  sawing dried bodys and tossing them in cauldrens of bubbling liquid. OK, so I was a weird Kiddie.

This week an announcement was made.

S.J.Wolfe a self taught Egyptologist found a document in the Brown University's John Hay Library which is raising eyebrows and interest in about the topic.

This incredible document seems to verify that during the 1850's rag supplies  fell sort of need. North Eastern Paper companies supplemented their  "raw" materials with the wrappings from Mummies.

The book refered to as a "Norwich Broadside,"  is a hymnal which has a note in it that it is made from recycled Mummy rags.

Wolfe calls it a smoking gun. The first real evidence found confirming that mummies were taken from their burial places for nothing more than a 2 penny news paper.

http://blog.seattlepi.com/bookpatrol/archives/195111.asp