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Coffins
Leah Williams
For the past 150 years, the cedar coffin of an ancient Egyptian priestess has been on display at a museum in Australia. Records suggested the 2500-year-old sarcophagus was empty, so no one bothered to look inside. Last year, museum curators finally opened the lid, and to their shock, the coffin…
It almost looks like an over-the-top prank by the Onion, but this $US30,700 coffin — equipped with speakers and a wireless streaming sound system — is apparently real. Even its name, the CataCombo Sound System, seems like something made up for a Saturday Night Live commercial parody. But if you…
When you die and you’re lowered into your grave, you might as well do it in style. If you were a brewer, why wouldn’t you be buried in a beer bottle? Crazy Coffins lets the deceased and their families do just that, with some of the wildest eternal resting places…
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