Return of the Mummy
(World News USA)

C ORPUS CHRISTI - The child had a name. But no one knows what it was. The Corpus Christi Caller-Times in 1957 reported a mummified child described as an `Inca Indian child from Peru` who died about 2,000 years ago was brought to Corpus Christi for the Junior Museum, now known as the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History. Aalbert Heine, the Junior Museum`s first director, brought the mummy as a gift from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, his former place of employment, according to a 60-year-old Corpus Christi Times article. It was on display until the 1980s and has been in museum storage ever since. `Starting a new museum was very...