Nashville Mummy

The Tennessee State Museum has on display a 3600 year-old mummy. It is believed that the mummy was obtained by a man named Jeremiah Harris in 1860 and brought back to Tennessee, where the Tennessee Historical Society took possession and put the mummy on display at the state capitol.

The mummy is unwrapped, although the explanation for this is unclear. The (probably apocryphal) story is that during the American Civil War, occupying Union soldiers unwrapped the mummy, looking for jewels.