American Mummies: Three Iron Coffin Cold Cases from the 1850s

Part detective story, part American history: the reconstructed lives of three mummies buried in iron coffins

American Mummies explores life in the first half of the nineteenth century from a unique perspective, combining American history with cold case investigation. The three mummies—discovered in Egyptian-looking iron coffins that naturally preserved their remains—aren’t the relics of defunct ancient empires; they died in New York and New Jersey in the 1850s. Yet their stories crackle with...