May 2, 2005
Revenge of the Inca Mummy?
This item might be of added interest as the police search for the culprits who may have destroyed"The Scream.":
Bearing a striking resemblance to Munch's now stolen painting, the mummy was rediscovered as Florence's Museum of Natural History began to carry out scientific investigations such as CT scans on its collection of Peruvian mummies.
An Inca mummy kept in a Florentine museum might have been a source of inspiration for Edvard Munch's painting"The Scream," an Italian anthropologist claims.