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Vignette | Did You Know That There's a Mummy on Nguyễn Bỉnh Khiêm Boulevard?

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Within a climate-controlled glass display in the Vietnam History Museum in Saigon lies the permanent resting place of Nguyễn Thị Hiệu, who was believed to be a relative of Emperor Gia Long. Urban legends refer to her by the rather crude moniker xác ướp Xóm Cải, after the District 5 neighborhood where her mummified corpse was first discovered in 1994.___Written by Paul Christiansen.Read the full article here: https://saigoneer.com/saigon-heritage/26670-did-you-know-that-there-s-a-mummy-on-nguyễn-bỉnh-khiêm-boulevard.

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