The Egyptian mummy that was wrapped in a linen book

In 1848 a Croatian official named Mihajlo Baric resigned from his post and decided to travel the world. His list of countries included Egypt where he bought a sarcophagus containing a female mummy as a souvenir. He put the mummy in a display at his home in Vienna and kept the wrappings in a separate glass case. After his death in 1859 the mummy came to the possession of his brother, a priest in Slavonia who donated it to the State Institute of Croatia, Slavonia, and Dalmatia in Zagreb in 1867. The mummy was then examined by a German Egyptologist named Heinrich Brugsch and he noticed the texts in the wrappings and believed them to be Egyptian hieroglyphs.

In 1891 the wrappings were transported into Vienna where Jacob Krall examined them thoroughly and identified the language as Etruscan. His work established that the linen wrappings were actually a manuscript written in Etruscan.  

This manuscript is now known as Liber Linteus and it has 230 lines of text with 1200 legible words. It is considered as the longest Etruscan text and the only extant linen book dated to the 3rd century BCE. However due to the lack of knowledge about the language most of it remains a mystery but from the few words that are understandable, it appears to be a ritual calendar.

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