A Rare Iron Coffin Has Scientists Digging Into the Past Who is the man in the iron coffin?

Most of his headstone disappeared some time ago, and the place where he and his family were buried became overgrown with trees and brush. The cemetery became a farm and the farm became an industrial park, and descendants didn't even know it was there. It's strange and sad how the dissolutions of time can make a real live man who once swaggered across the earth worse than dead: forgotten.

But now, on a recent Wednesday, the man in the iron coffin -- they guess it's a man from the length and heft of that rusting thing -- lies on a table in the bowels of the National Museum of Natural History. He has traveled from Pulaski, Tenn., and before that, through 141 years underground, and before that, through a lifetime of his own.

And he is about to rejoin the world of the living.

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I just thought this was an interesting story and a good example of just how far technology has come.

An interesting story, I thought only wooden coffins were
used in the past. Nice find starlyte. I'm glad they found
out his identity.

I didn't know they had iron coffins back then either. That was a fascinating story starlyte

thats wierd! wouldn't an iron coffin be heavy to lug around - maybe he wanted it that way - cool post!

WaW

As I know ... Iron Coffins are used for great people who did something good in life ... they are also used to protect the person in the coffin from bad evil spirits ...

thanks djdodo i had no idea!

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As I know ... Iron Coffins are used for great people who did something good in life ... they are also used to protect the person in the coffin from bad evil spirits

I didn't know this djdodo, interesting.

I thought that was an interesting point, also, Dj Wonder what else is in this earth waiting to be found..