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A video has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times on Facebook alongside a claim it shows the mummy of an ancient Burmese prince on display in the US. The claim is false; the image actually shows the glass coffin of a catacomb saint at a church in Austria s Tyrol state.
The video has been viewed more than 400,000 times since it was published here on Facebook on January 4, 2021. It has been shared more than 4,000 times.
Screenshot of the misleading post, taken on January 7, 2020
The Burmese-language title of the video translates as: “The mummy of a Burmese prince in the United States”.