The photo was taken during a trip to Egypt by the Archduke.

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  • A photo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, who was assassinated in 1914 in Sarajevo, has gone viral on Twitter.

    And for good reason: the one who ruled the Austro-Hungarian Empire poses in a sarcophagus of ancient Egypt.

  • A representative of the museum who keeps the photo tells us her story.

It's a cliché that surprises and amuses.

The image, which appears to date, shows a man whose head emerges from a sarcophagus in ancient Egypt.

The person who lends himself to this staging would be Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated in 1914 in Sarajevo.

The image went viral for the first time in August on the Reddit forum, before being re-shared on Twitter on Wednesday.

The photo was taken during a trip to Egypt.

- Twitter screenshot

Is the photo a clever Photoshop montage or an (old) travel souvenir of the one who ruled the Austro-Hungarian Empire?

We did the investigation.

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A reverse image search with the Bing search engine referred us to another similar image, which features a handwritten inscription.

A blog attributed the photo in 2016 to the Austrian castle of Artstetten, where the sovereign is buried and where a museum is dedicated to him.

A representative of this museum confirms

the authenticity of the photo

at

20 minutes

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This comes from a trip to Egypt by the Archduke.

“In the spring of 1895, about two years after his ten-month trip around the world, the Archduke's life was put to the test: pulmonary tuberculosis, a tragic legacy of his mother, finally took hold of him. , says Brigitte E. Leidwein, from the Artstetten museum.

In 1896, the Archduke had to think of a vacation in Egypt from December to March.

For climatic reasons, a convalescent stay in the country on the Nile was the most favorable.

It was during this stay in Egypt that the photo was taken!

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The Archduke and his wife will die assassinated on June 28, 1914 in Sarajevo, an event which will contribute to start the First World War.

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