Whatever happened to the three wise men? [View all]
Someone asked in another thread about whatever happened to these guys. Turns out, I'd recently researched the mystery.
"Despite presumably having hailed from three different continents (Africa, Europe and Asia, respectively), the three wise men had managed a reunion for the purposes of croaking, and being buried together, in the Land of Ind, where in the kind of happy coincidence that we’ve come to expect from Constantine's mom [Queen Helena, the founding mother of the relic biz], they were luckily discovered. Helena decided to put all the wise man bones into a single chest which she jazzed up with jewels and gold and other assorted bling and then she carted the whole thing back to the church of Saint Sophia in Constantinople. There the mummies rested comfortably until AD 1164 when Holy Roman Emperor Frederick moved them one last time to Cologne, where they reside to this very day. "
From "Exit Through the Grift Shop" in my forthcoming book, Laughing at the Gods.
You probably don't even want to know about what happened to Jesus' foreskin and other proliferating penis pieces.
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