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The handwritten letters found in the back of the Rubaiyat linked to the Somerton Man, from a 1949 South Australia Police photograph

The Somerton Man: a body on the beach, a secret code and two words, “Tamam Shud”

October 30, 2026

In 1948 a well-dressed man was found dead on an Australian beach with a scrap of paper reading “Tamam Shud” in a hidden pocket. A name was proposed in 2022, but the biggest questions are still open.

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