When Munich officers asked the two women to open their sealed suitcase, they discovered that the travelers, both in their 60s, had placed the skull and several bones of a man inside.

Flying to Italy via Munich from Brazil, the women had brought along the man's remains to fulfill his wish of finding his final resting place in Italy. According to documents, he had already died 11 years earlier in Sao Paolo.

While the Bavarian officials were understandably surprised about the mode of transport, they did allow the women to continue their journey. After all, they had all the necessary documents to bring the bones to Naples.

And who's to say that a Koffer, or suitcase in German, can't work just as well as a coffin?