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A mummy, 2009. The Mummies of Guanajuato are a number of naturally mummified bodies originally interred in Guanajuato, Mexico. The human bodies appear to have been disinterred between 1870 and 1958. During that time, a local tax was in place requiring a fee to be paid for "perpetual" burial.
Mexico's federal archaeology agency on Monday accused the conservative-governed city of Guanajuato of mistreating one of the country’s famous mummified 19th century bodies. The National ...
Mummies of Guanajuato: Mexico: died in Cholera outbreak in 1833: Mun (一善文氏) and a grandson Yi Eung-tae (李應台) South Korea: Yi 1556–1586 [23] Nicolaus Rungius: Finland: c. 1560–1629: Ötzi the Iceman: Italy / Austria: c. 3300 BCE: San Pedro Mountains mummy: USA: Eva Perón: Argentina: 7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952 [31] Persian ...
On November 4, Quintana and the National Search Commission stated that the death toll had risen to sixty-seven, sixty-six of which were located in Salvatierra. [7] Of the sixty-seven, fifty bodies had been identified. [7] This number increased to seventy-six bodies on November 8, and sixty-five graves with seventy-nine bodies by December. [5 ...
Experts working in the Tomb of Cerberus in Giugliano, an area in Naples, unsealed a 2,000-year-old sarcophagus. Inside they found the remains of a shockingly well-preserved body lying face-up and ...
Fascinated by the “screaming woman” who died 3,500 years ago, researchers used CT scans other techniques to understand what might have caused her striking expression.
The Mummies of Guanajuato is a 1978 book which reprints Ray Bradbury's novelette, "The Next in Line", illustrated with photographs, by Archie Lieberman, of the actual mummies discovered in Guanajuato which inspired the story. The story originally appeared in Bradbury's first book, Dark Carnival, in 1947.
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, four mummies – the priestess Hortesnakht of Akhmim, [33] the lady Rer of Saqqara, [33] an unidentified man from the 4th or 3rd century BCE (known as "the mummy from Szombathely" after the location of the previous collection he was part of) [34] and a man from the 2nd century BCE (known as "the unwrapped mummy" as he was already unwrapped when the museum ...