One of the most unique archaeological finds of modern times.
Perhaps, everything at least once in my life seen any horror movie in which the recovered dead persons attack people. These evil dead excite the human imagination. But in fact, the mummies pose no danger and have incredible scientific value. In our review one of the most incredible archaeological finds of our time – the mummies of Guanajuato.
Mummies of Guanajuato – a collection of naturally mummified bodies buried during a cholera outbreak in the Mexican Guanajuato in 1833. These mummies were discovered in the town cemetery, after which Guanajuato became one of the main tourist attractions in Mexico. However, attraction is very creepy.
Scientists believe that the bodies were exhumed between 1865 and 1958. At the time, introduced a new tax, according to which relatives of the deceased had to pay tax on a place in the cemetery, otherwise the body exhumed. In the end, ninety percent of the remains were exhumed because they want to pay such a tax was a little. Of these, only two percent of the bodies were mummified naturally. Mummified bodies, which were kept in a special building at the cemetery in 1900-ies were made available to the tourists.
The cemetery workers started for a few pesos to allow visitors to enter the building, where he kept the bones and mummies. This place was later converted into a Museum called El Museo De Las Momias ( “Museum of mummies”). The law prohibiting the exhumation was adopted in 1958, but until now, this Museum exhibits the original mummies.
Mexican mummies of Guanajuato – the result of weather conditions and soil conditions under which there is mummification. The bodies of the dead people who have not taken for burial, relatives often become public exhibits. During the epidemic the bodies were buried immediately after death to prevent spread of the disease. Scientists believe that some people were buried alive, and that’s why their faces imprinted expression of horror. But there is another opinion: the expression is the result of postmortem processes.
It is known that a certain Ignatius Aguilar was indeed buried alive. The woman suffered from a strange disease where she stopped several times heart. During one of the attacks, her heart seemed to have stopped for more than a day. Considering that Ignatius died, her relatives buried her. When exhumed, it was found that her body was lying face down, and she was biting her hand, and my mouth was baked blood.
The Museum, which exhibits, at least 111 mummies is located directly above the place where it was first discovered mummies. This Museum also houses the smallest mummy in the world – the foetus of a pregnant woman who was a victim of cholera. Some of the mummies exhibited preserved the clothes in which they were buried. The mummies of Guanajuato are a notable part of Mexican popular culture, as well as possible underlining the national holiday “Day of the dead (El Dia de los Muertos).
