Cemetery workers put a total of 111 mummies on display for tourists by the early 20th century. In 1968, a museum called El Museo de las Momias opened to house the Guanajuato mummies.

Mining and mummies. Guanajuato is Mexico’s city of silver. The Spanish began mining it here in the 1520s, and mines are still open today. A couple of miles north of town, ...

The Mexican poet Octavio Paz once said, “In the United States the word death burns the lips, but the Mexican is familiar with death, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, and celebrates ...

GUANAJUATO, Mexico – Throughout Mexico in the fall, you will see various calaveras, skeletons and bones. They are cultural symbols of the country’s iconic holiday, Dia de Muertos or Day of the ...

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The most disturbing thing about visiting the Mummy Museum in Guanajuato, Mexico, isn’t the mummies themselves. After three visits in 10 years, I’ve grown accustomed to the mummies — more ...

A row has broken out in Mexico after the arm of a mummy in a museum ‘fell off’.. The country’s federal archaeology agency has accused the city of Guanajuato of mistreating one of the country ...

Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) has accused Guanajuato’s Museo de las Momias of not following conservation protocol in a recent reconfiguration of its displays ...

Mexico's federal archaeology agency accused the conservative-governed city of Guanajuato of mistreating one of the country’s famous mummified 19th century bodies. Skip Navigation Share on Facebook ...

Bodies that were naturally mummified at a cemetery in Guanajuato, Mexico, are featured in an exhibition that will open later this month in Dallas' West End Marketplace. It’s not often that a ...

This is a marvelous old Spanish colonial city in the heart of central Mexico-marvelous in its sense of history, its brooding Moorish architecture, its precarious grace. It hangs on the slopes of a ...

FILE - Mummies are displayed in the Mummy Museum in Guanajuato, Mexico, Saturday, Nov. 1, 2008. Author: Associated Press Published: 8:25 PM CDT May 27, 2024 ...