Beaver Press | 1909-04-09 | Page 3 | Mummies from Mexican Ruins

mummies from mexican ruins Mum mummified milled remains ot of beings who existed hundreds of years ago have been dug up during tho the work of excavating cava ting that has bag been going on in the old catacombs cata combs of guanajuato mexico sala said dr S burg of baltimore the people whose bodies were discovered must have lived long before the settlement of the republic and the finds have occasioned much interest among scientific men some of the bodies w were e re decked with beads and ivory trinkets that were in vogue before the coming of the spaniards so that these people must have lived in that part of the country centuries ago the muni mummies were discovered under an old cemetery while the excavations were being made by some prospecting miners