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Show Finding Mummies in Mexico. Mummified remains of persons who existed hundreds of years ago have been dug up in the work of excavating that has been going on in the old catacombs cata-combs of Guanajuato, Mexico. The people whose bodies were discovered must have lived long before the settlement set-tlement of the republic, and the finds have occasioned much interest among scientific men. Some of the bodies were decked with beads and ivory trinkets that were in vogue before the coming of the Spaniards, so these people peo-ple must have lived In that part of the country many centuries ago. The mummies were discovered under an old cemetery while excavations were being made by some prospecting miners. |