Guanajuato is also famous for its mummies, discovered in 1865 when work began to enlarge the city’s cemetery. It was eventually concluded that a combination of a soil rich in minerals and quite dry air made it possible for a corpse to be mummified in the Guanajuato earth in only five years. Today the Mummy Museum exhibits grotesque corpses recovered from that old cemetery.
This museum contains a collection of mummified corpses encased in glass caskets. There are about one hundred mummies on show and all are very well preserved due to the mineral salts in the soil where they were found.
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