The museum can be found in almost every city. Often, museums display works of art, works of famous masters, and so on. But some museums contain completely different exhibits. Looking at them, a person experiences horror, interest and craving for the supernatural. One of these institutions is the Museum of Screaming Mummies, located in the small Mexican town of Guanajuato.
Guanajuato is located in the central part of Mexico, 350 kilometers from the capital. In the sixteenth century, the Spaniards conquered these lands from the Aztecs, after which they founded Fort Santa Fe on them. This land attracted the Spaniards because the most valuable mines were located on it, in which it was possible to extract tons of gold and silver.
History of the city of Guanajuato
The Aztecs called the area described above Kuanas Huato, which means "a place where frogs live among the hills." When the Spaniards conquered the lands, they renamed them and began to extract gold from them for the king. In the eighteenth century, the precious mines were almost completely depleted. Gold miners turned their attention to silver, of which there was still plenty left in the mines. For several centuries, the Spanish town was considered the richest and most profitable. It was decorated in every possible way with architecture, which has partially survived to this day.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, Mexico gained independence, thanks to which ordinary peasants were able to get rid of their colonial status. Since then, a lot has changed: the government has established new orders, carried out reforms, and so on. Only one thing has remained unchanged: the desire of the rich to increase their incomes. Taxes have risen continuously. Since 1865, even places in the cemetery have become paid, which ordinary people were especially dissatisfied with. Now, if they didn’t pay for a place in the cemetery, after five years the body of the deceased was exhumed and transferred to the basement. If the relatives were able to pay off a huge debt, the body was returned to the grave.
The victims of the new law were the lonely dead
The bodies of the dead, who simply had no relatives, were the first to suffer. The second to suffer were those whose relatives could not pay a huge fee by the standards of that time. At first, the bones of the exhumed lay peacefully in the basement. Then the enterprising owners of the cemetery decided to make "museums" out of the cellars, visiting which one could "enjoy" the most terrible exhibits. Since 1969, terrible exhibits have been shown to eyewitnesses openly, without hiding from law enforcement agencies. The cellars were combined into a single museum, which received official status.
Creepy remains of unfortunate people
The number of bodies to be exhumed was incredibly huge. Far from all those "expelled from the cemetery" were transferred to the museum. Only the most terrible bodies were selected there, which could attract attention and at the same time shock wealthy visitors. Only those corpses were placed behind the glass of the museum, which did not decompose during their stay in the grave, but naturally turned into mummies. It should be noted that in Mexico the dead were not embalmed on purpose, since this was costly and wrong from the point of view of religion.
The most famous "flashy" exhibits
The first and most famous exhibit of the creepy museum is the body of Dr. Remigo Leroy, who was quite rich during his lifetime. Unfortunately, he did not have relatives left who could pay for a place in the cemetery, so he was exhumed, despite his financial condition. They dug up Leroy in 1865. The body was originally designated as "Storage Unit No. 214".
On the exhibit described above, you can see the suit in relatively good condition. It is sewn from expensive fabric, which is why it has been preserved for so long. Most of the "screaming" exhibits do not have clothes, as they simply rotted in due time. Some of the robes were confiscated by museum workers, commenting on the fact that they carry too much death. The disgusting aroma could not be killed with chemicals.
The people whose remains can now be seen in the museum in Guanajuato died for various reasons. Some were killed by the cholera epidemic in 1833, others died from occupational diseases of the miners. In addition, there are the remains of those who died a natural death from old age. The most interesting thing is that there are much more women in this museum than men. In those days, the fair sex had a more difficult life.
Scientists were unable to identify all the remains, but they did establish the identity of some. For example, the remains of Ignacia Aguilar. This woman during her lifetime was a decent mother, a good wife and mistress. When her body was exhumed, they were very frightened, as she was lying in a strange position: her hands were pressed to her face, and her clothes were pulled up. The researchers suggested that she was buried alive, confusing death with a lethargic dream. Blood clots were found in Ignasia's mouth. Most likely, she woke up already in a coffin, tried to get out, and when she realized that it was useless, in a panic and from lack of air, she tore her mouth with her hands.
No less sad was the fate of another interesting exhibit, also a woman who was strangled. Fragments of the rope remained around her neck, which was not even removed from her during the funeral. Museum workers say that at the other end of the room there is the severed head of her husband, who turned out to be a murderer, for which he was executed.
It should be noted that open mouths, supposedly screaming, are not always a sign of death in terrible agony. Even a calmly deceased person can get such a frightening expression on his face if his jaw is tied up badly.
There are many cities that are famous for their museums. The tiny town of Guanajuato is also world famous. But there are no ancient artifacts or famous paintings in it. The exhibits of this museum are the dead. And it is located in the local cemetery of Santa Paula ...
The town of Guanajuato is located in Central Mexico, 350 kilometers from the capital. In the middle of the 16th century, the Spaniards recaptured these lands from the Aztecs and founded Fort Santa Fe. The Spaniards had every reason to hold on tightly to the town: the land was famous for its gold and silver mines.
Where the metal is mined
Before the Aztecs, the Chichimecas and Purépecha lived and mined precious metals here, the name of their town was translated like this - “the place where the metal is mined”. Then the Aztecs came, set up gold mining almost on an industrial scale and renamed the town Kuanas Huato - "the abode of frogs among the hills." In the Columbian era, the Aztecs were replaced by the Spaniards. They built a powerful fortress and began to mine gold for the Spanish crown. By the 18th century, gold in the mines was depleted, silver began to be mined. The town was considered rich. Spanish settlers built it to outshine the beauty of their native Toledo. And they succeeded - beautiful cathedrals, palaces, tall fortress walls. The city, located in a green valley, climbed the "frog hills", the streets going up were built like stairs - with steps. Palaces, however, were side by side with tiny houses, one above the other, stuck to the slopes of the hills. It was a paradise for the wealthy inhabitants of Nova - and a hell for the poor. All these poor people worked in the mines. Most of the poor dreamed of throwing off the colonial yoke. This was achieved by the middle of the 19th century. Mexico gained independence. A new time and a new order have begun. However, it turned out that the rich had not gone away. The beggars still worked in the mines. Taxes kept going up. And since 1865, local gravediggers introduced an annual payment for a place in the cemetery. Now, in the event that no payment was received for the burial for 5 years, the deceased was removed from the crypt and placed in the basement. Inconsolable relatives could return the body to the grave ... if they paid the debt. Alas, not everyone could do it! The first victims of the new law were the dead, who had no relatives. The next are the bankrupt dead. Their bones lay in the basement until the enterprising owners of the cemetery began to show their dead compatriots to everyone who wanted to. Of course, secretly and for money. And then - no longer a secret. Since 1969, the cemetery cellar has been converted and received the status of a museum...
Scary exhibits
There were many dead to be expelled from the crypts. But not all "exiles" were awarded a place in the museum. There were just over a hundred of them. And the reason for placing these dead in the museum's glass cases was not trivial: during their stay in the crypt, the bodies of the dead did not disintegrate, as dead flesh should, but turned into mummies. These were mummies of natural origin - they were not embalmed after death, they were not anointed with special compounds, but simply put in a coffin. And if what usually happens with corpses happened to most of the dead, then these bodies naturally mummified.
The first exhibit is considered to be the once well-to-do deceased, Dr. Remigio Leroy. The poor fellow simply had no relatives. It was dug up in 1865 and given the inventory number "item 214". The doctor even preserved a suit made of expensive fabric. The costumes and dresses on other exhibits were either almost not preserved, or were seized by museum workers. According to one of them, there was such a smell from things that no sanitation would have helped. So most of the decayed clothes were stripped from the corpses and destroyed. That is why many of the dead are brought naked to curious tourists. True, socks and shoes were not removed from some of them - shoes did not suffer so much from time to time.
Among the exhibits there are those who died during the cholera epidemic in 1833, there are those who died from occupational diseases of miners who inhaled silver dust every day, there are those who died of old age, there are those who died as a result of an accident, there are strangled, there are drowned. And there are far more women among them than men.
Few exhibits have been identified by scientists. Among them is a woman with her hands pressed to her mouth, her shirt pulled up and her legs apart. This is Ignasia Aguilar, quite respectable mother of the family. The strange posture is simply explained by many: at the time of the burial, Ignasia was in a deep faint or fell into a lethargic sleep. She must have been buried alive. The woman woke up already in the coffin, scratching its lid, screaming, trying to escape from captivity. When she began to run out of air, she tried to tear her own mouth out in pain. Blood clots were found in the mouth. Scientists are going to investigate the substance extracted from under her nails: if it turns out to be wood or coffin lining, then a terrible guess will be confirmed.
The fate of another museum exhibit, also a woman, is no less sad. She was suffocated. There is still a piece of rope around her neck. According to the museum legend, the head of the executed man on display belongs to the strangler husband.
Another curious exhibit is a screaming woman. The mouth of this mummy is open, although the arms are folded across the chest. The faint of heart, when they first see a screaming mummy, recoil in fear. Despite the calm position of the hands, the facial expression of this exhibit is such that even some experts suspect that the woman was also buried alive...
Pharaoh's son and others
However, distorted facial features and mouths open in a silent scream are not always an indication that a person was buried alive. There is a story that happened in 1886 with the Egyptologist Gaston Maspero. He discovered the mummy of a young man with his hands and feet bound, his face twisted, probably in pain, and his mouth wide open. In addition, the mummy was nameless and wrapped in a sheep's skin, which is uncharacteristic for. The archaeologist decided that the unfortunate man had been buried alive. The terrible expression on his face suggested that the conspirator was not even mummified. However, nowadays forensic doctors scanned the body and found all signs of mummification. Therefore, he was not buried alive. And the terrible expression on his face is due to the fact that this is most likely the eldest son of Pharaoh Ramses III, worthy of oblivion, who was allowed to commit suicide with poison after an unsuccessful attempt on his father.
But an open mouth may not speak of terrible torment at all. Even a calmly deceased person can get a frightening expression of "silent scream" if the deceased's jaw is poorly tied up. The exposition of the Mexican museum contains at least two dozen mummies with "screaming" mouths. There are men, women and even children among them.
The bulk of the mummies of Guanajuato, of which there are 111, do not reach not only 200, but also 150 years. These are the youngest mummies that have arisen naturally. Only a few children, the so-called "angels", have traces of post-mortem intervention - internal organs were removed from them. In general, the bodies mummified themselves. In the 19th century, when the first such bodies were found, the question “why” did not arise among people. They looked at the mummified remains with reverence - it was considered a miracle and evidence of a sinless life. But today, scientists still decided to solve the riddle.
It is known that the mummified bodies were not buried in the ground. All of them were in crypts going to the cemetery by "floors". The crypts are made of limestone. The town of Guanajuato is located at an altitude of 2 kilometers above sea level, the climate is hot and dry. The conclusion of scientists is as follows: mummification is not connected either with the lifestyle of the dead, or with age, or with nutrition, but depends purely on the time of year when the body was placed in the crypt, and on the design of the crypt. If the burial took place in dry and hot weather, limestone slabs reliably block the access of air and perfectly absorb moisture coming from the body. Inside such a crypt it is dry and hot, like in an oven. The body in such a "house of death" is perfectly dried and very soon turns into a mummy. True, this process does not always have a beneficial effect on facial expressions - the muscles also dry out, tighten, facial features are distorted, and parted mouths become twisted and open in a desperate silent scream.
There are many cities that are famous for their museums. Tiny town of Guanajuato in Mexico also world famous. But there are no ancient artifacts or famous paintings in it. The exhibits of this museum are the dead. And it is located in the local cemetery of Santa Paula.
The town of Guanajuato is located in Central Mexico, 350 kilometers from the capital. In the middle of the 16th century, the Spaniards recaptured these lands from the Aztecs and founded Fort Santa Fe. The Spaniards had every reason to hold on tightly to the town: the land was famous for its gold and silver mines.
Where the metal is mined
Before the Aztecs, the Chichimecas and Purépecha lived and mined precious metals here, the name of their town was translated like this - “the place where the metal is mined”. Then the Aztecs came, set up gold mining almost on an industrial scale and renamed the town Kuanas Huato - "the abode of frogs among the hills." In the Columbian era, the Aztecs were replaced by the Spaniards.
They built a powerful fortress and began to mine gold for the Spanish crown. By the 18th century, gold in the mines was depleted, silver began to be mined. The town was considered rich. Spanish settlers built it to outshine the beauty of their native Toledo. And they succeeded - beautiful cathedrals, palaces, tall fortress walls.
The city, located in a green valley, climbed the "frog hills", the streets going up were built like stairs - with steps. Palaces, however, were side by side with tiny houses, one above the other, stuck to the slopes of the hills. It was heaven for the wealthy in New Spain - and hell for the poor. All these poor people worked in the mines.
Most of the poor dreamed of throwing off the colonial yoke. This was achieved by the middle of the 19th century. Mexico gained independence. A new time and a new order have begun. However, it turned out that the rich had not gone away. The beggars still worked in the mines. Taxes kept going up.
And since 1865, local gravediggers introduced an annual payment for a place in the cemetery. Now, in the event that no payment was received for the burial for 5 years, the deceased was removed from the crypt and placed in the basement. Inconsolable relatives could return the body to the grave ... if they paid the debt.
Alas, not everyone could do it! The first victims of the new law were the dead, who had no relatives. The next are the bankrupt dead. Their bones lay in the basement until the enterprising owners of the cemetery began to show their dead compatriots to everyone who wanted to. Of course, secretly and for money. And then - no longer a secret. Since 1969, the cemetery cellar has been converted and received the status of a museum.
Scary exhibits
There were many dead to be expelled from the crypts. But not all "exiles" were awarded a place in the museum. There were just over a hundred of them. And the reason for placing these dead in the museum's glass cases was not trivial: during their stay in the crypt, the bodies of the dead did not disintegrate, as dead flesh should, but turned into mummies.
These were mummies of natural origin - they were not embalmed after death, they were not anointed with special compounds, but simply put in a coffin. And if what usually happens with corpses happened to most of the dead, then these bodies naturally mummified.
The first exhibit is considered to be the once well-to-do deceased, Dr. Remigio Leroy. The poor fellow simply had no relatives. It was dug up in 1865 and given the inventory number "item 214". The doctor even preserved a suit made of expensive fabric.
The costumes and dresses on other exhibits were either almost not preserved, or were seized by museum workers. According to one of them, there was such a smell from things that no sanitation would have helped. So most of the decayed clothes were stripped from the corpses and destroyed. That is why many of the dead are brought naked to curious tourists. True, socks and shoes were not removed from some of them - shoes did not suffer so much from time to time.
Among the exhibits there are those who died during the cholera epidemic in 1833, there are those who died from occupational diseases of miners who inhaled silver dust every day, there are those who died of old age, there are those who died as a result of an accident, there are strangled, there are drowned. And there are far more women among them than men.
Few exhibits have been identified by scientists. Among them is a woman with her hands pressed to her mouth, her shirt pulled up and her legs apart. This is Ignasia Aguilar, quite respectable mother of the family. The strange posture is simply explained by many: at the time of the burial, Ignasia was in a deep faint or fell into a lethargic sleep. She must have been buried alive.
The woman woke up already in the coffin, scratching its lid, screaming, trying to escape from captivity. When she began to run out of air, she tried to tear her own mouth out in pain. Blood clots were found in the mouth. Scientists are going to investigate the substance extracted from under her nails: if it turns out to be wood or coffin lining, then a terrible guess will be confirmed.
The fate of another museum exhibit, also a woman, is no less sad. She was suffocated. There is still a piece of rope around her neck. According to the museum legend, the head of the executed man on display belongs to the strangler husband.
Another curious exhibit is a screaming woman. The mouth of this mummy is open, although the arms are folded across the chest. The faint of heart, when they first see a screaming mummy, recoil in fear. Despite the calm position of the hands, the facial expression of this exhibit is such that even some experts suspect that the woman was also buried alive...
Pharaoh's son and others
However, distorted facial features and mouths open in a silent scream are not always an indication that a person was buried alive. There is a story that happened in 1886 with the Egyptologist Gaston Maspero. He discovered the mummy of a young man with his hands and feet bound, his face twisted, probably in pain, and his mouth wide open.
In addition, the mummy was nameless and wrapped in a sheep's skin, which is not typical for Egypt. The archaeologist decided that the unfortunate man had been buried alive. The terrible expression on his face suggested that the conspirator was not even mummified.
However, nowadays forensic doctors scanned the body and found all signs of mummification. Therefore, he was not buried alive. And the terrible expression on his face is due to the fact that this is most likely the eldest son of Pharaoh Ramses III, worthy of oblivion, who was allowed to commit suicide with poison after an unsuccessful attempt on his father.
But an open mouth may not speak of terrible torment at all. Even a calmly deceased person can get a frightening expression of "silent scream" if the deceased's jaw is poorly tied up. The exposition of the Mexican Museum has at least two dozen mummies with "screaming" mouths. There are men, women and even children among them.
The bulk of the mummies of Guanajuato, of which there are 111, do not reach not only 200, but also 150 years. These are the youngest mummies that have arisen naturally. Only a few children, the so-called "angels", have traces of post-mortem intervention - internal organs were removed from them.
In general, the bodies mummified themselves. In the 19th century, when the first such bodies were found, the question “why” did not arise among people. They looked at the mummified remains with reverence - it was considered a miracle and evidence of a sinless life. But today, scientists still decided to solve the riddle.
It is known that the mummified bodies were not buried in the ground. All of them were in crypts going to the cemetery by "floors". The crypts are made of limestone. The town of Guanajuato is located at an altitude of 2 kilometers above sea level, the climate is hot and dry.
The conclusion of scientists is as follows: mummification is not connected either with the lifestyle of the dead, or with age, or with nutrition, but depends purely on the time of year when the body was placed in the crypt, and on the design of the crypt. If the burial took place in dry and hot weather, limestone slabs reliably block the access of air and perfectly absorb moisture coming from the body.
Inside such a crypt it is dry and hot, like in an oven. The body in such a "house of death" is perfectly dried and very soon turns into a mummy. True, this process does not always have a beneficial effect on facial expressions - the muscles also dry out, tighten, facial features are distorted, and parted mouths become twisted and open in a desperate silent scream.
Nikolay KOTOMKIN
As promised in a previous post, today I will talk about the main attraction of the most beautiful city in Mexico -. It's about a truly shocking Mexican freak show - Museum of Mummies(Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato). I warn you: impressionable people, with a sensitive psyche, pregnant women and nursing mothers should refrain from viewing this post. It contains many photographs. people's bodies, who left our mortal world about 100-150 years ago, and this will hardly benefit you. The rest - welcome, but preferably not looking at night
It all started with the mid 19th century city authorities Guanajuato burial tax was introduced. This meant that the dead citizens were buried in local cemeteries not for thanks, but on the terms of a paid extension of their grave-place. Since the dead themselves, for obvious reasons, cannot pay for themselves, their relatives had to do this. If the relatives did not have the opportunity or desire to pay, and in some cases, in fact, the relatives themselves were not found, then the body of the deceased was exhumed. Imagine the surprise of the cemetery workers when, instead of a pile of bones, they had to extract almost brand new dead from the graves, many of which had hair, teeth, nails and even clothes! An explanation was quickly found for an amazing fact: it turned out that the unique composition of the soil and climate Guanajuato contributes to the natural process of mummification of the bodies buried here. And no mysticism.
The law obliging relatives to pay a cemetery tax was in force from 1865 to 1958, and it was during this time that the "fund" of the future museum was formed: 111 mummies buried during the period 1850-1950s(according to some reports, citizens who died during the cholera epidemic in 1833). The mummified dead were kept in a room at the cemetery, which gradually began to attract tourists who wanted to visit it for a few pesos. That's how this one came to be one of the scariest in the world, museum.
Now exhibited in the museum 59 mummies, several of which are mummy children(At this point, think again if you want to scroll down). Some of them are equipped with tablets on which it is written in the first person: I am such and such, I gave my soul to God then and then, my debarked earthly shell was removed from the mother of damp earth then and then.
A visit to the museum begins with a corridor of mummies, behind the glass of which there are almost identical, especially unremarkable, dead bodies. On all of them, the skin was preserved, soft and silky, which, of course, cannot be called, but still; some comrades stand with their hair and legs, and the one on the far right flaunts in codpieces and boots, in which, obviously, he was sent to a better world.
Further, there are characters much more interesting. For example, this one, the best preserved, is in a leather jacket. If not for some inconsistencies in years, one would think that during his lifetime the guy was a rocker.
We go further and see no less interesting exhibits: some of the dead are comfortably located in the coffin, someone attracts attention with a remarkably preserved toilet, and one of them who has departed to another world lures visitors to the museum with its oblique, almost to the waist. 
Next, go to the gallery with the name Angelitos, in which, as you might guess, are stored baby mummies. According to the local tradition, the dead children were dressed up with festive clothes - boys in costumes of saints, girls in costumes of angels, believing that in this way their sinless souls would quickly go to heaven.
But I was much more shocked by the photographs on the walls of this hall, telling about the tradition that existed at that time - to take pictures with already dead babies as a keepsake. I immediately remembered an episode from my favorite horror film “The Others”, where the same thing was supposed to be done with the dead of any age. It's creepy, in general.
In the next room is the mummy of a woman who died in late pregnancy and her unborn child - smallest mummy in the world.
Quite a peculiar impression is produced by the next hall with mummies of people, who died not by their own death. Here, for example, is an exposition of a buried alive (left), a drowned man (middle) and a man who died from a head injury (right). With the third, everything is already clear, but how the other two comrades who subsequently mummified died, their extremely unnatural poses speak of. The mummy on the left is a woman who fell into a lethargic sleep and was buried by mistake, the position of her hands indicates an attempt to get out of such an unfortunate situation for her. By the position of the drowned man, one can judge that in the last seconds of his life he was very short of breath.
Two of those killed still had shoes. But what are their shoes compared to these exquisite examples of the shoe industry of that time?!
Many of you will probably want to ask the question: Was it scary to walk around the museum? I answer - it's not scary. There were moments when I was completely alone in any living room: my husband, barely crossing the threshold, galloped out of the museum, and there were so few other visitors that we didn’t interfere with each other at all. I felt absolutely unperturbed, and only one single thought haunted me from beginning to end: and THIS is how it ends! Might sound loud, but from a museum of death I left with a somewhat changed outlook on life.
Surely many of you reading this post will think that Mexicans are crazy. Anticipating your surprise, indignation, perhaps even indignation, I cannot but put in a good word for them. The fact is that Mexicans generally have a rather peculiar attitude towards death: they perceive it not just calmly, but, one might say, optimistically. What is absurd and even shocking for us, people of a different culture, is a natural part of their life for Mexicans. The tradition not to be afraid, but even "to be friends" with death goes back to the beliefs of their ancestors. The ancient Indians believed that death is the beginning of something greater, and it is much more important than life. AT Mexico even a holiday is appropriate - when they pay tribute to death and even flirt a little with it. If you try to look at things through the eyes of a Mexican, then even this museum does not look so terrible.
In general, as you may already guess, this is not the last post on the topic of Mexicans and death .. And now some useful information for those who want to visit the mummy museum.
Where is the Mummy Museum located?
The Mummies Museum (Museo de las Momias de Guanajuato) is located in the city of Guanajuato. How to get to Guanajuato, I wrote. The museum is located next to the cemetery - Panteón. Signs lead to the Museum of Mummies from absolutely anywhere in the city.
How much does it cost to visit the Mummies Museum in Guanajuato:
The entrance ticket to the Museum of Mummies costs 52 Mexican pesos, photography is paid - 20 pesos.
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A mummy is a body of a living creature specially treated with a chemical substance, in which the process of tissue decomposition slows down. Mummies are stored for hundreds and even thousands of years, carrying the history of our ancestors, their customs and appearance. On the one hand, mummies look terribly scary, sometimes goosebumps run from one glance, on the other hand, they keep the most interesting history of the ancient world. We have compiled a list of 13 of the most creepy and at the same time the most interesting mummies ever discovered in the world:
13. Guanajuato Mummies Museum, Mexico
Photo 13. Guanajuato Mummies Museum - 59 mummies that died in 1850-1950 are on display [blogspot.ru]The Guanajuato Mummies Museum in Mexico is one of the strangest and most terrible in the world, with about 111 mummies (59 of which are on display) that died between 1850 and 1950. The distorted facial expressions on some of the mummies indicate that they were buried alive. Hundreds of thousands of tourists visit the museum every year.
12. Baby mummy in Qilakitsoq, Greenland
Photo 12. Mummy of a 6-month-old boy in Greenland (Qilakitsoq township) [Choffa] Another example of a living burial is a 6-month-old boy found in Greenland. Nearby, 3 more mummies of women were found, perhaps one of them is the boy's mother, with whom he was buried alive (according to the Eskimo customs of that time). The mummies are dated 1460. Thanks to the icy climate of Greenland, the clothes of that time are well preserved. In total, 78 pieces of clothing made from the skins of animals, such as seals and deer, were found. There were small tattoos on the faces of adults, but the face of a child is just awful!
11. Rosalia Lombardo, Italy
Photo 11. 2-year-old girl who died in 1920 from pneumonia [Maria lo sposo] Little Rosalia was only 2 years old when she died of pneumonia in 1920 in Palermo (Sicily). The saddened father instructed the famous embalmer Alfred Salafia to mummify the body of Rosalia Lombardo.
10. Mummy with a painted face, Egypt
Photo 10. The mummy from Egypt is presented in the British Museum [Klafubra] When we think about mummies, the first thing that comes to mind is Egypt. Many films have been made featuring these surviving corpses, which, bandaged in bandages, come back to life, attacking civilians. The photo shows one of the typical representatives of mummies (the exhibit is on display at the British Museum).
9. Christian Friedrich von Kalbutz, Germany
Photo 9. Knight Christian, Germany [B. Schroeren] The photo shows the German knight Christian, an aura of mystery surrounds this terrible look of the mummy.
8. Ramses II, Egypt
Photo 8. The mummy of the Egyptian pharaoh - Ramses the Great [ThutmoseIII] The mummy shown in the photo belongs to Pharaoh Ramses II (Ramses the Great), who died in 1213 BC. and is one of the most famous Egyptian pharaohs. It is believed that he was the ruler of Egypt during the campaign of Moses and is represented as such in many works of art. One of the distinguishing features of the mummy is the presence of red hair, symbolizing the connection with the god Set, the patron saint of royal power.
7. Skrydstrup woman, Denmark
Photo 7. Mummy of a girl 18-19 years old, Denmark [Sven Rosborn] Mummy of a woman 18-19 years old, buried in Denmark in 1300 BC. From her clothes and jewelry, it can be assumed that she belonged to the family of the leader. The girl was buried in an oak coffin, so her body and clothes are surprisingly well preserved.
6. Ginger, Egypt
Photo 6. Mummy of an Egyptian adult [Jack1956] The mummy of Ginger “Ginger” is an Egyptian mummy of an adult male who died over 5,000 years ago and was buried in the sand in the desert (at that time the Egyptians had not yet started mummification of corpses).
5. Man Gallah, Ireland
Photo 5. Gallagh man buried in a swamp [Mark J Healey] This strange kind of mummy, known as the Gallagh Man, was discovered in a swamp in Ireland in 1821. The man was buried in a swamp wearing a cloak with a fragment of a willow branch around his neck. Some researchers believe he may have been strangled.
4. Man Rendsvuren, Germany
Photo 4. Man bog Rendsvuren [Bullenwächter] The Rendswühren swamp man, like Gallach the swamp man, was found in a swamp, this time in Germany in 1871. The man was 40-50 years old, it is believed that he was beaten to death, the body was found in the 19th century.
3. Seti I - the pharaoh of ancient Egypt
Photo 3. Seti I - Egyptian pharaoh in the tomb. [underwood and underwood] Seti I ruled 1290-1279 B.C. The pharaoh's mummy was buried in an Egyptian tomb. The Egyptians were skilled embalmers, so we can see their work in our time.
2. Princess Ukok, Altai
Photo 2. Mummy of Princess Ukok [
