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Macabre Tourists Flock to Mummy Museum

Mexican exhibit includes 56 fully preserved corpses

By Jason Farago, Newser Staff

Posted Mar 18, 2009 10:22 AM CDT

(Newser) – A Mexican museum tells the story of the local mining industry with an unusual exhibit: 56 mummified corpses. The bodies, from as early as the mid-1800s, were removed from crypts that had been tightly sealed, allowing the bodies to dry intact. Elsewhere mummies might be... Read full story »

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