Guanajuato’s mummies are a window on the past
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Ken Ellingwood reports in a ‘Foreign Exchange’ story in today’s Los Angeles Times:
Juan and Remigio and Ignacia and their closest neighbors can tell you a lot about life in this central Mexican mining town. So what if they’re dead? They might be Guanajuato’s most visited residents -- a collection of 56 mummified corpses that survived for years in remarkably good shape and now constitute one of the main tourist draws here.
-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City