“The renovations brought no new damage to the mummies,” Jesús Antonio Borja Pérez, Guanajuato’s director of culture and education, tells The Art Newspaper.

In the case of the Guanajuato mummies, the subjects only had to wait a few hundred years, and were not so much discovered as evicted. From 1865 to 1958, the town of Guanajuato, Mexico, required ...

Mummies are displayed in the Mummy Museum in Guanajuato, Mexico, on Nov. 1, 2008. In Mexico, the federal archeology agency accused the conservative government of Guanajuato state on May 27, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Ken Ellingwood reports in a ‘Foreign Exchange’ story in today ...

Beckett and Quinnipiac colleague Jerry Conlogue have studied two-thirds of the roughly 110 mummies in the Guanajuato museum's collection. But preparations for the Detroit exhibit offered a closer ...

Loma and I spent a quiet moment marveling at a solid-gold altar at Iglesia de San Cayetano, the churrigueresco-style church on the outskirts of Guanajuato. We weren”t certain what ...

Guanajuato’s mummies are nothing like Egypt’s. They weren’t specially wrapped or embalmed, and they’re not very old. In the late 1800s, the city levied a tax on mausoleums and when some ...

For example, most Egyptian mummies were mummified intentionally at the end of their life, but the Guanajuato mummies were mummified unintentionally thanks to dry, mineral-rich crypts. This isn't ...

The Mexican poet Octavio Paz once said, “In the United States the word death burns the lips, but the Mexican is familiar with death, jokes about it, caresses it, sleeps with it, and celebrates ...

The Mummies of Guanajuato are a unique collection of mummies from the 1800s, the Associated Press reported. The deceased were accidentally mummified after being “buried in crypts in dry, ...