Mummies

Here are the mummies! I like to think they are more like mummified corpses, but they call them mummies. They are mostly female, but a few babies and males are in the mix. The first picture is the hall of mummies. The second picture is the only one that was actually buried in the dirt, thus a little more bone is exposed. I won't lie, it was kind of creepy in this place. My spanish is no bueno, but the story goes something like this: A while back (few hundred years) people died, and they stored them in an underground tomb. There was a sort of death tax that was necessary to be paid before they would bury the dead. Also there is some issue with nobody claiming the bodies (probably they could not pay the tax). So, due to the composition of the soil and rock of the mountains here, the bodies naturally mumified. People started hearing rumors of the mummies and would come from far away to see the site. The people here thought it would be a good idea to charge admission, and now they have the museam. Some are still wearing their clothes, but most are pretty well naked because their clothes deteriorated. Kind of a must see if you ever happen to be in the center of Mexico, but I can say once is enough.