In a museum in a small Mexican town lie more than a hundred corpses dug up in 1865

Guanajuato in central Mexico is a city built into the hills, with houses painted in colorful walls, very beautiful. The city's most famous attraction, however, is a mummy museum.

The mummies inside are not Egyptian; they are ordinary people dug up from the cemetery. Their skin is dry and clings to their bones, their mouths are open, their hair remains, and they wear the clothes they were buried in, with some still wearing shoes on their feet. Some faces still retain what looks like an expression of pain.

The origin is this: in 1865, the city government issued a new rule that cemeteries would charge a "perpetual use tax," and families had to pay every year for their loved ones to continue staying in the grave. If they couldn't pay, the people in the graves would be dug up to make room. As a result, for some families who didn't pay, graves were opened, and people discovered that the bodies inside had not rotted but had naturally dried out.

The reason is that the local climate is dry, the soil is rich in minerals, and the tombs are built above ground with good ventilation, so moisture dissipates quickly.

These bodies were later placed in the basement of the cemetery. At first they were just piled there, but then someone discovered that tourists were very interested in these things, so they began to display them, and gradually it became an attraction. From 1865 until 1958, when the digging stopped, more than a hundred were dug up.

Among them is a female mummy with her hand clenched into a fist and her body twisted in a posture; legend says she was buried alive during a cholera outbreak. No one can confirm it.

There is also a very small one in the museum, a child, said to be one of the smallest mummies in the world.

Visitors come all year round in an endless stream, one by one entering the underground exhibition hall.

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