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Why does Guanajuato have mummies and the rest of Mexico doesn't?
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The Mummies of Guanajuato are a number of naturally mummified bodies interred during a cholera outbreak around the city, in 1833. All of these mummies were disinterred between 1865 and 1958, when the state law required relatives to pay a tax in order to keep the bodies in the cemetery. If the relatives could not pay this tax, they would lose the right to the burial place, and the dead bodies were disinterred. Ninety percent of the bodies in the cemetery were disinterred because their relatives did not pay such tax.
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166 mummies the rest are all daddies
Where does mummy put to rest?
There were several places. The most famous are the Egyptian pyramids, but only a small minority of (royal) mummies were put to rest there. Most were buried in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, in subterranean graves dug out in the rock. Non-royal mummies were interred in dug-out tombs elsewhere. Mayan and Inca mummies have been found in caves high in the mountains where the cold climate preserved them.
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The Baja California peninsula.
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Mexico; it is in North America while the rest are located in Africa.
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gulf of california
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bout 20 per city, rest are in america
