Thursday, May 08, 2008
Discovery of Mummies at Durango, Mexico, 1848
The Texan Star states that a Million mummies have been discovered in the environs of Durango, Mexico. They are in a sitting posture, but have the same wrappings, bands and ornaments, as the Egyptians. Among them was found a sculptured head, with a poignard of flint, chaplets, necklaces &c, of alternated colored beads, fragments of bone polished like ivory, fine worked elastic tissues, (probably our modern India rubber cloth,) moccasins worked like those of our Indians today, bones of vipers, &c. It remains to continue these interesting researches and America will become another Egypt to antiquaries, and her ruins will go back to the oldest period of the world, showing, doubtless, that the ancestors of the Montezuma lived in the Nile.
Is the above one of the playful paragraphs of our “American Fast Man,” or is it true?From the Boston Evening Transcript, August 4, 1848. Also reported, with slight differences, in the Gentleman’s Magazine, Vol XII, July to December, 1939.
posted by Prof. Hex at 5:36 PM
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