Cicero gets date with Mexico’s mummies - Illinois

“Some of Mexico’s most famous dead will head to Cicero in spring for a stay inside the town’s new $50 million municipal center.

The mummies of Guanajuato — legendary in Mexico — are the remains of 119 corpses that have mummified naturally in this dry, hilly region of central Mexico. The mummies were accidental finds: Cemetery workers dug them up after their families stopped paying rent on the plots.”

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