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Richmond Palladium
Richmond, Wayne County, Indiana
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Report of the discovery of a million mummies in sitting postures near Durango, Mexico, with wrappings and ornaments similar to Egyptian ones, including a sculptured head, flint poignard, beads, bone fragments, elastic tissues, moccasins, and viper bones. Analogies drawn between Mexicans and Egyptians, suggesting ancient connections to Montezumas and the Nile.
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Discovery of Mummies at Durango, Mexico.
The Texas Star states that a million mummies have been discovered on the environs of Durango, in 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 alternate coloured beads, fragments of bone, polished like ivory, fine worked elastic tissues, probably our modern India rubber cloth, moccasins worked like those of our Indian to-day, bones of vipers, &c. It remains to continue these interesting researches, quarries, and her ruins will go back to the old ancestors of the Montezumas lived on the Nile, period of the world, showing doubtless that the
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Durango, Mexico
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discovery of a million mummies with egyptian-like features and artifacts
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A million mummies discovered in sitting postures on the environs of Durango, Mexico, with wrappings, bands, and ornaments similar to Egyptians. Items found include a sculptured head with flint poignard, chaplets, necklaces of alternate coloured beads, fragments of bone polished like ivory, fine worked elastic tissues possibly India rubber cloth, moccasins like modern Indian ones, and bones of vipers. Analogies between Mexicans and Egyptians suggest ancestors of Montezumas lived on the Nile.