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Mummies

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = TD

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Mummies at the Pantheon, Guanajuato [Mexico], 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1263
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a corridor full of mummies propped up against the walls at the Pantheon in Guanajuato [Mexico] in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Papers relating to the extraction of a testis sample from mummified remains at the British Museum, 1977-1978

 File
Identifier: Coll-1364/1/6
Scope and Contents

The correspondence is chiefly between Beatty and various individuals in the departments of Zoology, Palaeontology and Anthropology at the British Museum. The letters break off at the point when difficulties had evidently arisen in identifying the mummified specimens in the Museum's catalogues due to wartime damage.

Dates: 1977-1978