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Mummy collection returned to Mexico

Agencia EFEApril 23, 2013 14:03
Mexico City, Apr 23 (EFE).- A collection of 36 mummies belonging to Guanajuato, a city in central Mexico, has been returned from the United States, officials told Efe. The "traveling mummies," as they are known in Guanajuato, arrived at the Mexico City airport from Chicago on Sunday under "extremely tight security to ensure their perfect state of preservation," an airport spokesman said. Guanajuato's Mummy Museum signed a deal in 2009 with a businessman who planned to exhibit the mummies at museums in the United States.

Japan woman put skeleton brother in trash

April 3, 2013 00:30
A Japanese woman who lived with her brother's mummified body for years tried to dispose of his corpse with household rubbish when she finally realised he was dead, police and reports said Wednesday. The woman, 49, said she discovered the desiccated cadaver of Masao Tadano as she and another sister tried to move house last November, a police officer told AFP. It was not known how many years Tadano, who would have been 48 at the time, had been dead, but it was long enough for his body to have become skeletonised, the officer said.

World's 'ugliest woman' buried in Mexico 150 years after her death

February 13, 2013 19:49
By Gabriel Stargardter MEXICO CITY, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The "ugliest woman in the world" was buried in her native northern Mexico on Tuesday, more than 150 years after her death and a tragic life spent exhibited as a freak of nature at circuses around the world. Born in Mexico in 1834, Julia Pastrana suffered from hypertrichosis and gingival hyperplasia, diseases that gave her copious facial hair and a thick-set jaw. These features led to her being called a "bear woman" or "ape woman".

Remains of Mexican 'ape woman' return home from Europe

February 11, 2013 21:45
The remains of Julia Pastrana, a Mexican who was paraded in fairs and circuses as the "ape woman" in 19th century Europe, have returned home from Norway 153 years after her death. Pastrana suffered from a rare disease -- congenital generalized hypertrichosis terminalis, or CGHT -- that covered her face and body with thick hair and gave her fat lips and gums. Born in 1834, the woman, who measured 1.34 meters (four feet, five inches) and had a gift for dancing and singing, was brought to Europe by an American businessman to be shown in circuses and fairs.
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