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Guanche mummy of Madrid

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17: 51:. The mummy is a male Guanche in an excellent state of preservation. Is believed to date from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries AD, and belongs to a man between 30 and 34 years and, according to experts, would be the best Guanche preserved mummy in the world. The individual in question, has all his teeth very well preserved, without any wear and tear, has caucasian features (including brown red hair) and his hands that do not reveal that he had done hard physical work. On the part of the 55:(CT) that was made to this mummy revealed that the viscera were not removed to mummify it and that in fact, it conserves the brain, which contradicts some historical Castilian chronicles that tell how was the mummification process between the Guanches. 265: 615: 300: 293: 251: 286: 16: 625: 79: 309: 176: 101: 40: 548: 90: 233: 196: 573: 83: 52: 407: 171: 104:
in December 2015. The mummy is the centerpiece of the space dedicated to the Canarian prehistory of the museum.
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have unsuccessfully bid a number of times for the return of the mummy to Tenerife.
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Barranco Herques between the current municipalities of Fasnia and Güímar.
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Collection of the National Archaeological Museum, Madrid
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is considered the best Guanche mummy found to date.
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mummy
Guanche
National Archaeological Museum of Spain
Madrid
Spain
Computerized axial tomography
Tenerife
Fasnia
Güímar
Charles III of Spain
National Museum of Anthropology
Universal Exhibition of Paris of 1878
Government of the Canary Islands
Cabildo de Tenerife
National Archaeological Museum of Spain
Guanche mummies of Necochea
National Archaeological Museum of Spain
"La momia guanche mejor conservada tiene 850 años"
"La última momia guanche"
"La momia guanche mejor conservada tiene 850 años"
"El Congreso rechaza pedir el traslado a Tenerife de la momia guanche"
"El Museo Arqueológico Nacional expone la momia guanche"
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National Archaeological Museum (Spain)
Guanche mummy
Magacela stele
Bicha of Balazote

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