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Friday, July 21, 2006
The mummy returns
A very special meeting took place in Madrid last month when Cabildo president Ricardo Melchior visited a museum and came face to face with a Guanche mummy for whose return he has been tirelessly lobbying for months.
The desiccated corpse of the aboriginal, a male of some 35 to 40 years of age, has been in the possession of the National Museum of Anthropology, Ethnography and Natural Sciences in the Spanish capital since the end of the eighteenth century and is said to be unique for its unparalleled state of conservation.
The mummy will eventually be housed in the Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre (Museum of Man & Nature) in Santa Cruz.
The mummy returns
