MUMMIES FOUND IN CAVES

Evening Star, Issue 19918, 14 July 1928, Page 22

MUMMIES FOUND IN CAVES

BARBAROUS DEATH INDICATED The mummified bodies of moro_ than a hundred men, women, and children discovered in a mountain cave near Snn Juan Nepomneena (Mexico) boro .silent witness to their living incarceration. .• The men who braved the foul air of the cavern declared that even the bodies of the women and children showed that their hands bad been bound together with strings about thoir thumbs. , The searchers said they had glimpsed a second cavo leading out of the first in which thev believed there were more bodies, but which they were unable to explore because of lock of oxygon. The discovery that some at least ol those who died had been hound quashed the first theory that the band had boon wiped out in some natural tragedy, such as the blocking of the cavo entrance by an earthquake. Instead arose tho speculation as to who in tho troubled history ot Mexico had inflicted this barbarous death. Tiro voting goat herders who were hunting” for wild honey stumbled on tho mummies. Some were ranged along the walls, the majority were squatting on tho floor, while others were in more distorted positions. Some believe they were placed in thoir living to:ib as early as tho Spanish' Conquest.