💡 Lifestyle: did you know · Tenerife · 30.09, 00:59
Guanches mummified the dead; mummies are visible in Santa Cruz
The Guanches were the indigenous inhabitants of the Canary Islands. On Tenerife, they embalmed the dead. Their mummies are displayed in the MUNA museum in Santa Cruz.
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The Guanches spoke a language related to Berber languages. They likely arrived on the islands in the first millennium BC.
On Tenerife, bodies were preserved with a resinous substance. They were then placed in inaccessible caves or under mounds. Many mummies are very desiccated and weigh no more than 3 kg.
The mummies of the island's indigenous inhabitants are in the Museum of Nature and Archaeology (MUNA) in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
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ON THE ESP DISPLAYGuanczowie - rdzenni mieszkancy Kanarow - mumifikowali zmarlych. Mumie: muzeum MUNA w Santa Cruz.