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Guanche mummy of Madrid it is a Guanche mummy is now on display at the Museo Nacional de Antropología (''National Museum of Anthropology'') in Madrid (Spain). It is a person of masculine sex only for its 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 mummy was found in ''Barraco de Herques'', south of Tenerife, between the towns of Fasnia and Güímar. He arrived in Madrid in the eighteenth century as a gift to King Charles III of Spain.〔(La última momia guanche )〕 It was initially placed in the Royal Library and now in the National Museum of Anthropology. Just as happens with other antiquities, as the Lady of Elche, the Lady of Baza or outside Spain with the bust of Nefertiti, the Rosetta Stone or the Parthenon Frieze, both the Government of the Canary Islands and the Cabildo de Tenerife have he claimed unsuccessfully since 1976 and repeatedly return to Tenerife this mummy.〔(El Congreso rechaza pedir el traslado a Tenerife de la momia guanche )〕 == Mummy data == * Gender: male. * Age: 30 to 34 years or so. * Culture: Guanche. * Type of mummification: ceremonial mummy. * Type of burial: burial cave. * Location: Barranco Herques between the current municipalities of Fasnia and Güímar. * Shown at: The Museo Nacional de Antropología (Madrid). * Interesting facts: is considered the best Guanche mummy found to date. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guanche mummy of Madrid」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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