The Guanche mummy went on display at Madrid’s National Archaeological Museum (MAN) in 2015. It is the preserved remains of a 35-40-year-old person who it is believed lived between the 12th and ...
The Guanches were the first known inhabitants of the Canary Islands, but their true origins have baffled archaeologists. Their mummification rituals saw them linked to the Ancient Egyptians ...
A member of the Guanches, the mummy belonged to the indigenous people who inhabited the Canary Islands from the first millennium BC alone until Spanish colonialism conquered the archipelago in the ...