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old and dry People Carried A Mummy A Thousand Years Before Sticking It In This Pyramid Archaeologists keep finding old Mesoamerican pyramids. In Mexico, the mega famous pyramids are in Tenochtitlan and Chichen Itza, but plenty more keep popping up. The House of the Thirteen Heavens, near San Miguel de Allende, was pretty much unknown before the 2000s. It dates back to the sixth century, and we aren’t even sure just who built it. The structures in this complex contained human remains (no big surprise there). Archaeologists found 19 bodies in there, including a dog. One skeleton, though, was weird. It was a woman, according to DNA evidence; the first examination suggested it was a man. It dated back to the fifth century, BC. The other skeletons date to the sixth century not-B.C.: most of the skeletal residents died and then got entombed in the pyramid, but this one skeleton is almost a thousand years older than the pyramid itself. So, did the people who built the pyramid—the Otomi, speculate archaeologists, but again, no one knows for sure—dig up some grave to stick whatever skeleton they found in their new temple? No, say the archaeologists. Instead, they must have carried this corpse with them, unburied, for a millennium, as they moved from place to place. Finally, they built a resting place worthy of it. It had to have been an important ancestor. Still, if you have any important ancestors of your own hanging around the house, we recommend burial, cremation, cannibalism, anything other than just keeping the body around for fifty generations. For more tales for you pyramid heads, check out: - [5 Mind-Blowing Things You Won't Believe Were Built by Nature]( - [6 Insanely Valuable Real Treasures (And How to Steal Them)]( - [The Great Sulfur Pyramids of Alberta]( Top image: [Erik Reinecke]( Daily Digest ['She Was A Human Being’: How Tom Green Brought Monica Lewinsky In On The Joke]( By Matt Solomon / October 28th, 2022 [‘Every Time Elizabeth Olsen Meets Someone New, She Kicks Them in the Head with Her Feet Hands’: Aubrey Plaza Spills Tea on ‘Colbert’]( By Keegan Kelly / October 27th, 2022 [Door Guys Get Their Due On Comedy Store Anniversary Set]( By Matt Solomon / October 27th, 2022 [20 Wild Facts About Pulp Fiction, Venus Flytraps, And 1930's Muggle-Heads]( By Andrea Meno / October 27th, 2022 [Fred Armisen Might Do a ‘Get Back’ Parody With Him As Ringo]( By Keegan Kelly / October 27th, 2022 [READ MORE]( Want to change how you receive these emails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](. ONE CRACKED FACT | [View in browser]( [fb]( [tw]( [yt]( [Logomark_DIGITAL_Red_50X50-px] [insta png]( [tiktok png]( [ARTICLES]( | [PICTOFACTS]( | [Videos]( Literally media Ltd. 190 West St, Suite 17B, Brooklyn NY 11222 COPYRIGHT © 2005-2021 Cracked is published by Literally media Ltd.