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A few years ago, Mexicans lived an important act as the remains of the most prominent figures of the Mexican revolution were paraded through the streets. Heroes like Miguel Hidalgo, Juan Aldama, Vicente Guerrero, among others, traveled through the streets of the capital. Regardless, a new investigation has uncovered a detail that will generate great doubt and questions.
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A source from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) informed that Mexican scientists have identified among the remains of the heroe of the Mexican independence bones belong to unidentified people and deer. -
Among the remains, kept in the Monument to the Independence, in Mexico City for 102 years, where identified four deer as well as kids, women and adult male, unrelated to the patriotic heroes, said the anthropologist Jose Antonio Pompa. -
In 2010, a group of Mexican scientists, Pompa among them, began anylizing the bones of the heroes, who were exhumed from the Angel de la Independencia, to realize inventory and to study their state of of conservations for the Bicentennial.
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According to Pompa, at first the plan was to identify the human remains, as there were a lot of doubts. THey also wanted to corroborate or discard various historical facts related to Mariano Matamoros and Josea Maria Morelos, as there was doubt about wether their remains were in France or Mexico. -
That study revealed that Matamoros' remains were not present, although Morelos' were confirmed, dismissing the claim that they had been lost in Paris.
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That investigation confirmed the idenity of the remains belonging to Miguel Hidalgo, Ignacio Allende, JUan Aldama, Mariano Jimenez, Francisco Xavier Mina, Vicente Guerrero, Leona Vicario, Andres Quintana Roo, Nicolas Bravo and Guadalupe Victoria. -
The report of more than 200 pages regarding the study, which was cited Monday by the MExican paper La Jornada, clarifies that in Matamoros' grave there are actually remains belonging to a woman between 40 and 45, meanwhile they found over 200 bones belonging to various individuals.
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In the coffins belonging to Miguel Hildalgo, Morelos, Allende, Aldama and Jimenez there were also found 250 bones belonging to adults, children and even deer.
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In the coffin allegedly belonging to Guadalupe Victoria were the remains of a man between 19 and 21, as well as five lumbar vertebraes belonging to a female, deer bone. In the urn belonging to Leona Vicario were the daughter's reimains Genoveva. -
"This new information will generate new doubts for future investigations," said the anthropologist.
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A few years ago, Mexicans lived an important act as the remains of the most prominent figures of the Mexican revolution were paraded through the streets. Heroes like Miguel Hidalgo, Juan Aldama, Vicente Guerrero, among others, traveled through the streets of the capital. Regardless, a new investigation has uncovered a detail that will generate great doubt and questions.
