Test of 1,000-year-old dog mummy DNA

On November 15, Mexican archaeologists said they were preparing to analyze radioactive carbon isotopes (C14), X-rays and DNA testing of a 1,000-year-old dog mummy to determine the exact age. Great, cause of death and this kind of animal .

Whole dog mummy over 1,000 years old in Peru.

According to a reporter in Mexico, dog mummies, about 42cm long and 22cm high, were found in 1953 at Candelaria Cave in the state of Coahuila in northern Mexico, along with 2,500 artifacts including jewelry and other burial items.

Archaeologists believe that dog fossil bones are rarely found in the northern tombs and this is the only dog ​​mummy discovered in Mexico. Previously only known mummies of dogs in Egypt and Peru.

The discovery of the mummy dog ​​hypothesizes about the practice of burying dogs along with the dead of nomadic people in northern Mexico.

According to archaeologist Yuri Leopoldo, the Candelaria cave is used by ancient hunting groups as a place to bury the dead. Earlier, 4,000 burial items were found and about 200 human bones inside the cave.