Fury at Mexican government after ancient mummy loses arm in renovation bungle

FILE – Mummies are displayed in the Mummy Museum in Guanajuato, Mexico (Daniel Jayo/AP)

Mexico’s lead archaeology agency has accused the Mexican city of Guanajuato of mistreating the Central American nation’s famous mummified artefacts.

The National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) said that, during recent museum renovations where the 19th-century corpses were, an arm came off of one of the bodies.