Bogota

Were extremely well preserved natural mummies discovered in Colombia made by special high altitude climatic conditions, or was it the fruit they consumed? The mausoleum of San Bernardo is located within the department of Cundinamarca, Colombia, high within the Andes and 40 miles (64.37 km) southwest of the country's capital, Bogota. Characterized by high fertility agricultural land, the region offers the grower a variety of climates and today San Bernardo's main products are blackberry and peas. A high altitude mausoleum in San Bernardo, Colombia, holds a collection of more than a dozen so-called ‘natural mummies’. While no official scientific explanation accounts for how these mummies were formed, climatologists suspect they are caused by the chemical composition of the earth around