The ACM Group library has acquired a reprint of the unique 1928 brochure “Mummification in the Caucasus Mountains” by Dr. Ivan Melentyevich Iosifov.
"I had long heard repeated reports of mummies in mountain burial mounds. To investigate this, I made several trips to Ingushetia to examine the burial mounds and mummies. As material for my examination, I took mummies from burial mounds that I had studied in 1926 in the auls of Fur-Touge, Muguchkalakh, Obeni, Lyazhgi, Arzi, Shaune, Salgi, Khani, Tumgi, Kazi, Otzyke, Leymi, Eikale, and Khairahe near Thaba Erda."
“I must mention the peculiarities of the burial mounds: on the Assa River, halfway between ... and ..., there is a hillock riddled with underground galleries and crypts. The entrances to them are not located in the usual place, but to the west. According to legend, 2,000 dead are buried here”...
This unique publication has been included in the Unified Electronic Database on the History of Ingushetia, created by the ACM Group in collaboration with the SAFMAR Charitable Foundation.