Mon 29 November 2021:
One of the archaeologists who participated in the excavation stated on Friday that a team of experts discovered a mummy estimated to be at least 800 years old on Peru’s central coast.
The mummified remains belonged to a person from the South American country’s civilisation that flourished between the shore and the highlands. According to archaeologist Pieter Van Dalen Luna, the mummy, whose gender has not been determined, was discovered in the Lima region.
Archaeologist Pieter Van Dalen Luna, from the State University of San Marcos, Peru, on the right, with the rope-bound mummy just behind him. ( UNMSM)
Archaeologists have found an 800-year-old mummy in Peru. The remains were of a person from the culture that developed between the coast and mountains of the South American country https://t.co/hLf32JsHnQ pic.twitter.com/hSi0CCA55D
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“The main characteristic of the mummy is that the whole body was tied up by ropes and with the hands covering the face, which would be part of the local funeral pattern,” said Van Dalen Luna, from the State University of San Marcos.
The remains are of a person who lived in the high Andean region of the country, he said. “Radiocarbon dating will give a more precise chronology.”
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The mummy was discovered inside an underground bunker on the outskirts of Lima. Ceramics, vegetable fragments, and stone tools were among the items found in the tomb, he said.
According to Reuters, Peru, which is home to tourist hotspot Machu Picchu, has hundreds of archaeological sites dating from before and after the Inca Empire, which ruled the southern half of South America 500 years ago, from southern Ecuador and Colombia to central Chile.
The tomb where the mummy was discovered is part of the larger archaeological site of Cajamarquilla.
The Huari culture, which flourished along Peru’s coast from 400 to 600 AD, was the first to colonize the area.
What was once one of the country’s major cities is now just a collection of mud-brick dwellings and pyramids.
The Inca, who ruled most of the Andean region by the time of the Spanish conquest in 1532, are assumed to have taken over the old site.
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