A mummy that Peruvian archaeologists believe to be around 3,000 years old has been discovered during a dig at the location of a trash dump in the country’s capital, Lima.
The mummy’s hair and skull were first discovered by San Marcos University dig assistance students.
Eight tonnes of trash were hauled away from the site, according to archaeologist Miguel Aguilar, before they started their meticulous hunt for ancient artifacts.
The Manchay civilisation is supposed to have existed during the time the mummy was found.
Between around 1500 BC and 1000 BC, the Manchay inhabited the region near present-day Lima.
They are renowned for constructing temples with u-shaped roofs that face the rising sun.
The mummy, according to Mr. Aguilar, was positioned in a tomb in the middle of a U-shaped temple. He claimed that the remains had been disposed of flat, in keeping with the “formative era” of the Manchay civilisation, which was roughly 3,000 years ago.
Cotton and vegetable fiber material was used to wrap the body.
The individual “had been left or offered [as a sacrifice] during the last phase of this temple’s construction,” the archaeologist claimed.
Before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors, those who traveled to the Americas as part of the Spanish conquest, a number of tribes in what is now Peru practiced mummification.
While some mummies were brought out and paraded at significant festivals, others were buried, frequently in the foetal position.
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