Peru gas workers find thousand-year-old mummy

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  • Peru gas workers find thousand-year-old mummy

Peruvian gas workers found a thousand-year-old mummy while installing pipes in Lima, earlier this week. Their company confirming the latest discovery of a pre-Hispanic tomb in the capital. Ceramic objects, including plates, bottles and jugs decorated with geometric figures and figures of fishermen, were also found next to the mummy.

The tomb and artifacts belong to the pre-Inca Chancay culture, which lived in the Lima area between the 11th and 15th centuries. Lima is home to over 500 archaeological sites, including dozens of "huacas" as ancient cemeteries are known in the Indigenous Quechua language.

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