Mysterious mummy dating back up to 1,200 years is discovered in an underground tomb in Peru with its whole body tied up by ROPES and its hands covering its face
The individual’s remains were found at the Cajamarquilla archaeological site
This is located some 16 miles inland from the country’s coastal capital, Lima
The mummy — whose sex is unknown — belonged to a pre-Inca civilisation
Rope binding, experts said, would have been part of the local funeral pattern
Excavations in the tomb also revealed ceramic artefacts and various stone tools
Archaeologists excavating an underground tomb in Peru have uncovered a strange mummy preserved fully bound up in ropes, with its hands covering its face.
The remains of the individual, whose sex has not been identified, was found at the Cajamarquilla archaeological site, some 16 miles from the capital city of Lima.
According to the team, the mummy dates back 1,200-800 years and belonged to the pre-Inca civilisation that developed between the Peruvian coast and mountains.
The excavation at Cajamarquilla is being led by archaeologist Pieter Van Dalen Luna of the California State University San Marcos.
‘The main characteristic of the mummy is that the whole body was tied up by ropes and with the hands covering the face,’ Professor Van Dalen Luna said.
This elaborate binding, he explained, ‘would be part of the local funeral pattern.’
The mummified individual, Professor Van Dalen Luna explained, would have lived in the high Andean region of what is today Peru — some 600–200 years before the rise of the Inca people.
‘Radiocarbon dating will give a more precise chronology,’ he added.
The underground tomb in which the mummy was found also harboured other funerary offerings.
Among these discoveries were stone tools and ceramic pots within which were traces of vegetable matter, the archaeologists said.
The team added that the nature of the burial indicated that the region would have been multi-ethnic in the late pre-Hispanic period.
Source: Daily mail
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Mysterious mummy dating back up to 1,200 years is discovered in an underground tomb in Peru with its whole body tied up by ROPES and its hands covering its face