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 years and belonged to the pre-Inca civilisation that developed between the Peruvian coast and mountains.



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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 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.

Peru is home to hundreds of archaeological sites derived from cultures that developed both before and after the Inca Empire.

Child sacrifice seems to have been a relatively common occurrence in the cultures of ancient Peru. Among the finds revealing this ritual behaviour were the mummified remains of a child's body (pictured), discovered in 1985 by a group of mountaineers

The boy is thought to have been a victim of an Inca ritual called capacocha, where children of great beauty and health were sacrificed by drugging them and taking them into the mountains to freeze to death.

Here we go
Them go soon find wetin them Dey look for
But come to think of it
I wonder what’s its like back Then

Where is the photo?

I cum on time today thank God.

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These oyibo people should take it easy unearthing all these things make them no come unearth the ones we go put so many inside mother-earth belle.

They keep digging till they dig out a real undead mummy.

Dem tie am down, make hunger kill am.

Pamelayoung:
Where is the photo?

E be like sey cow died inside your eyes ni?

Explore i salute you here

This one must have been a slave punished or used for sacrifice.

Hmmm.
Wonder what the person did to deserve to be tied like that...
These archeologists have got to be careful.. I do not wanna read about how a mummy turned someone into a Zombie..

I would like them to also dig up the story surrounding his/her death

Hmmm!

Hanks0000:
Hmmm.
Wonder what the person did to deserve to be tied like that...
These archeologists have got to be careful.. I do not wanna read about how a mummy turned someone into a Zombie..

They may even dig up a buried demon,, or an undead zombie who never died but was buried alive with hands and legs tied underground.

BluntCrazeMan:
I would like them to also dig up the story surrounding his/her death

Oga digging lover, go and get axe, digger etc and start the digging nah

Let people Rest In Peace na. Humans have come a long way. These native Americans too like human sacrifice self

Do we offer archaeology as a course in Nigeria? If yes, do we have practicing archaeologist who go on digs and archaeological expeditions?

Romanoff:
Do we offer archaeology as a course in Nigeria? If yes, do we have practicing archaeologist who go on digs and archaeological expeditions?

University of Ibadan

wtf man
Make dem hold am well or ah feel show wit my 3 KALA

Wtf?
Ancient people are ruthless

Romanoff:
Do we offer archaeology as a course in Nigeria? If yes, do we have practicing archaeologist who go on digs and archaeological expeditions?

some work of art have been found by chance, our terrain does not make it easy to find things. The house were built with mud and palmtree easy to be consumed by nature and thick forests . See nok art history

I hope say that rope wey I see there na the archaeologist people get am else which factory produce such fine rope over 1200yrs ago

Strange, things don happen, things dey happen and things go still happen.

slowice:
I hope say that rope wey I see there na the archaeologist people get am else which factory produce such fine rope over 1200yrs ago

Just because of rope abi? Small civilization and engineering feat don tey small o.

Will create thread because of your question and mention you.

Subhanallah 1,200 years

¤mr kb please my chair.. Thank you¤

God help us

The mummy returns

Reason why I love Explorers threads is because you try as much as you can not to back date the ancient world to million years ago like the other moniker


Keep it up dear

BluntCrazeMan:
They may even dig up a buried demon,, or an undead zombie who never died but was buried alive with hands and legs tied underground.

Exactly...