A 1,000-Year-Old Mummy Just Showed Up in Peru With a Full Head of Hair
The people of Lima, Peru keep uncovering intriguing neighbors. The latest comes from the Huaca Pucllana site amidst Lima’s well-to-do Miraflores residential district—and it’s a 1,000-year-old mummy.
The mummy—an adult found in a sitting position with bent legs—still had an intact jaw and long brown hair, according to Reuters, and was surrounded by ceramic vessels, textiles, and other objects.
The remains were found alongside ceramic vessels, textiles and other objects in the Huaca Pucllana site in the middle of Lima's affluent Miraflores district, the head of the team of archaeologists, Mirella Ganoza, told Reuters on Wednesday.
"This is an adult individual in a sitting position with bent legs," the expert said, noting that the mummy had long hair and a jaw that was nearly completely intact.
The uncovered mummy lived possibly as long as a millennium ago, at the beginning of the Ychsma culture that developed on the central coast of modern Peru during a period of social reorganization prior to the arrival of the Incas to the area, Ganoza said.
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02 October 2023
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