Lima, Peru (AP)-Utilities workers who dig trenches have discovered to expand the natural gas pipeline network in the capital of Peru, pre-border mummy about 1000 years, barely half a meter (20 inches) of the surface.
The mummy had not been noticed by anyone despite the urban development in the Lima region, where the previous agricultural fields were converted into neighborhoods of the working class in recent decades. Jose Aliaga, an archaeologist with the benefit of Cáldda, said on Wednesday that the discovered mummy, which was found in a sitting and covered with a package, is still with dark brown hair.
“We have found residue and evidence that there could be a pre -Spanish burial,” said Aliaja. He said that the workers had discovered last week.
Lima, which is located in Wadi, is narrated by three rivers fueled by the Andes Mountains, includes human civilizations thousands of years before the Spaniards arrived in 1535. Now a home to 10 million people, the city includes more than 400 archaeological sites, most of which are intertwined with the current urban fabric.
“It is very common to find archaeological remains on the Peruvian coast, including Lima, and the funerary elements mainly: graves, burial, and among these mummified individuals,” said Peter van Dalin, Dean of Peru Antiquities College.
Van Dalin, who does not participate in this discovery, said that mummies are usually found on the Peruvian coast naturally, in general in desert areas, while drying the skin with the heat of summer. He explained that other residue was found discovered to undergo embalming procedures for cultural reasons, and they are usually discovered in a sitting position and their hands cover their faces.
Jesus Pahammund, director of the archaeological monitoring plan in Lima Metropolitan in Kalida, said the mummy that was found last week would have belonging to a society of fishermen in the Chesai culture, which flourished between 1000 and 1470 AD.
