Chile seeks support to preserve the oldest mummies in the world

Chilean researchers are seeking international help to protect nearly 300 Chinchorro mummies found in the north of the country, considered the oldest mummies in the world to date.

According to scientific evidence, Chinchorro mummies , restored in recent years from the arid coastal areas near the border between Chile and Peru, date from between 5,000 BC and 1,500 years later. AD, is considered to be older than mummies in Egypt.

Chinchorro mummy.(Source: ancient-origins.net).

Sergio Medina, an anthropologist at Tarapaca University in Arica City in northern Chile, said the government was trying to get Chinchorro mummies to be fed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. National (UNESCO) recognized as a world heritage.

However, he insists this is not the main goal but the beginning of a process of seeking support and the best tools to preserve the mummies.

According to Chilean experts, Chinchorro is the name of the first group of fishermen living in the coastal region of the Atacama desert.

With simple techniques and extensive anatomy, they have successfully developed the world's oldest artificial mummification method.

Along with the aforementioned complex mummies, Chinchorro culture is considered a unique type of culture in the Americas and is an art product of the first inhabitants of this northern Chile coastal region.