Discovering a thousand-year-old mummy, archaeologists were stunned with a strange posture, the more they looked, the more scared they became

According to CNN, recently, researchers from the National University of San Marcos (Peru) found a well-preserved mummy underground in the middle of the town square at the archaeological site of Cajamarquilla, far from the city Lima is about 25km.

Normally, most mummies are found lying upright, but what stunned archaeologists was that this mummy was tied with ropes and her hands were covered with her face.

According to the researchers' initial conjecture, this may be the funeral custom of the ancient Southern Peruvians. The mummy is estimated to be at least 800 years old and this age means it dates back to pre-Hispanic times, and even predates the Inca civilization, who founded the most famous ancient citadel of Machu Picchu Peru in the 15th century.

The archaeological team found the mummy inside an underground structure on the outskirts of the city of Lima. Inside the mausoleum there are also offerings, including ceramics, plant traces, and stone tools.

The mummy is most likely a young man between 25 and 30 years old.

Pieter Van Dalen Luna, one of the archaeologists involved in the excavation, said: 'The discovery of this strange mummy sheds new light on human relationships and interactions during the period. Spanish currency".

Pieter told CNN that the mummy is most likely a young man between the ages of 25 and 30 who moved from the mountains to Cajamarquilla, a former commercial hub in pre-Colombian times. "The radiocarbon treatment will help date the mummy more accurately," he said.

Excavation work began in mid-October with the help of a team of 40 people led by Van Dalen Luna and archaeologist Yomira Huamán Santillán, and the discovery came as a surprise because they were not originally meant to be. looking for mummies.

The ancient citadel of Machu Picchu in Peru.

"The whole team is really happy because we didn't think this was going to happen," Huamán told CNN. "We never thought we'd make such an important discovery."

Another surprise is that archaeologists also found the carcasses of some marine mollusks outside the mummy's tomb. According to Mr. Van Dalen Luna, this is extremely unusual because Cajamarquilla is 25km from the coast. Sea mollusks can't crawl that far.

Van Dalen Luna said: 'After the mummy was placed in the mausoleum, there were events and activities that kept happening. That is to say, their descendants keep coming back for years, placing food and offerings there, including mollusks."

The bones of llamas were also found outside the mausoleum, and Van Dalen Luna said this was a common dish eaten by people at that time and so pieces of camel meat would be offered to the deceased.

The characteristics of the place where the mummy was discovered led researchers to conclude that this was not an ordinary citizen, but could have been an important person in contemporary society.

'Finding a mummy with these features in the middle of the square clearly shows that this was a person of high status,' Mr Van Dalen Luna said, adding that it could have been a wealthy merchant.

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The team will now perform more specialized analyzes including carbon dating that will allow them to narrow down the time period in which this person lived and know more details about the identity.