Sweden returned the pre-Inca shroud to Peru

On June 16, Sweden handed Peru a precious pre-Inca shroud in the first batch of smuggled foreign diplomats in the western South American country 80 years ago.

Earlier, a Paracas colorful shroud with 88 woven lines measuring 104cm x 53cm was given to a museum in Gothenburg, Västra Götaland county - west of the Northern European kingdom. Sven smuggled the Paracas shroud after a batch of many other fabrics were discovered on the Paracas peninsula, desert in southern Lima - a dry climate that protected alpaca fibers.

Scientists are examining the pre-Inca Paracas shroud.

Although dating back 2,000 years, this antiquity is "perfectly preserved ", Krzysztof Makowski, archaeologist of Warsaw University (Poland) - who studied linen at Catholic University. Peru said.

"Worldwide, the findings of textile items are much rarer than precious metals dating back to this time," the US Associated Press reported.

Multi-colored shroud with 88 weaving lines is 104cm x 53cm in size.

"If you want to find textiles in Roman times, you will not find any items because they are not preserved. The fabrics are very thin. There are very few countries in the world that preserve these fabrics. including Peru, ' Krzysztof said.

AP revealed, another shroud called Gothenburg in the shipment is much more complicated. It consists of 80 different colors including the main tones of blue, green, yellow, red and orange; It is divided into 32 decorative boxes with vignettes such as vultures, frogs, cats, corn, cassava and human-like characters. Some scientists believe that the shroud may be a type of calendar related to the tracking of crops and cultivation, Jahl Dulanto - archaeologist of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne, the head of research rescuing Paracas in Peru's Catholic University said.

A close-up of the texture of a precious shroud dates back to 2000 years old.

Dulanto said that experts still do not fully understand the knowledge of the Inca money creation through weaving techniques and the combination of pigments shown on the shroud.