According to their employer, Peruvian gas workers discovered a thousand-year-old mummy this week while laying pipes in Lima, confirming the most recent finding of a pre-Hispanic tomb in the capital.
According to archaeologist Jesus Bahamonde, scientific coordinator of Calidda gas firm, the workers discovered the trunk of a huarango tree, a species indigenous to coastal Peru, “which served as a tomb marker in the past,” at a depth of 50 centimeters (20 inches).
He stated that the mummy of a youngster who was between the ages of 10 and 15 had been discovered at a depth of 1.2 meters.
“The items and the burial fit a style that evolved between 1000 and 1200,” he stated.
