Seven pre-Inca tombs in Peru’s Ayacucho (southern) department have been found by local archaeologists, state agency Andina reported.
As the media indicates on its website, Ayacucho researchers from the National University of San Cristóbal de Huamanga discovered seven graves with human remains in the Pallawcha-Pampa Plain.
Pallawcha Pampa is an archaeological site in Vilcas Huamán Province, Ayacucho Department.
The head of the archaeological team, Edison Méndez, said that the remains would be 900 years old before Christ, clearly predating the Wari culture, according to Andina’s slogan.
Wari is the most important pre-Columbian culture in the Ayacucho region and predates the Inca Empire, which existed between 1438 and 1533.
According to the researchers, the graves were religious burials with remains of presumably male people.