A thousandyearold mummy with long hair was found at an archaeological site in a residential neighborhood in Lima, Peru.
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The Huaca Pucllana Site Museum announced the discovery on Facebook. “As part of the 2023 research project, a grave context from the Ychsma period was found at the top of the Pucllana pyramid,” says the text of the article.
According to Mirella Ganoza, head of the archaeological team, the remains were identified as those of an adult person, but with no gender specified, she told Portal.
The mummy was found with bent legs and long hair and an almost intact jaw. In his left hand he held a kind of bag made of pieces of green metal.
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Archaeologist Frank Baquerizo emphasizes that pieces of ceramic were found in the mummy’s tomb. One of them is an ordinary pot and the other is an empty container with typical decoration of the Chancay culture.
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According to the museum, the mummified individual dates back to the beginnings of the Ychsma culture, which developed on the central coast of Peru during a period of social restructuring before the arrival of the Incas in the region.
“Until 2015, the presence of the Ychsma culture was known from offerings of human hair in mats or wrapped in achira leaves, which were found in various areas of this promenade, even in crevices,” said the head of the archaeological team.