FRANKLIN BRICEÑO | Associated Press
LIMA, Peru — Archeologists haveactually discovered a pre-Hispanic mummy surrounded by coca leaves on top of a hill in Peru’s capital next to the practice field of a expert soccer club.
A group from The Associated Press on Thursday seen the skeleton with long black hair lying face up with its lower extremities connected with a rope braided from vines of veggie origin. Stones surrounded the mummy buried one meter (three feet) down.
Miguel Aguilar, a teacher of archeology at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, stated the mummy was buried in a routine that consistedof coca leaves and seashells.
The burial was on top of a ruined U-shaped clay temple, a particular of some pre-Hispanic structures. The mummy has not yet been subjected to radiocarbon dating to figureout its age, Aguilar stated.
He stated old fly eggs were discovered next to the male skeleton, leading them to think the body was exposed for at least numerous days priorto being covered with dirt.
It was discovered in Rímac, a district apart by a river of the exactsame name from the earliest part of Lima. Aguilar likewise heads the Historical and Cultural Center of the Municipality of Rímac.
Pieter Van Dalen, a teacher at Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos who is an specialist on archeology of the Peruvian coast however was not included in the job, stated the rope binding the lower extremities of the mummy is an example of the pattern seen in events. He pointedout another mummy discovered in a various location of Lima whose body was likewise connected with veggie ropes.
The group of excavators worked the veryfirst months of this year gathering up to 8 loads of trash that covered the leading of the hill, which is next to the training field and headoffice for the Sporting Cristal soccer club. Police likewise gottenridof homeless individuals and drug addicts who camp out around the hill.
The hill, which has stays of ancient mud walls, was a “huaca,” a Quechua word significance oracle or spiritual location. There are more than 400 huacas in Lima, according to the Ministry of Culture.
Mummies and other pre-Hispanic stays haveactually been discovered in uncommon locations in the city