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Six mummified children thought to have been sacrificed hundreds of years ago, apparently to accompany a dead nobleman to the afterlife, have been unearthed in a tomb near Lima, archaeologists reported.

LIMA - Six mummified children thought to have been sacrificed hundreds of years ago, apparently to accompany a dead nobleman to the afterlife, have been unearthed in a tomb near Lima, archaeologists reported.

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By Fernando Gimeno Lima, Dec 10 (EFE).- Bound from head to toe by ropes and with hands covering the face, the so-called Cajamarquilla mummy had been hidden for roughly a thousand years until being recently discovered on the outskirts of Peru’s capital. Like a real-life representation of Edvard Munch’s iconic painting “The Scream,” the grim …

Archaeologists in Peru unearthed an ancient mummy that dates back between 800 and 1,200 years. What’s so unusual about this mummy is that it was bound with rope with the hands covering the face. The team was very surprised that they found a mummy during their excavations as explained by archeologist Yomira Huamán Santillán in... Read more »

A report by Benjamin Toff, Sumitra Badrinathan, Camila Mont'Alverne, Amy Ross Arguedas, Richard Fletcher and Rasmus Nielsen. 

Archeologists in Peru working on a site in the outskirts of the capital Lima have unearthed a mummy believed to be between 800 and 1,200 years old -- and, surprisingly, bound with rope.

Head of excavation project describes the discovery of the mummy, which was bound with rope, as ‘peculiar and unique’.

Archeologists in Peru working on a site in the outskirts of the capital Lima have unearthed a mummy believed to be between 800 and 1,200 years old -- and, surprisingly, bound with rope.

  LIMA, Dec 1, 2021 (BSS/AFP) - Archeologists in Peru working on a site in the outskirts of the capital Lima