Archeologists discovered a 3000-year-old mummy A 3000-year-old mummy was discovered in a very unlikely place - a rubbish dump. (Photo : CRIS BOURONCLE/AFP via Getty Images)An archeological researcher looks at a mummified pre-Inca adult uncovered in a funerary bundle on March 4, 2015, at the site museum of the almost unknown Puruchuco -"Feathered Head-Piece" in Andean Quechua language-complex in Lima.