Pre-Incan tomb with 1,000-year-old remains unearthed in Peru

Public service workers search the trenches to enlarge an underground gas network in the capital of Peru has uncovered two pre-incanted graves on Thursday which are more than 1,000 years old.

One of the tombs was empty while the other held the 1000 years left of an individual alongside four clay ships and three pumpkin shell artifacts.

According to the archaeologist José Aliaga, the iconography of the vessels and their colors black, white and red “allow us to establish a connection with the culture of pre-inner”, which is around 1,000 to 1,470 years. “Aliaga told the Associated Press that the individual had been found wrapped in a torn package, in a sitting position with his legs against his chest, and his team will continue to clean the remains.

“Lima is unique among the Latin American capitals,” said Aliaga, “in that various archaeological discoveries are determined for almost all civil projects.”

The Peruvian capital of Lima, a city of more than 10 million people, has more than 400 archaeological sites from the Inca era, from the 15th century or earlier from the pre-Inca period, according to the Ministry of Culture.

Surprisingly, the discovery of Thursday was not the first time that Cálidda, the company which distributes natural gas in Lima, found archaeological remains. During more than two decades of excavations to extend the underground network, the company said it had made more than 2,200 discoveries.

Last month, Public services workers have found an old mummy of a child aged 10 to 15 when installing pipes. The archaeologist Jesus Bahamonde told journalists at the time that the workers had found the trunk of a Huarango tree, “which served as a marker of the tomb in the past”.

In April, archaeologists from Peru announced that they had found the Remains of 5,000 years of a noble In the sacred city of caral, in an area which for decades was used as a discharge.

A few days before that, the researchers carrying out excavation work in southern Peru found an old tomb filled with the remains of two dozen people Considered victims of combat.

“It is very common to find archaeological remains on the Peruvian coast, including Lima, mainly funeral elements: tombs, burials and, among these, mummified individuals,” said Pieter Van Dalen, dean of the college of archaeologists in Peru. Van Dalen was not involved in the discovery of Thursday.

Thursday, passers -by stopped in their footsteps to observe the burial place, even withdrawing their mobile phones to take a photo.

“I have always thought they were paths where no one had lived,” said Flor Prieto, who was walking with his 7 -year -old daughter. “But now I know that people older than the Incas have lived there … It’s so exciting.”