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Chauchilla Cemetery by fesign
For many years Chauchilla cemetery was looted by treasure hunters, who destroyed the place completely, taking away all the treasures the mummies kept in their tombs for centuries. Grave robbers just left behind the corpses, which can be seen today all over the ground. In addition to skulls and bones, visitors also can see several tombs centuries’ old, as well as long human hairs, ceramic fragments and others remains scattered on the dessert surface. It is the only archaeological site in Peru, in which ancient mummies are seen in their original graves, along with ancient artifacts, dating back to 1000 AD. Our excursion also includes the visits to the Nazca ceramic workshop and the gold extraction process center.
- 5 January 2012 - Tingüe, Peru
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Chauchilla Family Tomb by fesign
Chauchilla Cemetery is a necropolis that contains prehispanic mummified human remains and archeological artifacts, located thirty kilometers south of the city of Nazca in Peru. The bodies are so remarkably preserved due mainly to the dry climate in the Peruvian Desert but the funeral rites were also a contributing factor. The bodies were clothed in embroidered cotton and then painted with a resin and kept in purposely built tombs made from mud bricks. The resin is thought to have kept out insects and slowed bacteria trying to feed on the bodies.
- 5 January 2012 - Tingüe, Peru
- Tags: peru cemetery south necropolis america dead burial archaeology nazca bones pottery ad chauchilla remains mummy sc.200 mummified
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British Museum Pic 3 by KayleighTwyman
Skeleton of a human at the British Museum, London 2012.
British Museum Pic 1 by KayleighTwyman
Human Remains
- 2012
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