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Gas Workers Digging Beneath the Streets of Lima Stumble Upon 1,000-Year-Old Mummy With Dark Brown Hair
The burial belonged to a child who may have lived among fishermen from the Chancay culture, which thrived in Peru before the ...
Utility workers digging trenches stumble upon 1,000-year-old mummy with intact hair
A pre-Hispanic mummy dating back 1,000 years was recently found by utility workers in Lima, Peru, with archaeologists linking ...
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New Study Provides Details About The Oldest Mummy Ever Found And It Was Located In Nevada
There is still a long way to go, but the oldest mummy ever discovered is helping to shed some light, and even settle a legal ...
Utility workers discover 1,000-year-old mummy of a child while installing pipes in Peru
The mummy had gone unnoticed despite urban development in a district where agricultural fields have been converted into ...
Workers Were Laying a Gas Pipeline—and Uncovered a 1,000-Year-Old Child Mummy
The environment along Peru’s coastline often naturally mummifies remains. Workers laying new natural gas pipeline in Lima, ...
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Gas workers unearth 1,000-year-old mummy of boy sitting in unique pose in Peru
The find was made by workers from gas company Calidda in the Puente Piedra district of northern Lima. The workers first found ...
1,000-year-old pre-Incan mummy discovered by utility workers in Peru
Utility workers in Lima, Peru, recently uncovered a 1,000-year-old mummy predating the Inca Empire. The mummy likely belongs to the Chancay culture that existed from 1000 to 1470 A.D. (Source: The Ass ...
Haunting 1,000-year-old mummy found ‘seated with bent arms’ and brown hair still visible just INCHES below ground
GAS workers have discovered a 1,000-year-old mummy just a metre below the surface of the Earth during a routine pipe ...
1,000-Year-Old Mummy Found by Gas Workers in Peru Linked to Chancay Culture
The gas workers in Peru discovered a mummy dated to a thousand years old during the time of pipe installation in Lima. The ...
Utility workers uncover 1,000-year-old pre-Inca mummy in Peru's capital
Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a ...
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Researchers Have Cracked the 4,500-Year-Old Genome of a Mummy From Egypt’s First Pyramid Age
An Egyptian genome has finally been unraveled, thanks to a sample from an at least 4,500 year-old mummy dating back to the ...
Peru gas workers find thousand-year-old mummy
Peruvian gas workers this week found a thousand-year-old mummy while installing pipes in Lima, their company said, confirming ...