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Peru: Three Pre-Inca mummies found in Lima examined by X-rays

The three 1,300-year-old mummies recently found in Huaca Pucllana ruins (Lima) were examined by X-rays yesterday to take a look inside these funeral bundles before opening and studying them.

Head archaeologist Isabel Flores said X-rays would help determine the position of the human remains without cutting the mummies open.

"The interesting thing about these mummies is that they are the first to be found intact in this archaeological site. The study of these mummies will help us learn more about the burial techniques of the Wari culture," Flores added.

She mentioned that in the same place where these three mummies were unearthed, archaeologists noticed the presence of four more.

It was reported that in the coming months more information would be provided about them.

In addition, Peruvian archaeologist Isabel Flores noted that one of the primary goals was to have an on-site museum where these mummies and artifacts could be displayed.

In that regard, the mayor of Miraflores, Manuel Masias, has pledged to do build one in the medium term.

On Tuesday, August 26, a team of Peruvian archaeologists excavating a pyramid at the Huaca Pucllana site found three 1,300-year old mummies from the Wari culture, including a woman with a mask with striking blue eyes.

Huaca Pucllana is a Pre-Incan temple complex which was used by both the Wari and Lima cultures. It is situated in the midst of the modern Limean district of Miraflores, with an area of five hectares.

The Wari culture flourished in Peru's southern highlands from about 500 to 1000, with the empire stretching from Moquegua in the south to Trujillo in the north.

News source: ANDINA

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# Juan Vischongo says :
4 September, 2008 [ 22:00 ]

Huari Totally Rules Dude !

# edson eae says :
5 September, 2008 [ 09:30 ]

The Mummy 4 in Peru!!!!!!!!!!! coming soon

# Roger Garcia-Marenco says :
5 September, 2008 [ 13:54 ]

I read Archeological News every single day - Thanks Mr Blomberg - and regarding America's Archeology the letany is: "They were cannibals and practiced human sacrificies." Some political-economic agenda is going on supported for those who finance those works.  

So I advice you Peruvians not let them take samples of their stomachs because they will say later that were sent to an ultra modern Lab were the remains were tested and human proteins were found in the stomachs of those mummies confirming what the letany says.

The "Christian-Heirs of the Colony Oligarchy complex" has been trashing American Native ancient cultures to make today's people hate them to hide the fact that the most terrible organization in the human history has been the RCC (Roman Catholic Church) that promoted and allowed the massacre of one hundred millions American Natives in the XVI Century. Be aware, The Inquisition is still alive and killing.

# Rodrigo Aspiazu says :
6 September, 2008 [ 17:39 ]

That's totally true and i agree with you mister garcia, everything about the Church of Inquisition times was a total mess and a complot against the order and policy of the incas and the ones who preceded them ...
I can share the information that the domenicans were those who know from the beginning of the XVI Century where thus Machu Picchu stand!
They were stealing and robbing since ages along with future grave robbers from the end of the XIX Century.

# Chaufa says :
6 September, 2008 [ 18:04 ]

As a good honest catholic, I take offense to the above. Catholicism has its critics, but in all it has done nothing but good in the world. The cholo indios were crying out for Christ, whether they knew it or not. Their barbarous societies were ended and a new prosperity, one with Christ, began.

# Roger Garcia-Marenco says :
6 September, 2008 [ 20:11 ]

Sorry Chaufa, the truth has to be known, Christianism has been the deepest, cruellest, and largest atrocity ever happened in human history, in the XVI Century hundred millions American Natives (Indians) were sacrificed in the name of Jesus a Jewish God that become great as European God but by no means is an Inca, Maya, Aztec, North American or American Native God for that matters; unfortunately the holocaust didn't end in 1.600 the colony system keep killing for the next two centuries(XVII and XVIII) and even after the so called independence the heirs of the colony power retained the power and the holocaust has still killing and making their lives miserably and worse without hope for a better and just distribution of the exploitation of the natural and human resources of this continent that was robbed in 1.498 when Rodrigo Borgia or Pope Alexander VI gave it to Spain's and Portugal's crowns by emitting the Bull regarding that gift based in a document where theCaesar, Constantine, gave the lands west of Rome to the Roman Catholic Church. Evidently America could have never legally been included in such a document and in any other because wasn’t property of any one but those who inhabited it or theDescendants of those that came here 20.000 or 40.000 years back.  There is no doubt that the RCC is totally and absolutely responsible of such a horrendous atrocity, a holocaust that so far is lasting 516 years. I understand you and I’m really sorry that the lot of good that the RCC has done is not enough to match such a monstrosity. Don’t tell that Jesus said forgive and forget the suffering has been too much as to be simply ignored and less if there isn’t the slightest sign of address it and change policies in order to deserve such a pardon and instead the RCC and the Latin America oligarchy heirs of the Colony want to keep their power untouched and untouchable to remain raping their long lasting undeserved privileges. The worse policy is that one that is focused in deprive and deny American Natives the opportunities to exercise their rights to share the richness of their continent and instead are being exploited, slaved and killed as have been for half a millennia. Latin America people are hostages of USA’s agenda that isn’t of USA’s people but of the cronies of the president. 

I tell you why is so; In early fifties Jacobo Arbenz the President of Guatemala expropriated the unused land of the United Fruit Co. and distributed it among Natives; that land had been acquired at ridiculous prices years back and hold for the specific purpose of reduce the resources of the indigenous population so they were in misery and forced to work for the bananera for pennies. By then the brothers Foster Dulles, John and Edgar I guess, held a very large lot of shares of the Bananera and also John was secretary of state and Edgar CIA’s director respectively, two very powerful cronies of the Ike Eisenhower, the President of USA. A few years later the CIA organized an operative to overthrow Arbenz who went to exile, the General Castillo Armas got the presidency and the Bananera got the land back. The Coca leafs has been used for Andean people for tens of thousand years but today USA press Bolivia Gov’t to forbid the use of Coca, what problem could USA have with Bolivian Coca production that mostly is consumed wisely by the peasants if Colombian production of Cocaine is millions times larger; USA spend 35 millions dollar keeping a small army fighting the local Coca growers but the real purpose is to have in Bolivian territory a military force to support local enemies of Evo Morales specially Santa Cruz’s ultra right politicians. The examples are hundreds if no thousands.  

  

# L. Michaelson says :
8 September, 2008 [ 17:12 ]

The Catholics slaughtered thousands of Indigionous peoples in an attempt to convert them. And more often than not they were enslaved after a forced conversion. They were nothing nice and anyone who glorifies them needs to be "Converted and "PUT TO WORK" for god. What a joke.

# Stuart says :
8 September, 2008 [ 17:39 ]

Tens of millions if you include deseases as well as slaughter. Also, when the Spanish arrived in the Americas, the indigenous were used... and this is established fact... as dog food. Countless innocents were butchered and fed to dogs.

# Roger Garcia-Marenco says :
8 September, 2008 [ 18:52 ]

Catholics deny and refuse to accept responsibility for the Holocaust of Native America and just repeat endlessly the crap that they brougth Christ, "The "Bloody Poster Boy" of Christianity, as if that event has meant something remarkable for Native Americans when in reality it is the main cause of all the misery that we have suffered along 516 years so far.

What I realize is that it has the two faces, one is like the Corcovado(Brazil) image of Jesus representing a nice, wealthy, lovely guy, that is the God Europeans love and worship, wherever they are, while the other is Christ, the bloody, loser, crucifixed guy, that is the God they have given to us because they don't want it. So they are wealthy, rich, happy, powerful like their God while we are bleeding, suffering, in misery. and with no future like the crappy God we worship. We MUST change God and get one that is nice, lovely, wealthy, healthy to change our destiny. We MUST repudiaty Christ and stop celebrating the passion, it is too atrocious, massacrous, disgusting, absurd, misleading, it has trashed us for five centuries. Enough is enough my friends.

They will laugh and say that that is wrong but then ask them why they become so rich when robbed our richness in the name of Jesus and remain so while we got into misery and remain so since worship Christ. 

Christ is the problem for us my friends not the solution as they say.

# Roger Garcia-Marenco says :
9 September, 2008 [ 14:53 ]

I have pondered why Africa that has been across the pond so to speak from Europe didn't suffer the holocaust we Native Americans has been suffering since 1492; certainly they were slavered here in America but back home things kept going as usual, their races, cultures, religions and else didn't changed untill much later when Europeans lost control over their heirs here in America and had no choice to practice the usual Christian atrocities they love so much.
 
When European Americans or Creole managed to cut the umbilical rope  around the 1800 it didn't mean hope for Native Americans, instead, a far worse system took control of the continent, the greedy  Christians Creole heirs of the colony power to whom the Crowns (Spain, Portugal and England) had kept at bay for political-economical reasons felt free to embark in a renewed bloddy revenge against American Natives showing so how much they hated them and still do.

So the answer to my quest is: the culprit are the Christian belief in two things: first and the most compelling is the 1.498 Bull of Rodrigo Borgia giving our continent to Spain's and Portugal's Crowns in the name of thir God wich meant for the greedy Christians that Jesus had given them the entire continent with everything and humans on it and second, as a dogma reinforcing the first for those nutty believers, the myth of the only three waise men, a White, a Yellow and a Black but not a Red, an American Native, had visited the new born Jesus and so that land was stated in this way to belong to Whites. It seems childish but isn't Christianism childish?

Finally I tell you, a North American Chief asked an English man why they were taking their land and the English man answered that the Pope had given it to them in the name of their God Jesuschrist, the Chief asked back to him: "Who is that mister to give what don't belong to him?"