The mummy of a woman at about a thousand years was found during the installation of pipelines in Puente Piedra, Lima, according to a statement released on Tuesday (17) by the Peruvian gas company Calidda.
The pipeline installation works were interrupted after the discovery, allowing experts to expand the excavation area and recover artifacts, the company said.
“She was approximately 20 to 25 years old, belonged to Chancay culture, and is estimated to be between 900 and a thousand years,” said Jesus Bahamonde, a Calidda-hired archaeologist. The burial site contained vessels and scraps of crustaceans, providing information about your diet.
The Chancay were a pre-history civilization that prospered on the central coast of, near the present city of Lima, from approximately 1000 to 1470 AD
Appearing after the fall of Wari civilization, they had a centralized political structure and dedicated themselves to extensive trade, but their culture declined in the late fifteenth century when the Inca Empire expanded to its territory.
