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Thousands of Inca Mummies Excavated in Lima

Over 2,200 mummites and 60,000 artifacts have been excavated from a dig in Lima, Peru. The mummies represent a broad cross-section of the Inca people circa AD 1500, and they're yielding a tremendous wealth of information to arcaeologists and other anthropologists.

Thanks, Steve!

Posted by Songdog on April 18, 2002 01:29 PM |

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It's appalling that most of the site is already destroyed or soon will be because of the moisture poured into the ground by the slum above it -- a particularly excruciating example of the present-vs-past conundrum that crops up more and more (as in Turkey, where ancient sites are disappearing because of raids by poor villagers for building supplies, etc.)

Posted by: steve | April 18, 2002 03:10 PM

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