Eight mummies & pre-Inca objects discovered in Peru's capital Lima
archaeologists describe Peru's capital as an onion with many layers of history, others consider it a box of surprises. That's what some gas line workers got when their digging uncovered eight pre-Inca funeral bales.
«We are recovering those leaves of the lost history of Lima that is just hidden under the tracks and streets,» Jesus Bahamonde, an archaeologist at Calidda, the company that distributes natural gas in the city of 10 million people, said Friday.
He said the company's excavation work to expand its system of gas lines over the last 19 years has produced more than 1,900 archaeological finds of various kinds, including mummies, pottery and textiles. Those have mostly been associated with burial sites on flat ground.
The city also has more than 400 larger archaeological sites that have turned up scattered through the urban landscape.
Known as "huacas" in the Indigenous Quechua language, those adobe constructions are on top of hills considered sacred places.
The number of relics isn't surprising.
