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While installing new gas melodic line just beneath the busy street of Lima , Peru , public-service corporation prole unearth an unexpected archaeological bounty : eight pre - Inca mummy and a wealth of artifacts .
Themummies , which were bury in a seat position , were wrapped in funeral Basle made of cotton textile and tied with rope braided from liana , a woody vine that grows in rainforests . Archaeologists conceive the mummies were part of a pre - Inca culture known as the Ichma ( also spelled Ychma ) that incorporated into theInca Empirein the 15th C , consort to theAssociated Press .
Utility workers in Peru discovered a burial chamber containing mummies buried in the seated position alongside artifacts.
" We are recovering those [ remains ] of the lose history of Lima hide under the track and streets , " Jesus Bahamonde , an archaeologist at Cálidda , a local natural gasolene ship’s company that was leading the public-service corporation task , told the Associated Press .
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In gain to the funeral bales , which archaeologists think contain two adults and six children , workers discovered more recent artifacts , such as opium pipes , hand - rolled cigarettes , shoes , Chinese playing card , a Peruvian silver coin minted in 1898 and a contract written in Spanish in 1875 .
" When the Spaniards arrived in the 16th century , they find an entire universe living in the three valleys that today occupy Lima , " Bahamonde told the Associated Press . " What we have is a kind of diachronic continuation . "
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This is n’t the first time that a construction projection has uncover component part of Lima ’s past . In his time at Cálidda , Bahamonde say , more than 1,900 archaeological finds have been unearth in the urban region , including mummies , pottery and textiles .
Lima is bang for its abundance of archaeological sites , including 400 " huacas , " or burial knoll , scattered throughout the urban center , according toThe Washington Post .
