Archaeologists Found 4 Nazca Mummies in the Wrong Place. It Could Turn the Story of an Ancient Empire ‘Upside Down’
Peru’s archaeological record is arguably one of the most pillaged in the world. Corina Kellner, a professor of biological anthropology at Northern Arizona University, stumbled upon just that in 2022 while excavating Huaca del Loro, a large site along the southern coast of Peru dating back to the Nasca, a civilization that occupied the region between 1 and 750 CE. Kellner and her colleagues found the mummified remains of four individuals, bound in cloth, that had somehow remained undisturbed for over 1,000 years.
- ▪Peru’s archaeological record is arguably one of the most pillaged in the world.
- ▪Corina Kellner, a professor of biological anthropology at Northern Arizona University, stumbled upon just that in 2022 while excavating Huaca del Loro, a large site along the southern coast of Peru dating back to the Nasca, a civilization t
- ▪Kellner and her colleagues found the mummified remains of four individuals, bound in cloth, that had somehow remained undisturbed for over 1,000 years.
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Peru’s archaeological record is arguably one of the most pillaged in the world. For centuries, thousands of its pre-Columbian artifacts have been looted, first by Old World conquistadors, then by black market marauders and their local accomplices, known as huaqueros, an indigenous Quechua word that now has effectively come to mean “grave robbers.” So, it’s saying something when researchers manage to uncover a sacred site that is eerily intact. Corina Kellner, a professor of biological anthropology at Northern Arizona University, stumbled upon just that in 2022 while excavating Huaca del Loro, a large site along the southern coast of Peru dating back to the Nasca, a civilization that occupied the region between 1 and 750 CE.
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