Mummies Special

January 24th, 2007

El Comercio, Peru’s leading newspaper, has just published an interesting special on the Leymebamba mummies. As we noted on a recent post, a hidden burial vault in the Amazon cloud forest was accidentally discovered last October by a local farmer. The vault, was found later, contained many mummies from the Chachapoyas culture, along with ceramics, textiles, and wooden objects. The elusive and misterious Chachapoyas, also known as “Warriors of the Clouds” were an ancient civilisation that lived in the cloud forests of the department of Amazonas, in the North of Peru.

El Comercio’s special, though in Spanish, includes stunning photographies and an interactive map of the zone where the mummies were found.

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