Gas workers uncover 1,000-year-old mummy in Peru

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00:00It is very probable that it has 1.200 to 1.100 years old.

00:25We have been able to determine that the entierry is accompanied by some ceramics

00:32whose characteristics allow us to give a cultural affiliation to the Changkai culture.

00:39At the moment of the excavation of the gas line,

00:42we identified some trees, some trees,

00:46which, by the bibliography that we have previously reviewed

00:49and by the experience that we have had with other findings,

00:54we thought that it was a kind of funeral structure, a tomb.

00:59It allows us to identify and recognize a Lima as a city

01:02with a longer history than the conventional school.

01:09It allows us to identify and recognize a Lima as a city

01:14as a city with a longer history than what nowadays

01:20we have in the conventional schools.

01:23We usually tell Lima as a colonial, Lima-Birrenail,

01:26which is an important stage in the history of the city,

01:29but Lima also has been a city,

01:31a territory that is populated by pre-hispánic cultures,

01:34cultures, pre-hispánicas, cultures, milenarias.