00:02this video was recently captured in peru's capital of lima and this is the wacala florida
00:08archaeological site where archaeologists have just discovered five ancient mummies this site is a
00:143500 year old pre-incan temple belonging to the eachma peoples of the five mummies four of them
00:20are children two of which are covered in cloths while the others are simply skeletons what's
00:24really wild is how old they are with the oldest of the five being at least a thousand years old
00:29the eachma people lived along the peruvian central coast from 900 to 1450 a.d they later became part
00:35of the larger incan culture they often lived far inland but maintained a high standard of living
00:39due to their impressive irrigation methods especially for the time however the archaeologists
00:44add that some of the architecture at the site even predates their culture in fact they say
00:48this staircase was likely built by the manche culture built around 5 500 years ago
00:59the crest of the
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