A pre-Hispanic mummy, from between 600 and 800 years oldwas found inside the backpack of a delivery man from a ‘delivery’ company (home delivery) in the Peruvian region of Puno, adjacent to Bolivia, according to official sources.
Through a statement, the Ministry of Culture has specified that the remains, classified as national cultural assetwere identified as a mummified adult man, presumably from the eastern area of Puno.
Sources from that office have detailed to EFE that the individual would be over 45 years old and an approximate height of 1.51 meters, according to preliminary investigations. In addition, the Decentralized Directorate of Culture of Puno “verified the authenticity of the pre-Hispanic cultural asset, with approximately a relative chronology of 600 and 800 years old.”
After the discovery, the ministry immediately ordered the custody of the remains “in order to protect and preserve the heritage.” Now, the competent departments are making the pertinent steps for the physical and legal protection of the mummy, considered a cultural heritage of the Andean country.
The finding, according to local media, occurred last Saturday at a viewpoint in Puno, where some police officers they carried out their usual patrol and they found three men consuming alcoholic beverages, one of them with a ‘delivery’ backpack from the company ‘Pedidos Ya’.
Inside, there were human remains in fetal position and soft tissues with characteristics corresponding to a mummy, which was communicated to the Public Ministry and the Ministry of Culture.
For his part, the dealer claimed that he kept the mummy in his parents’ house and that he took it out to be seen by his friends in the neighborhood, according to the newspaper El Comercio. Given these facts, the ministry called on the population to “actively collaborate in the defense and protection” of cultural heritage and to communicate any similar finding to the authorities.
Source: Lasexta
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