Chilean Students Discover 7,000-Year-Old Mummy

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Source: Time

A group of youths participating in an archaeology workshop dug up an ancient mummy in northern Chile over the weekend

Chilean students participating in an archaeological dig on Saturday near the Peruvian border hit paleontological gold after discovering the remains of a 7,000-year-old Chinchorro mummy.

Officials from the Chilean National Heritage Office were sent to the dig site in Chile’s Morro de Arica to commence a complete investigation into the recovered remains.

A large number of historical artifacts have reportedly been forced to the surface in swaths of the northern parts of the country following a massive 8.2 earthquake that rocked the area in April, according to AFP.

Read more: http://time.com/117239/chilean-students-discover-7000-year-old-chinchorro-mummy/

[Common Sense Party]

1. THAT would be a workshop to remember. Wow! What a stroke of luck!

One good thing about climate change, I guess.

[SoapBox]

2. But, but, but...

Don't the Book Thumpers say that the Universe is only a couple of hundred years old? Or something like that?

Must be a hoax by science types!

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3. Riding dinosaurs probably before being mummified... nt

[JDPriestly]

4. 7,000 years. Much older than the Egyptian pyramids.

http://www.aeraweb.org/projects/how-old-are-the-pyramids/

[Brother Buzz]

5. That area is the driest inhabited place on Earth

One would assume the climate lends itself well mummification, and why the Chinchorro got such an early start in its practice.