Ancient Sican Cemetery Discovered in Peru with 1,000-Year-Old Skeletons
Ancient Sican Cemetery Discovered in Peru with 1,000-Year-Old Skeletons
By Hannah Osborne | January 16, 2014 12:43 PM GMT
An ancient Sican cemetery with 35 tombs believed to be up to 1,000 years old has been discovered on a building site in the north of Peru.
Workers involved in an irrigation project near Chiclayo in the Lambayeque region unearthed 12 other tombs last year and since then, the site has been excavated by an archaeological service company, which made the discovery.
Experts say the tombs belong to the Sican culture, which lived on Peru's north coast between 750 and 1375 AD, El Comercio reports.
The bodies had been buried with offerings including ceramics, textiles and gold-plated copper pieces.
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