August 30, 2025
Workers find 1,000 year old mummy while installing pipes
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Workers find 1,000 year old mummy while installing pipes

Peruvian care workers recently found a 1,000-year-old mummy while installing pipes in Lima, said her company and confirmed the recent discovery of a pre-Hispanic grave in the capital.

The workers found the trunk of a Huarango tree (a kind of coastal peru), which in the past served as a grave marker.

The mummy of a boy between 10 and 15 years was found at a depth of 20 inches, he added.

“The burial and the objects correspond to a style that was developed between 1000 and 1200,” he said.

The remains discovered on Monday were found according to Bahamonde “in a seated position with curved legs”.

Experts work for the remains of a pre-Hispaner funeral, which was found during an excavation to install a gas pipeline in Lima on June 19, 2025. / Credit: Ernesto Benavides / AFP via Getty Images

Experts work for the remains of a pre-Hispaner funeral, which was found during an excavation to install a gas pipeline in Lima on June 19, 2025. / Credit: Ernesto Benavides / AFP via Getty Images

They were found in a barbecue that also contained Kalabash pumpkins.

In addition to the mummy, ceramic objects, including plates, bottles and jugs, were decorated with geometric figures and fish fishermen.

The grave and the artifact are part of the Chancay culture in front of the Inca, which lived in the Lima region between the 11th and 15th centuries.

They were discovered while gas workers removed the earth from a street in the Piedra district in northern Lima.

Jose Aliaga, an archaeologist at supply company Cálidda, said that the dug mummy still had dark brown hair.

“We found remains and prove that there could be a pre -dispanic funeral,” said Aliaga.

An expert keeps a piece while working for the remains of a pre-Hispaner funeral that was found during an excavation to install a gas pipeline in Lima on June 19, 2025.

An expert keeps a piece while working for the remains of a pre-Hispaner funeral that was found during an excavation to install a gas pipeline in Lima on June 19, 2025.

In Peru, supply companies have to hire archaeologists if they drill the earth because the possibilities of the cultural heritage locations occur.

Calidda has achieved more than 2,200 archaeological finds since 2004.

Lima houses over 500 archaeological sites, including dozens of “Huacas”, since old cemeteries are known in the indigenous Quechua language.

“It is very common to find archaeological remains on the Peruvian coast, including Lima, mainly grave: graves, burials and among these mummified persons,” said Pieter van Dalen, Dean of the College of Archaeologists from Peru.

Van Dalen, who is not involved in the discovery, said that mummies usually be mummified in desert areas on the Peruvian coast, with the skin dehydrated through summer heat. He explained that other excavated remains have undergone mumification procedures for cultural reasons and were usually discovered in a seated position with their hands that cover their faces.

In April, archaeologists in Peru announced that they found them 5,000 year old remains of a noble woman In the Holy City of Caral in an area that has been used as a dump for decades.

Just a few days earlier, researchers found excavation work in the south of Peru Remains of two dozen people It was assumed that they are fake victims.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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