Utility worker who excavated the former incan grave in Peru has 1,000-year-old body

Lima, Peru (AP) – Utilities workers expanded their underground gasoline network in Peru capital on Thursday. One was empty, but the other was holding a man’s 1000-year-old body, along with four clay boats and three pumpkin shell artifacts.

This is not the first time that archaeological remains have been discovered in Cálidda, a company that distributes natural gas in Lima. The company said more than 2,200 discoveries have been made over two decades of mining efforts to expand the underground network.

According to archaeologist José Aliaga, the portrait of the ship, and its black, white and red, “let us connect with the former incan Chancay culture, which is about 1,000 to 1,470 years.” Aliaga told the Associated Press that the man was found wrapped in a torn bundle, sitting on his legs with his legs resting against his chest, and his team will continue to clean the remains.

“Lima is unique in the Latin American capital because in almost every civil project, various archaeological discoveries have been unearthed.”

According to the Ministry of Culture, the capital of Peru is a city of 10 million people, with more than 400 archaeological sites from the Inca period in the 15th, 15th century or earlier.

On Thursday, passers-by stopped to observe the cemetery and even took out their cell phones to take pictures.

“I always thought it was a road without people,” said Flor Prieto, who traveled with her 7-year-old daughter. “But now I know that the people who live there… feel very exciting.”

“On the Peruvian coast, the main elements of funerals, including Lima: graves, burials, and those who include mummies,” said Pieter Van Dalen, director of the Peruvian archaeologist. Van Dalen was not involved in Thursday’s discovery.

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