Peru's Mummy Bundles

Digs & Discoveries May 1, 2011

More than a thousand years ago, an adult and three small children were buried high atop Huaca Pucllana, a ceremonial complex in the center of what is now the modern city of Lima, Peru.
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At the ceremonial complex of Huaca Pucllana in Lima, Peru, archaeologists have uncovered an undisturbed Wari tomb with four mummy bundles, thought to contain a woman and three infants.(Enrique Castro-Mendivil/Reuters/Landov)

More than a thousand years ago, an adult and three small children were buried high atop Huaca Pucllana, a ceremonial complex in the center of what is now the modern city of Lima, Peru. Their bodies had been carefully wrapped in several layers of textiles and leaves, and e

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