Check Out These 3 Ancient Incan Mummies Discovered in Peru

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Lima, Peru’s capital, has become a hotbed of archeological discoveries in recent years. Now, diggers have unearthed 3 ancient Incan burial bundles, ones buried near residential areas of the South American city.

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00:00Lima, Peru's capital, has become a hotbed for archaeological discoveries in recent years.

00:08Now diggers have unearthed three ancient Incan burial bundles,

00:12ones buried near residential areas of the South American city.

00:15They say the bundles include two adults and likely one child,

00:18discovered in the Incan administrative center called Tamboinga.

00:21Excavations of the site began some three months ago.

00:24An archaeologist leading the dig believe the recently found remains

00:27were buried there 500 years ago.

00:30Their goal is to reconstruct the Incan way of life through the discovery of remains and relics,

00:35hoping to better understand the long-gone culture.

00:37One of the burial bundles they found was a woman between the ages of 18 and 23.

00:42Based on the remains, the archaeologists say she was likely of an elite class,

00:45though they did not provide any reason as to why they came to that conclusion.

00:49This is just the latest in a growing list of finds in Lima this year alone.

00:53Back in September, diggers found a burial chamber with another mummy.

00:56That one is believed to have been buried in 1000 AD, or more than 1000 years ago.

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