A pre-Hispanic mummy, between 600 and 800 years old, was found in a delivery man’s backpack. A ‘delivery’ company (home delivery) in the Puno region of Peru, adjacent to Bolivia, official sources reported on Monday. The remains, classified as a national cultural property, likely belonged to a mummified adult man from the eastern part of Puno, the Ministry of Culture said in a statement.
Sources at that office told EFE that, based on preliminary investigations, the individual would be over 45 years old and approximately 1.51 meters tall. They added that the Decentralized Directorate of Culture of Puno “confirmed the authenticity of the pre-Hispanic cultural entity with a relative chronology of about 600 and 800 years.” Following the discovery, the ministry ordered the immediate detention of the remains “for the purpose of preserving and preserving the heritage”.
Authorized units are currently taking the necessary steps for the physical and legal protection of the mummy, which is considered to be the cultural heritage of the Andes Mountains country.
The discovery occurred at a vantage point in Puno last Saturday, according to local media. some cops patrolled found three men who consumed ordinary and alcoholic beverages, one of them A ‘delivery’ box from the company ‘Pedidos Ya’. Inside were human remains and soft tissues in a fetal position. characteristics corresponding to a mummyIt was forwarded to the Ministry of Public Affairs and the Ministry of Culture. According to the news of the newspaper El Comercio, the delivery man claimed that he kept the mummy in his family’s house and took it out for his friends in the neighborhood to see.
Given these facts, the ministry urged the public to “actively cooperate in the defense and protection of cultural heritage” and to report any similar findings to the authorities.