A team of Japanese and Peruvian archaeologists has discovered a 3,000-year-old priest’s tomb, the first of its kind, in northern Peru’s Cajamarca region. Ceramic artifacts were also found in the tomb. informs Phys.org.
Researchers have unearthed a mound located 900 km from Peru’s capital, Lima. Two ceramic seals lay next to the corpse. One of them depicted a human face, the second a jaguar. All this was covered in at least six words of earth and ash.
Archaeologist Yuji Seki of Japan’s National Museum of Ethnology told AFP the find is extremely important because the tomb contains one of the first priests and spiritual leaders who ruled temples in the northern Andes around 1000 BC. According to the scientist, the burial confirms that in ancient times on the territory of modern Peru there were powerful rulers of great power.
Researchers from Japan’s National Museum of Ethnology and Peru’s National University of San Marcos have been excavating the northern Andes for 18 years. In previous years, here Numerous tombs dated to 700-600 BC have been discovered.
Earlier archaeologists to create Unusual remains in the tomb of Emperor Wen of China, who reigned in the 2nd century AD. Along with the ruler, a panda and a tapir were also buried as gifts to the gods.