Independent UK
By Vishwam Sankaran
January 3, 2024
Archaeologists have unearthed 73 strange mummies in Peru, some with carved masks, from different time periods ranging from around AD800 to AD1100.
The mummies were found in funerary bundles in a “spectacular” state of preservation at Pachacamac – the site of an extensive complex of cemeteries dating to the expansion period of the Wari empire.
Some of the mummies came with masks made of carved wood and ceramics, on so-called “false heads”, meant to give the dead a lifelike presence as they moved to the “world of the ancestors”, say researchers from the University of Warsaw.