Peru presents child mummies found in pre-Inca city

Archaeologists in Lima presented Tuesday the mummified remains of 20 individuals, eight of them children, found recently in a large pre-Inca area south of the capital of Peru. The child mummies are associated with a mummy, a man from a high-class who was found with his hands covering his face, discovered in 2021. The mummy discovered in 2021 was covered in cotton fabrics and had its hands and body tied with a rope made of vegetables. The discovery was made in Cajamarquilla, a pre-Inca epicenter of more than 1,400 years located 16 kilometers northeast of Lima's main square. Archeologist YomiraHuaman, one of the leaders of the research project, said they were surprised by the findings.