Peruvian archaeologists discovered the funerary remains intact from a woman mask and a child sacrificed Wari culture, about 1,300 years ago, in an excavation carried out in an archaeological site in the area urban Lima.
"It is a multiple grave in which were found intact three funeral bundles, one has an impressive mask with human characteristics of a woman," he told AFP archaeologist Isabel Flores, who directs the work at the Huaca Pucllana in a central district of Miraflores.
Researcher explained that members of this culture placed a mask on the front of the skull in the ritual burial bundle as noble female character buried.
"is a woman because we found around and instrumental offerings as a textile weaver" , said the scholar after indicating that it is normal for the burial remains of children because they were offered to accompany the adults.
"The Lady of the Mask" , as it has been dubbed, is the first tomb found intact Wari Huaca Pucllana in Lima.
"It is an important finding found in tombs Huaquan several years (dropped) but not in intact, "said Flores.
The discovery was made the first week of August in the fifth platform where archaeological research conducted 24 years .
As part of the discovery were also found remains of pottery and textiles.
The wari buried their dead within bundles of ropes made of vegetable fiber that filled with leaves to protect the body and adorned in sometimes with funerary masks, said the newspaper El Comercio reported that discovery.
The pre-Inca Wari culture developed between the years 700 and 1000 AD in the South Andean department of Ayacucho, and continued until reaching the central coast in the departments of Lima and Ica, and Cajamarca in the north.
The Huaca Pucllana is considered one of the most important pre-Columbian ceremonial and administrative center of Lima.
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