A Nazca skull with long braids Hair still attached to its own skull, measures 2800 mm (2.80m.) in length, possibly belonged to a priestess of approximately 50 years and whose age is 2,200 years (200 BC).

A Nazca skull with long braids Hair still attached to its own skull, measures 2800 mm (2.80m.) in length, possibly belonged to a priestess of approximately 50 years and whose age is 2,200 years (200 BC).

A 1500-year-old Nazca skull of a woman with long braided hair, measuring over 2 meters in length. Now housed at the Regional Museum of Ica "Adolfo Bermudez Jenkins" in Peru [1440x1920] :

 

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