Mysterious mummy dating back up to 1,200 years is discovered in an underground tomb in Peru with its whole body tied up by ROPES and its hands covering its face

Archaeologists excavating an underground tomb in Peru have uncovered a strange mummy

The remains of the individual, whose Sєx has not been identified, was found at the Cajamarquilla archaeological site, some 16 miles from the capital city of Lima.

According to the team, the mummy dates back 1,200-800 years and belonged to the pre-Inca civilisation that developed between the Peruvian coast and mountains.

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Archaeologists excavating an underground tomb in Peru have uncovered a strange mummy preserved fully bound up in ropes, with its hands covering its face, as pictured

The remains of the individual, whose Sєx has not been identified, was found at the Cajamarquilla archaeological site (pictured), some 16 miles from the capital city of Lima

The remains of the individual, whose Sєx has not been identified, was found at the Cajamarquilla archaeological site (pictured), some 16 miles from the capital city of Lima

Archaeologist Pieter Van Dalen Luna, head responsible for the Cajamarquilla Archeological project shows the mummy estimated to be between 800 and 1,200 years old

According to the team, the mummy (pictured) dates back 1,200-800 years and belonged to the pre-Inca civilisation that developed between the Peruvian coast and mountains

‘The main characteristic of the mummy is that the whole body was tied up by ropes and with the hands covering the face,’ said lead archaeologist Pieter Van Dalen Luna of the California State University San Marcos

The mummy's elaborate binding, Professor Van Dalen Luna explained, 'would be part of the local funeral pattern'. Pictured: Professor Van Dalen Luna (right) with archaeologist Yomira Huamán Santillán (left) and the bound mummy (centre), in the latter's tomb

The mummy’s elaborate binding, Professor Van Dalen Luna explained, ‘would be part of the local funeral pattern’. Pictured: Professor Van Dalen Luna (right) with archaeologist Yomira Huamán Santillán (left) and the bound mummy (centre), in the latter’s tomb

Peru is home to hundreds of archaeological sites derived from cultures that developed both before and after the Inca Empire.

The Inca once dominated the southern part of South America, all the way from southern Ecuador and Colombia to central Chile, and first arose in the Peruvian highlands sometime in the early 13th Century.

The Incan Empire fell at the hands of the Spanish conquistadors, who began their invasion in 1532 and seized the Inca’s last stronghold in 1532.

The mummified individual, Professor Van Dalen Luna explained, would have lived in the high Andean region of what is today Peru — some 600–200 years before the rise of the Inca people

The mummified individual, Professor Van Dalen Luna explained, would have lived in the high Andean region of what is today Peru — some 600–200 years before the rise of the Inca people. Pictured: the Cajamarquilla archaeological site, which spans some 167 hectares

The mummified individual, Professor Van Dalen Luna explained, would have lived in the high Andean region of what is today Peru — some 600–200 years before the rise of the Inca people. Pictured: the Cajamarquilla archaeological site, which spans some 167 hectares

The remains of the individual, whose Sєx has not been identified, was found at the Cajamarquilla archaeological site, some 16 miles from the capital city of Lima

The remains of the individual, whose Sєx has not been identified, was found at the Cajamarquilla archaeological site, some 16 miles from the capital city of Lima

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