Lima, Peru’s capital, has become a hotbed of archeological discoveries in recent years. Now, diggers have unearthed 3 ancient Incan burial bundles, ones buried near residential areas of the South American city.
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00:00 Lima, Peru's capital, has become a hotbed for archaeological discoveries in recent years.
00:08 Now diggers have unearthed three ancient Incan burial bundles, ones buried near residential
00:13 areas of the South American city.
00:14 They say the bundles include two adults and likely one child, discovered in the Incan
00:19 administrative center called Tamboinga.
00:22 Excavations of the site began some three months ago, and archaeologists leading the dig believe
00:26 the recently found remains were buried there 500 years ago.
00:30 Their goal is to reconstruct the Incan way of life through the discovery of remains and
00:34 relics, hoping to better understand the long-gone culture.
00:37 One of the burial bundles they found was a woman between the ages of 18 and 23.
00:42 Based on the remains, the archaeologists say she was likely of an elite class, though they
00:45 did not provide any reason as to why they came to that conclusion.
00:49 This is just the latest in a growing list of finds in Lima this year alone.
00:53 Back in September, diggers found a burial chamber with another mummy.
00:56 That one is believed to have been buried in 1000 AD, or more than 1000 years ago.
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