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Added on the 21/07/2020 14:00:00 - Copyright : EFE Inglés
Archaeologists work at the excavation site of a newly discovered pre-Hispanic burial chamber in Peru's northern department of Cajamarca. The site, where human remains and several items used as offerings were found, was devoted to the cult of ancestors, according to experts.
The Sandoval brothers, a family of musicians well known in the Mexican town of Nezahualcoyotl, mix punk rock with traditional instruments of the pre-Hispanic Aztec civilisation in their band -- determined to preserve their country's musical heritage.
Police in Peru seized a 600 to 800-year-old mummy from a former delivery man who claims it was his "spiritual girlfriend" for 30 years.
Peruvian police officers and members of the Ministry of Culture find a pre-Hispanic mummy in the isothermal bag of an ex-delivery man in Puno, who refers to her as his "spiritual girlfriend". The man will remain in detention while investigators look into the case, a government official told AFP.
After a four-year search, a team of archaeologists, led by Sam Ghavanmi, have found a 1,000-year-old mural, known as the "Huaca Pintada," in a village in Lambayeque, northern Peru.