Chilean Students Discover 7,000-Year-Old Mummy
Source: Time
A group of youths participating in an archaeology workshop dug up an ancient mummy in northern Chile over the weekend
Chilean students participating in an archaeological dig on Saturday near the Peruvian border hit paleontological gold after discovering the remains of a 7,000-year-old Chinchorro mummy.
Officials from the Chilean National Heritage Office were sent to the dig site in Chiles Morro de Arica to commence a complete investigation into the recovered remains.
A large number of historical artifacts have reportedly been forced to the surface in swaths of the northern parts of the country following a massive 8.2 earthquake that rocked the area in April, according to AFP.
Read more: http://time.com/117239/chilean-students-discover-7000-year-old-chinchorro-mummy/
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)One good thing about climate change, I guess.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Don't the Book Thumpers say that the Universe is only a couple of hundred years old? Or something like that?
Must be a hoax by science types!
winstars
(4,220 posts)JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,434 posts)One would assume the climate lends itself well mummification, and why the Chinchorro got such an early start in its practice.