Archaeologist Pieter Van Dalen Luna (left), head responsible for the Cajamarquilla Archeological project shows, next to archaeologist Yomira Huam, a mummy estimated to be between 800 and 1,200 years old, unearthed earlier this month at the pre-Inca Cajamarquilla archaeological site, 25 kilometers inland from Lima, on November 30, 2021. BY CRIS BOURONCLE/ AFP
Archaeologist Pieter Van Dalen Luna (left), head responsible for the Cajamarquilla Archeological project shows, next to archaeologist Yomira Huam, a mummy estimated to be between 800 and 1,200 years old, unearthed earlier this month at the pre-Inca Cajamarquilla archaeological site, 25 kilometers inland from Lima, on November 30, 2021. BY CRIS BOURONCLE/ AFP

LIMA: Archeologists in Peru working on a site in the outskirts of the capital Lima have unearthed a mummy believed to be between 800 and 1,200 years old — and, surprisingly, bound with rope.

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