This photo provided by the National Geographic Society shows a golden bowl over her face and beads spilling from long-disintegrated necklaces of a Moche elite woman with skin intact lying in her grave bundle in Peru. Originally wrapped in an enormous mummy bundle, the young woman was found with ceremonial war clubs and 23 spear throwers, leading archaeologists to wonder if she had been a ruler - the first known female ruler from the Moche culture. Research on the mummy is conducted by the Wiese Foundation with the co-direction of Peru's National Institute of Culture. (AP Photo/Ira Block, National Geographic)
Photo shows the copper bundle of a mummy from the ancient Moche culture that was discovered at the pyramid Huaca Cao Viejo, located at a ceremonial site called El Brujo (the Wizard) in Trujillo, August 13, 2005. The elaborately wrapped mummy,a young woman who died in her late 20s and believed to have been a member of the Moche elite, is dated to around A.D. 450, according to Peruvian archaeologists. The site of Huaca Cao Viejo was opened for visitors after the Wiese Foundation/INC restored and covered the site. PICTURE TAKEN AUGUST 13, 2005. EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/Wiese Foundation/Handout
Peruvian archaeologist inspects the tattooed arm of a mummy from the ancient Moche culture that was discovered at the pyramid Huaca Cao Viejo, located at a ceremonial site called El Brujo (the Wizard) in Trujillo, May 12, 2006. The elaborately wrapped mummy,a young woman who died in her late 20s and believed to have been a member of the Moche elite, is dated to around A.D. 450, according to Peruvian archaeologists. The site of Huaca Cao Viejo was opened for visitors after the Wiese Foundation/INC restored and covered the site. PICTURE TAKEN MAY 12, 2006. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo
Photo shows the face of a mummy from the ancient Moche culture, that was discovered at the pyramid Huaca Cao Viejo, located at a ceremonial site called El Brujo (the Wizard) in Trujillo, May 12, 2006. The elaborately wrapped mummy,a young woman who died in her late 20s and believed to have been a member of the Moche elite, is dated to around A.D. 450, according to Peruvian archaeologists. The site of Huaca Cao Viejo was opened for visitors after the Wiese Foundation/INC restored and covered the site. PICTURE TAKEN MAY 12, 2006. REUTERS/Mariana Bazo