Glittering, unlooted tomb of queens discovered in Peru

au.yahoo.com ^ | 6-28-2013

[Renfield]

A rare, unlooted royal tomb has been found in Peru, replete with gold and silver riches, the mummified bodies of queens and other, less-adorned bodies thought to have been human sacrifices.

The pristine state of the site is something of a miracle, say archaeologists, surrounded as it is by other heavily looted areas.

The queens ruled over the Wari, an ancient civilization that built South America's earliest empire between 700 and 1000 AD, National Geographic reports.....

[Renfield]

Ping

[a fool in paradise]

Now the museums can plunder it. For the state, of course.

[amihow]

Then those bad Christianized Europeans came and their human sacrifice hsd to stop. Mean civilized Christians.

[BenLurkin]

Interesting.

I've been reading Brothers of Doom by Hoffman Birney.

It's surprising the Pizzaro boys didn't find this one and loot it.

[flaglady47]

Aha! As George Zimmerman is Peruvian, he can go hide in one of the local tombs. They’ll never find him.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Renfield.

[ApplegateRanch]

When did they start referring to skeletal remains, with no preserved soft tissue parts, as “mummies” and “mummified”?

I’m seeing this over and over again in the press, when the photos clearly show only bones or a skeleton.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Some day in the far future, a similar “den of queens” will be discovered in long-past San Francisco, or perhaps Provincetown.

[uglybiker]

When did they start referring to skeletal remains, with no preserved soft tissue parts, as “mummies” and “mummified”?

When they decided to find out just how far Billy would go.

Did ah hear someone say mummies?!