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  • 700-year-old Peruvian mummies found (so well preserved – an eye and internal organs intact)

    02/24/2004 6:35:01 AM PST · by dead · 15 replies · 373+ views
    Reuters via SMH | February 25, 2004
    Two of the oldest mummies found in Peru - so well preserved that one had an eye and internal organs intact - have gone on display after their discovery by building workers two weeks ago. Officials from the National Institute of Culture said the mummies - a young boy and a man in his mid-30s - were at least 700 years old. They came from a culture that predated the Incas, who dominated a vast swathe of South America from Colombia to Chile until they were toppled by Spanish invaders in the 1530s. Well preserved ... one of the recently...