15:04 | Lima, Oct. 24 (ANDINA).
Archaeologists at the Huaca Pucllana ruins in Lima, Peru, have unearthed an undisturbed pre-Incan tomb containing two corpses wrapped in ceremonial fabric.
According to authorities in Lima's Miraflores district, where the archaeological site is located, this is the third tomb found intact by scientists working at the Huaca Pucllana.
The tomb, believed to be more than 1,000 years old, contains the bodies of an adult and an infant, along with a number of intact artifacts.
The funerary bundles belonged to the Wari culture and were found buried inside a wall on the sixth platform of the Great Pyramid at the site.
"When we unwrap the bodies, we will be able to determine the adult's age, position in society and gender," Isabel Flores, an archaeologist at Pucllana, was quoted as saying by Reuters.
The Wari civilization was active in an area that now contains Lima from approximately 600 to 1000 AD, some 500 years before the Inca empire emerged.
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Published: 10/24/2013