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  • Spectacular Tomb Containing More Than 80 Individuals Discovered in Peru

    05/24/2012 8:28:44 AM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 8 replies
    ScienceDaily ^ | May 22, 2012 | AlphaGalileo
    A team of archaeologists from the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) has discovered a spectacular tomb containing more than eighty individuals of different ages. This discovery -- provisionally dated to around 1000 years ago -- was made at the site of Pachacamac, which is currently under review for UNESCO World Heritage status. Pachacamac, situated on the Pacific coast about thirty kilometres from Lima, is one of the largest Prehispanic sites in South America... It was here -- directly in front of the Temple of Pachacamac -- that the most important discovery was made. A scatter of later period burials was...