Posted on 10/25/2023 10:47:23 AM PDT by Red Badger
Police in Peru made a surprise discovery when they searched a delivery man who came to their attention for acting drunk at an archaeological site in Puno.
Inside his cooler bag was an ancient mummy.
The man said that he had been sharing his room with the bandaged mummy and considered it "a kind of spiritual girlfriend".
He had put the remains in the bag to show them off to his friends, he said.
He explained that he kept "Juanita", as he had nicknamed the mummy, in a box in his room, next to the TV. He added that it was owned by his father, without specifying how it had come into his father's possession.
Experts said the body was between 600 and 800 years old and that it was that of an adult male rather than a woman, as the man who was discovered with it had assumed.
The mummified male is estimated to have been more than 45 years old at the time of his death and 1.51m tall (4ft 11in).
The mummy was wrapped in bandages in the foetal position which is typical of many of the pre-Hispanic burials in the area.
Mummification was practiced by a variety of cultures in what is now Peru before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors. Some mummies were buried while others were brought out and paraded during key festivals.
Police have seized the mummy carried in the cooler bag and handed it to Peru's ministry of culture, which looks after the country's heritage.
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Carrion Luggage Ping!.....................
PinGGG!.........................
This one could get interesting…
So, his “girlfriend” is a boy.
We’ll leave the necrophilia, for now.
So, his “girlfriend” is a boy
I’ll bet he’s embarrassed after finding that out.
A real mummy’s boy.
Hey, it’s quite common in Thailand and the Phillipines!
...an ancient mummy.
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That’s putting it bluntly. I always liked Rush’s nuanced term “seasoned citizen.”
He said it belonged to his father.
Like Father, like Son...............
Inca Dinca Doo
Inca Incel.........................
Thanks Red Badger. And from his vehicle's sound system was blaring the theme from "Rawhide".
“I don’t know if you’ve seen that mummy,” President Clinton said. “But, you know, if I were a single man, I might ask that mummy out. That’s a good-looking mummy. That mummy looks better than I do on my worst days, I’m telling you. You need to go see her.”
Everyone is a collector of something.
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