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Archaeologists in Peru announced that they found the 5,000 -year remains of a noble woman in the sacred city of Caral, in an area that was used for decades. The new discovery revealed the important role played by women at the oldest civilization center in the Americas, the researchers said.

“What has been discovered corresponds to a woman who apparently had a high status, an elite woman,” said archaeologist David Palomino to News.

The mummy was found in Scepter, a sacred site within the city of Caral that was a trash dump for more than 30 years until it became an archaeological site in the 1990s.

Palomino said that carefully preserved remains, dating from 3,000 years a. C., contained skin, part of the nails and hair and were wrapped in a cover made of several layers of fabric and a mantle of macaw feathers. The macaws are colorful birds that belong to the Parrot family.

The funerary trousseau of women, who presented journalists at the Ministry of Culture, included a peak of Tucan, a stone bowl and a straw basket.

“This is an exceptional burial due to the preservation of the skin, hair and nails, a rare condition in this area, where only skeletal remains are recovered,” said the Ministry of Culture of Peru in a press release.

Preliminary analyzes indicate that the remains found in December belong to a woman between 20 and 35 who was about 5 feet high, and with a headdress, made with packets of twisted threads, which represented their high social status.

Palomino told journalists that the finding showed that “it was generally thought that the rulers were men, or that they had more prominent roles in society” women “had played a very important role in the civilization of Caral.”

Caral Society developed between 3000 and 1800 a. C., almost at the same time as other great cultures in Mesopotamia, Egypt and China.

The city is located in the fertile Valle de Supe, about 115 miles north of Lima and 12 miles from the Pacific Ocean.

He was declared a UN Heritage at UN Heritage in 2009.

The Ministry of Culture said the discovery follows other elite burials found in rough, including the “Lady of the Four Tupus” in 2016, and the “elite man” in 2019.

Earlier this month, researchers who carry out excavation work in southern Peru found an old grave full of the remains of two dozen people They are believed to be battle victims.

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