Found on Monday in an underground tomb on the outskirts of the country’s coastal capital of Lima, the body is thought to date back to pre-Inca times.
The mummified adolescent was wrapped in a funerary bundle, with ceramic objects, rope and bits of skin and hair nearby.
Archaeologists believe the mummy, found at an archaeological site in Cajamarquilla, is one of 20 buried in the area likely killed as a ritual sacrifice.
The burial bundle was found in a ‘good state of conservation’, said lead archaeologist Yomira Huaman.
The way the teen was buried was unlike other mummies that have been discovered in the past.
Archaeologists unearth 1,000-year-old teenage mummy still in a 'good state'
The mummified adolescent was wrapped in a funerary bundle, with ceramic objects, rope and bits of skin and hair nearby.
Archaeologists believe the mummy, found at an archaeological site in Cajamarquilla, is one of 20 buried in the area likely killed as a ritual sacrifice.
The burial bundle was found in a ‘good state of conservation’, said lead archaeologist Yomira Huaman.
The way the teen was buried was unlike other mummies that have been discovered in the past.
Archaeologists unearth 1,000-year-old teenage mummy still in a 'good state'
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