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Photograph of a mummy's skull
taken at the Inca and pre-Inca archaeological site located at Pachacámac, Peru,
located just to the south of the District of Chorrillos in the Lima metropolitan
area. Similar to the pots and textiles in the previous photo of a grave
robber and his three sons, this skull of a Peruvian mummy was illegally dug up
from graves at Pachacámac before it was fenced off and protected by the Peruvian
Government's INC ("Instituto Nacional de Cultura" - National Institute of
Culture). Sadly, virtually all the archaeological significance of an
artifact such as this mummy skull is lost when removed by tomb raiders seeking
"trophies" such as this. None of the scientific data associated with this
illegal archaeological dig will ever be recorded and its significance will be
lost forever. This individual could have been an important Inca princess
or noble, but we will never know due to the informal manner in which it was
collected.
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