Peru gas workers uncover nearly 1,000-year-old children’s burial site

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Workers for gas company Cálidda found the site in Lima’s Carabayllo district when they were digging a pipeline. The site could date to pre-Hispanic times.

An archaeologist at gas company Cálidda, Jesus Bahamonde, told reporters Friday that among the eight bundles found so far were what the archaeologists believe to be the remains of six children and two adults, wrapped in cloth along with artifacts as burial offerings.

He said they probably date back to the pre-Inca Ychsma culture that was formed in the valleys of modern-day Lima centuries ago.“We are recovering those leaves of the lost history of Lima that is just hidden under the tracks and streets,”

 

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