Lady of Cao. Artwork of the Lady of Cao (centre),a Moche female mummy found near Trujillo,Peru. The diagram at left shows where the funeral bundle was found and the objects placed around it,including a sacrificed teenage girl. At right are the objects found in the funeral bundle,which,unusually for a woman,included weapons. The mummy also had complex tattoos of animals on her body. The Moche were a pre-Inca civilisation that lived along Peru's north coast between 100 and 700 AD. The mummy has been dated to 450 AD | |
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Crédit: | Science Photo Library / JOSE ANTONIO PEÑAS |
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