The remains of the “elite woman”, who died 5,000 years ago, was discovered on the former garbage discharge site in Peru

Peruvian archaeologists announced that they had found 5,000 -year -old remains from Nabila in the holy city of Karaal, in an area that was used for decades as a garbage quilt. The researchers said that the new discovery revealed the important role that women play in the oldest civilization center in the Americas.

“What was discovered is compatible with a woman who was apparently high, an elite woman,” archaeologist David Paluminino told AFP.

The mummy was found in Asbro, a sacred location inside the city of Carle, which was a garbage discharge for more than 30 years until it became an archaeological site in the nineties.

Palumino said that the carefully preserved residue, dating back to 3000 BC, contains skin, part of nails and hair, and was wrapped in a shroud made of several layers of fabric and coffee of crying feathers. Macaws are the colored birds that belong to the parrot family.

Trosseau, the funerary, which was presented to the journalists in the Ministry of Culture, the Maksuq al -Takqaq, included a stone container and a straw basket.

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

Initial analyzes indicate that the remains in December belong to a woman between the ages of 20 and 35, with a length of about 5 feet, and wearing a headscarf-made of bundles of twisted strands-which represent her high social status.

Palumino told correspondents that the discovery showed that “he generally believed that the rulers were men, or that they had prominent roles in society” women played a very important role in the Carle civilization. “

The Carral Association has evolved between 3000 and 1800 BC, almost the same as the great cultures in Mesopotamia, Egypt and China.

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

The United Nations World Heritage website was announced in 2009.

The Ministry of Culture said that this discovery follows the burials of the other elite in Asbro, which spoils the “Four Lady of Topos” in 2016 and “elite males” in 2019).

Earlier this month, researchers who carried out excavations in southern Peru found an ancient grave full of The remains of twenty people It is believed that it is the victims of the battle.