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Henan Museum
Archaeologists work at a site on a hillside in Puruchuco
Time: 2007-09-04 07:59:59
  
  
       Archaeologists work at a site on a hillside in Puruchuco, Peru, a suburb of Lima, at the request of the Lima government, where an Inca graveyard with 72 people who were hastily buried was found.  
 
       Archaeologist Guillermo Cock examines a skeleton that was one of 72 found buried with no ceremonial offerings, suggesting they died during an attack. The bodies were not facing the right direction and had been tied up or hastily wrapped in a simple cloth and buried at shallow depth. Some of them showed signs of terrible violence.