(31 Jul 2025)
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Lima, Peru – 31 July 2025
1. Gas company workers around a gas pipe excavation in a street where human remains were found
2. Human remains surrounded by clay pots and sticks
3. Various of clay pots
4. Various of skull and burial site
5. Archaeologist cleaning sand with brush in burial site
6. Various of burial site
7. Archeologist working next to gas pipes
8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Pablo Aliaga, archaeologist:
"In a working area we found a funerary site where we identified one individual with a funerary trousseau, which until now consists of four clay pots and three gourd cups."
9. Archaeologist Aliaga working in site
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Pablo Aliaga, archaeologist:
"This is apparently a Prehispanic cemetery which has been disappearing as the city grows."
11. Aliaga inspecting site
12. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Jose Pablo Aliaga, archaeologist:
"The nature of our project, which is basically excavating to extend and install these gas networks, was halted immediately in that section. We are still working in the rest of the areas where we are allowed to do so."
13. Interior of burial site ++MOBILE PHONE QUALITY AS INCOMING++
14. Local resident Flor Priet with daughter looking at burial site
15. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Flor Prieto, local resident:
"I was shocked to learn that there are human remains from the ancient Inca times just at the same place where my children use to walk."
16. Priet with daughter looking at burial site
17. Poster of the gas company indicating restricted archaeological site
18. Workers looking at burial site
STORYLINE:
Workers of a company extending the gas network in the outskirts of Lima, Peru, found ancient human remains and a funerary trousseau, which was cleaned and inspected by an archaeologist on Thursday.
The Calidda Natural Gas company workers closed the area for archaeologists to inspect the site and halted their work in that section of the street.
Jose Pablo Aliaga, an archaeologist hired by the Calidda Natural Gas company, described what he had found after a week working in the area.
Aliaga believes it a thousand-year-old burial site belonging to the Chancay culture, which inhabited these desertic seaside hills nearly a millennium ago.
This pre-Inca culture settled in the northern part of Lima, extending from the Huaura to the Chillon valleys.
Aliaga found two tombs built with adobe bricks, one of which was empty, while the other contained canes made from the local huarango tree, four clay pots, and three gourd cups.
The cups and pots were painted in red, white and black dyes, which Aliaga said were common among the Chancay.
Despite being two tombs, only one set of human remains was found.
Aliaga said this could be a lead for an ancient cemetery hidden behind the urban sprawl.
"I was shocked to learn that there are human remains from the ancient Inca times just at the same place where my children walk," said Flor Prieto, a local resident who brought her daughter to the archaeological excavation.
Lima was one of the cradles for ancient civilizations in the Americas, some of which have inhabited the area for over 3,000 years.
Nearly all excavations render a discovery, which is always impressive and a source of pride for the residents.
The city is dotted with more than 400 declared archaeological sites.
AP Video shot by Cesar Barreto
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