ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY OF THE CENTURY
The archaeologist American Rohn Reinhard has just summed up in one of the most resonant discoveries in his scientific career in Salta, when rescuing of the summit of the volcano Llullaillaco three Inca mummies that the snow of the Andean mountain range maintained intact during more than 500 years.
You could confirm that it is three mummies, a man, a woman and a boy, this last one of approximately 12 years, all in incredible conservation state, as it has not been seen in many years.
The same source indicated that the remains were rescued to two meter deep, under the snowy summit of the Llullaillaco, where historical documents and works archaeological preliminary had established the existence of the highest indigenous sanctuary in the world.
One sees in the camp it bases to 5800 meters high, the funeral bales were inventoried by the director of Cultural Patrimony of the County, Mario Lazarovich who was in the place next to the archaeologist from Buenos Aires Marķa Constanza Ceruti, to other of other members of Peruvian origin of the expedition and a group of the Fifth Brigade of the Argentinean Army.
Military troops accommodated the archaeological remains inside a box conditioned with dry ice and they went up them to one from the jeep 4x4 correspondents to the place for the Army.
In this vehicle guarded by another of the same force, the long descent began to the city of it Jumps, through salares, tolares, mining paths and hills difficult to describe, and located at 500kilometros of this city. Here, the three Inca mummies will be subjected to a series of scientific studies. These, in their group, helped historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and archaeologists to incognito numerous develar on the enigmatic Inca empire that extended from I Remove, for the Mountain range, Until Mendoza, in what is known as the " Tawantinsuyo ".
THE PIECES WILL BE IN A SPECIAL PLACE
The singular importance that you had the archaeological discovery taken place in territory of Salta took to the government of the County to prepare that the found pieces are preserved under those but demanding technological norms. In this sense, governor Juan Carlos Romero prepared that they are adopted the forecasts of the case immediately, either in the Archaeological museum of the north or where the specialists consider convenient", so that the dedicated pieces, according to the experts, to become a scientific and tourist attractiveness of first level are conserved in appropriate form. In the place the mummy of the Snowy one of the Qewar will also be deposited, located February 22 in Santa Rosa of the Big Grasses, department of you Walk them, in this county.