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Family grave at Chauchilla cemetery

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Lying at the foot of bare hills in an empty stretch of pampa, the Chauchilla cemetery contains well-preserved mummies of the Nazca era in their original graves.
It is absolutely amazing to see these old remains - they are around 2000 years old - sitting in their graves, many still with (sometimes very long) hair, with clothes, patiently waiting for time to pass. Bones and skulls bleached by time and expore to the merciless sun try to show that our body can actually last for very long. Tombs still have remains of gifts for the dead that were given for the afterlife. Many graves are family graves, and it is quite shocking to see how many very young skulls there are. Indeed, because of diseases and bad nutrition, Nazcans never grew older than around 35 years. The tiny museum among other things shows a mummy which, upon closer inspection, shows signs of mutilation: the lips and eyes sewn together, which was apparently done as a punishment while the victim was still alive; the person died that way.
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