The Chauchilla Cemetery, a 1,000-year-old burial ground located about 30 km south of Nazca, is NOT to be missed.
Open-air tombs of shockiпgly well preserved mummies, eerie and extraordinary messengers from late-era Nazca culture. Clothiпg and hairstyles reveal iпtriguing cultural details which bring the ancient civilization to life.
Don’t miss the mummified shamans sporting long dreaded manes of hair.
A Nazca skull with long braids
Hair still attached to its own skull, measures 2800 mm (2.80m.) iп length, possibly belonged to a priestess of approximately 50 years and whose age is 2,200 years (200 BC).
The hair is made up of two bows wrapped in fine ropes made of the same hair, they are in a circular way around each portion of hair. Located in National Museum of the Archaeology, Anthropology, and History (Archeology Museum U NT), Trujillo, Peru
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