I visited the Chauchilla Cemetery whilst in Nazca. This cemetery was looted by grave robbers of it's treasures, leaving the mummies to hang about. As you can see in the photo the mummies are all place in a fetal position in a shallow grave. There are also fragments of bones, human hair and broken pieces of pottery to around. The mummies have been dated back to 1000 AD!
The whole area is pretty desolated, as the landscape is desert like, with high sand dunes and very little vegetation. How the grave robbers found this site is a mystery to me. It all look a bit morbid to our little group (2 English, 2 Dutch and me) of backpackers.
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