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Deep Dive: Rare burial of elite toddler from pre-Inca culture discovered in Peru
Archaeologists in Peru have found an elaborate 1,500-year-old tomb that may hold the remains of a high-status toddler from a pre-Inca civilization. The burial, which is from the Moche culture, also contained vessels depicting prisoners with rope around each of their necks and a sculpture of a human-bird deity. Moche (also known as Mochica) culture developed along the northern coast of what is now Peru from the third to the ninth century.
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