Peru has found the mummy of a baby about 2000 years old

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is campaigning to recover Peruvian cultural heritage distributed around the world, announceda Peruvian mummy of Aymara origin, which would have an antiquity of 2,000 years"

The mummy has 50 centimeters in length and is wrapped in a bundle of ropes it covers it almost completely, except for the face that stays in the air. We see only part of the skull with some teeth and bones of the foot. Now he will be exhibited at the Anthropological Museum of Lima.

He was made by the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History, Texas, at the Consulate General of Peru in Houston, in the same southern state of the United States.

"This cultural heritage of the nation was officially restored on January 4, after the efforts undertaken by the Embbady of Peru in the United States with the aforementioned museum," said the Foreign Ministry in its statement.

The The Aymara live in the Andean plateau of Lake Titicaca since the pre-Columbian period, and its population is now spread between the west of Bolivia, southern Peru and northern Chile.

The baby's mummy He had arrived at the museum in 1960 from the Museum of Natural History in New York. and it has been exposed for decades, the Foreign Ministry added.

A technical report from the Ministry of Culture established its authenticity and determined that its origin was the southern highlands of the country. Authorities did not specify how or when he was removed from Peru.

In 2018, Peru recovered more than 1,700 cultural properties from the United States, Switzerland, Norway, the United Kingdom, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador and the United States. l & # 39; Australia. It was mainly canvas, ceramics and fabrics. The country was the cradle of great civilizations such as the Inca Empire (1438-1533) and later became the capital of the Spanish Viceroyalty (1542-1824).

(With information from AFP)