A pre-Hispanic mummy, estimated to be between 600 and 800 years old, was discovered in a thermal food delivery bag by Peruvian police over the weekend.
The police told CNN that the mummified remains were found with three men drinking in a deserted park in the Peruvian city of Puno on Saturday afternoon (25).
“A 26-year-old male had a delivery bag labeled ‘Ya Orders’. Inside they found a mummy,” he told the CNN senior agent Marco Antonio Ortega, spokesman for the National Police for the Puno region.
Ordemdos Ya is a Latin American food delivery app.
Images from the discovery showed the mummy in a fetal position inside the red birthing bag.
The 26-year-old, identified by Agence France-Presse news agency as Julio Cesar Bermejo, said he called the remains “Juanita” when speaking to local media and described them as “my spiritual girlfriend”.
“At home, she stays in my room, sleeps with me. I take care of her,” he said in a video, according to AFP.
Peruvian news agency Andina reported on Monday that the mummy is actually believed to be an adult male and presumably from the eastern area of Puno.
It is currently in custody of the Ministry of Culture, which classified the mummy as a national cultural asset.
Peru’s Ministry of Culture A government official told AFP on Tuesday (28) that Cesar Bermejo will remain in detention while investigators investigate the case.
Several mummies have already been found in Peru, which is home to hundreds of archaeological sites from various civilizations that developed before and after the Inca Empire.
In 2021, a mummy estimated to be between 800 and 1,200 years old was unearthed by archaeologists at a site near the nation’s capital, Lima.
Source: CNN Brasil
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