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Preserving the world’s earliest mummies in ChileThe first mummies in the world were created by the Chinchorro people along the coast of what is today northern Chile. In 2021 ...
The city only sees around 0.76 mm of rainfall per year, though its plant and wildlife life is supported by the moisture of a ...
Mummies can be dried in the sun ... who lived on the north coast of what is now Chile, were embalming their dead as early as 5000 BC. Chinchoros embalmers disassembled their corpses, chemically ...
A very sophisticated fishing tribe called the Chinchoros, who lived on the north coast of what is now Chile, were embalming ... Most Inca mummies were arranged in the familiar fetal position ...
Figure 1: Map of northern Chile, showing locations of study fields ... and the Museo Padre le Paige in the Atacama Desert preserve mummies excavated from ruins of cemeteries.
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