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Last spring, archaeologists unearthed a massive Incan grave-yard sunk beneath the impoverished town of Puruchuco, Peru. Their payoff: It may be the biggest stash stash Drug slang noun A place where illicit drugs are hidden of mummies, or well-preserved human corpses, ever found from a single historical period--A.D. 1200 to 1527. Many of the 2,200 mummies, like this 500-year-old Incan skeleton, were encased en·case
tr.v. en·cased, en·cas·ing, en·cas·es
To enclose in or as if in a case.
en·case ment n. in giant cotton "mummy bundles." The bundles were stuffed with food, weapons, silver jewelry, and other offerings believed to comfort the dead in their transition to an afterworld.
Entombed Entombed, or entomb, may refer to: - To entomb is to inter a body in a tomb.
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1.8 meters (6 feet) beneath dry desert soil, the mummies are remarkably well-preserved. "Many still have skin, fingernails, even eyes," says anthropologist (human culture scientist) Brian Bauer at the University of Illinois University of Illinois may refer to: - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (flagship campus)
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- University of Illinois at Springfield
- University of Illinois system
It can also refer to: . "The coast of Peru is one of the driest places on Earth, so people buried there can last for thousands of years." By "digging up the dead," Bauer hopes to unlock clues to the ancient culture of the Incan Empire.
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