The investigation of mummified remains from a thousand years ago reveals that these South American males were brutally murdered.
Sign up for our email newsletter for the latest science newsThough we tend to think that the ancient world was teeming with violence, is that idea actually accurate?of millennium-old mummies says yes. It states that two of the three South American specimens involved in the investigation showed signs of being brutally murdered.Was violence widespread within the ancient world? It’s a question that some scientists have attempted to answer through the analysis of ancient remains.
"We show lethal trauma in two out of three South American mummies that we investigated," says Andreas Nerlich, a study author and pathologist at the Munich Clinic Bogenhausen in Germany, according to a All three of the mummies involved in this investigation likely formed though this natural method. The first, a 20- to 25-year-old male, came from the Arica region of Chile and died around 1025 to 875 years ago. The other two, a male and a female, came from Arequipa region of Peru, with the male dying as many as 1120 years ago and the female dying more recently, only 800 years ago.
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