A group of students discovered a 7,000-year-old mummy during a trip to
northern Chile, local media reported Monday.
A group of Chinchorro mummies — dated between 5000 B.C. and 3000 B.C. —
are on display
during the exhibition "Arica, a Thousand-Year-Old Culture," on Aug. 27,
2008, in the
cultural center of the La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago,
Chile Claudio Santana
La Tercera newspaper reported that the find was made by chance Saturday
during a visit to the Morro de Arica site by local students.
Ancient archeological artifacts have been forced toward the surface
following the powerful 8.2 earthquake that rocked the region in April,
reports say.
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