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The Cloud Warriors: Sarcophagi Sentries Perched on the Cliffs in Peru
Researchers would have never guessed what they would find inside a seven-foot-tall statue when it came crashing down the Peruvian cliffside in the Utcubamba valley in 1928. The sculpture was a sarcophagus holding a carefully wrapped mummy. Its discovery was just the beginning to the fascinating story of the Cloud Warriors.Chachapoya mummies. (pmoroni/CC BY SA 2.0)
As more of the sarcophagi were found, they became known as the purunmachu, where the ‘
Warriors of the Clouds ’ placed their dead. Although looters had reached many of the sarcophagi before archaeologists, several purunmachu were discovered intact, hidden high up on cliff ledges.
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