A More than 7,000 years mummies have just had an unusual
check-up after they were embalmed by the
Chinchorro people, an ancient civilization in modern-day Chile and Peru, 15
mummies were taken to a Santiago clinic last week to undergo DNA analysis and
computerized tomography scans.
The people who lived from 10,000 to3400 B.C on the Pacific coast
of South America, They were among the first people in the world to mummify
their dead. Their mummies date back some 7,400 years — at least 2,000 years
older than Egypt’s.
The 15 Chinchorro mummies, mostly children and unborn
babies, were put through a CT scanner at the Los Condes clinic in the Chilean
capital. Researchers
also took skin and hair samples from the mummies to analyze their DNA, in hopes
of identifying genetic links with the modern-day population.
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