PHOTOS: "Unexpected" Male Found in Pre-Inca Tomb?

PHOTOS: ''Unexpected'' Male Found in Pre-Inca Tomb?
PHOTOS: ''Unexpected'' Male Found in Pre-Inca Tomb?
PHOTOS: ''Unexpected'' Male Found in Pre-Inca Tomb?
PHOTOS: ''Unexpected'' Male Found in Pre-Inca Tomb?
PHOTOS: ''Unexpected'' Male Found in Pre-Inca Tomb?
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A gilded mask was found on the floor of a double-chambered tomb belonging to the pre-Inca Moche culture of Peru, archaeologists announced in September 2009.

The mask is similar to one found affixed to a wooden coffin that contained the bones of an elite male. Excavation leader Castillo Butters suspects the mask might have been left behind from another coffin that was mysteriously removed from the tomb.
—Photograph courtesy Luis Jaime Castillo Butters
 

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