Photo: Rare Mummy Found With Strange Artifacts, Tattoo in Peru

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His eyes covered with metal plates and his face painted red—signs of elite status—a mummy of Peru's ancient Chancay culture was unbundled in June 2008

The centuries-old male was found with slingshots and other artifacts and suggests the Chancay—which ruled a coastal valley from about A.D. 1000 to 1500—may have been more powerful than previously thought.

Photograph by Kit Nelson/Tulane University

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