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Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Photo: Tombs of Pre-Inca Elite Discovered Under Peru Pyramid


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This decorated tumi, or ceremonial knife, was one of two found in a network of tombs under a pyramid in Peru. The knife, which is Peru's national symbol, had never before been found undisturbed; all of the other known tumi had been looted by tomb raiders over the centuries, archaeologists say.

Photograph courtesy Izumi Shimada/PAS