Скачать или смотреть Chauchilla Cemetery near Nazca, Peru

The forgotten Culture of Nazca was discovered in the sands of the Nasca Desert, and it was brought to evidence both by grave robbers and by archeologists.
In the amazing Chauchilla Cemetery, bodies from the ancient Nazca people were preserved by natural mummification in the arid climate.
Through their habit of burying their people, this Culture left to us mummies, ceramics, colorful textiles, skull and devices, practically untouched.
Chauchilla is about 30 km from Nasca city and it impresses by the quantity of mummies still available for visiting.
Unfortunatelly, it was a known location by thiefs or tombs robbers, mainly in the last part of the 20 century. They used to invade the tombs, picked the treasures and the mantles , and just left the mummies and some belongs of less importance exposed on the desert.
The poor population took advantage of this tombs. Some belongs, specially clothes, were sold in the market hicking almost U$ 20.000,00 ( and now you guess the purpose of so much robbery).
Scientists by Ica State and the local touristic industry organized themselves and reconstructed the burial sites in the way they were found and protected the area for visitation, which is now an official archeological zone.