Overview

• Utility workers digging a gas pipeline in Puente Piedra uncovered two pre-Incan tombs, with one chamber holding a bundled adult skeleton seated with legs drawn to the chest.
• Archaeologists are meticulously cleaning the torn burial cloths and fragile skeletal remains to preserve key details of the interment.
• Four painted clay vessels and three pumpkin shell artifacts discovered alongside the skeleton bear Chancay-style iconography, dating the site to roughly 1,000–1,200 years ago.
• Cálidda’s two decades of gas network excavations beneath Lima’s streets have produced over 2,200 archaeological discoveries and highlight more than 400 buried pre-Hispanic and Inca sites in the capital.
• Researchers suspect the location is part of a larger cemetery and are conducting further excavations under the residential street to locate additional burials.