Overview

• Calidda gas workers uncovered the burial while installing a pipeline in Puente Piedra, marking the site’s second Chancay find this month.
• Archaeologist José Pablo Aliaga said the tomb contained a man wrapped in cloth alongside pottery vessels, signaling a larger burial complex.
• Material evidence dates the remains to the pre-Inca Chancay culture, which thrived on Lima’s coastal plains roughly 1,000 to 1,200 years ago.
• The discovery follows last month’s unearthing of a Chancay mummified woman nearby, reinforcing the presence of an extensive pre-Hispanic cemetery.
• Calidda alone has logged over 2,200 archaeological discoveries since 2004 in a city that hosts more than 400 pre-Hispanic sites.