About the time of Christ, he died in a valley near Pisco,* on the coast of southern Peru. He was probably a high priest or a chieftain because his honored body had been carefully wrapped in layers & layers of cloth and buried far out on a barren desert. As the centuries passed, his people were killed or dispersed and all memory of them vanished. Last week his mummy, unwrapped with loving care at New York's American Museum of Natural History, showed what an odd and gorgeous culture had flowered in a desert-ringed Peruvian valley 20 centuries ago.
The mummy, one of...
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