Pre-Inca artefacts seized in Peru
March 30th, 2010 - 3:21 pm ICT by IANSLima, March 30 (IANS/EFE) More than 30 artefacts from the pre-Inca and Inca periods including the mummy of a child have been seized from smugglers in Peru.
The antiquities were recovered Friday from two houses in Pisac district in Cuzco region, 1,100 km from Lima.
The mummy was found covered with an Inca cloak and in an apparent state of decomposition. Found in the same house was a fabric of the Paracas culture, along with 23 pre-Inca ceramics from the Chavin and Mochica cultures.
Police also confiscated 15 Inca ceramics from the second house.
The smugglers were planning to sell the artefacts in the black market, police said.
Prosecutors are preparing charges against the smugglers, while the confiscated items will be handed over to the Cuzco centre of the National Institute of Culture.
–IANS/EFE
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