From the BBC: Peru ruins reveal their history.
Posted on May 17, 2005 10:28 AM. Filed under: history & archaeology.Archaeologists digging at the ruins of Pachacamac in Peru say they have discovered a multi-level burial site.
Mummy bundles of entire families were found in the graves from various eras, built on top of each other, they say.
The researchers described the find as "exceptional" as the previously ignored cemetery had not been looted and is completely intact.
Pachacamac, south of the capital, Lima, is thought to have been ruled by the Ychsma lords from 900 to 1470.
The Incas turned it into a place of pilgrimage and it was abandoned after the Spanish conquest. [continue]