Abstract

San Lorenzo Island is 5 miles off the coast of Lima, Peru. This island, as well as the whole Peruvian coast, presents several environmental conditions that make natural mummification a very common phenomenon. This paper explains the reasons for this phenomenon and presents an overview of the bodies recently uncovered by a team of archeologists led by the Peruvian Navy.

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