Alien Mummies | Case File 264

While Egypt is the first civilization that comes to mind when the topic of mummification is mentioned, they were far from the only culture to observe elaborate burial rites and practice the art of ritual mummification. Along the coastal regions of Southern Peru and Chile in South America archaeologists have been uncovering mummies which predate those of ancient Egypt by nearly 2000 years. Unfortunately, many of these sites fall prey to tomb robbers and bandits who raid these important cultural sites for anything of value. In 2015 a group of these individuals claimed to have stumbled onto something much more valuable than...