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What Happens When the Dead Are Kept Among the Living for Generations? - The Chinchorro Mummies of the Atacama Coast | Sleepy Facts About History
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Seven thousand years ago, long before the first Egyptian pyramids, small fishing communities on the coast of the Atacama Desert began deliberately transforming their dead. They disassembled bodies, removed organs, and rebuilt human forms using reeds, clay, and pigment. These were the Chinchorro, a prehistoric society without agriculture, cities, or kings, yet they developed the earliest known artificial mummification in the world.
This episode examines how these ancient communities lived…
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