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What Do the Floating Figures and Trophy Heads of Paracas Textiles Mean? - The Burial Bundles of Paracas | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the barren coastal desert of the Paracas Peninsula in Peru, almost nothing grows and nothing rots. When archaeologists began excavating in the early twentieth century, they found ancient burial sites containing not just human remains, but vividly colored, elaborately embroidered textiles that had survived for two thousand years. These were not simple burial shrouds. They were massive mummy bundles, layered with hundreds of hours of skilled labor, combining coastal cotton and highland…
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