LIMA, Peru—Archaeologists in northern Peru have unearthed four human remains believed to be more than 3,000 years old in a stretch of barren land that appears to have housed a ceremonial temple honoring the gods of an ancient local culture.
The funeral bundles were found nestled between some mud and stone walls near a valley in the dry, coastal Viru Province in the South American nation’s La Libertad region, home to many major ancient cultures over the millennia.
Feren Castillo, an archaeologist at the National University of Trujillo in Peru who heads a research project in the area, said the remains and the walls were likely 3,100 to 3,800 years old....
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