‘My non secular girlfriend’: Peru man discovered carrying 800-year-old mummy in supply bag

“At home, she’s in my room, she sleeps with me. I take care of her,” the Peru man advised the native media.

Lima,UPDATED: Mar 1, 2023 12:25 IST

The mummy was within the isothermal bag the person had as soon as used to ship meals to folks’s houses. (Image: Peru’s Ministry of Culture)

By Agence France-Presse: Police in Peru have seized a mummified human, between 600 and 800 years previous, from a former meals supply man who claimed to have had it at his dwelling for 3 a long time.

The mummy was within the isothermal bag the person had as soon as used to ship meals to folks’s houses.

The man, 26-year-old Julio Cesar Bermejo, will stay in detention whereas investigators look into the case, a authorities official advised AFP on Tuesday.

Bermejo advised native media the mother, who he known as “Juanita,” was “like my spiritual girlfriend.”

“At home, she’s in my room, she sleeps with me. I take care of her,” he stated in a video that went viral on social media.

Bermejo stated his father introduced the mother dwelling nearly 30 years in the past.

According to the Ministry of Culture, the pre-Hispanic relic was a “mummified adult male individual, presumably from the eastern area of Puno”, a area within the Peruvian Andes some 1,300 kilometers (greater than 800 miles) southeast of Lima.

“It’s not a Juanita, it’s a Juan,” a specialist on the ministry affirmed, including the mother was of a person not less than 45 years previous.

The physique was wrapped in bandages within the fetal place.

Police discovered the stays in Bermejo’s bag on Saturday whereas patrolling a park within the metropolis of Puno, the place he had been hanging out with pals.

He denied he was making an attempt to promote the mother and stated he was carrying it round as a result of “my friends wanted to see it.”

The tradition ministry stated it had taken possession of the mummified stays “with the aim of protecting and preserving this heritage.”

Peru is wealthy in archaeological websites and objects. Its most visited vacationer vacation spot is the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, constructed within the fifteenth century close to Cusco.

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Mar 1, 2023