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A 3,000-year-old mummy — purportedly buried in a ritual sacrifice — was discovered by archeologists who dug through eight tons of trash at a garbage dump in Peru. Traces of the grisly artifact were ...

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Archaeologists working on Peru’s northern coast have uncovered remnants of ritual sacrifice which researchers say is the first evidence of such violence in the region, Archaeology Mag reported.