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Lead archeologist Julio Abanto told Reuters the 500-year-old
tomb contains "multiple funerary bundles" tightly wrapped in
cloth.
He said the entombed were likely elites from the Riricancho
society, a culture that once populated present-day Lima before
the powerful Inca came to rule a sprawling empire across the
length of western South America in the 1400s.
Famed for their gold and sophisticated constructions, including
the mountaintop royal retreat of Machu Picchu, the Inca were
conquered by Spanish invaders in 1532.
Hipolito Tica, the owner of the house in Lima, said in an
interview he was overcome with emotion at the surprise find.
"It's amazing. I really have no other words to describe it," he
said, expressing a hope that future generations in the
working-class San Juan de Lurigancho neighborhood will better
appreciate the rich history all around them.
Excavations began last month after Tica's reconstruction plans
for his property triggered a required archeological survey in a
Lima district known for hundreds of past archaeological finds
from cultures that developed before and after the Inca.
(Reporting by Carlos Valdez; Writing by Carolina Pulice; Editing
by David Alire Garcia and Lisa Shumaker)
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