The mummies of San Lorenzo Island

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San Lorenzo Island is 5 miles off the coast of Lima, Peru. This island, as well as the whole Peruvian coast, presents several environmental conditions that make natural mummification a very common phenomenon. This paper explains the reasons for this phenomenon and presents an overview of the bodies recently uncovered by a team of archeologists led by the Peruvian Navy.

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Lombardi, G. P., & García-Cáceres, U. (2005). The mummies of San Lorenzo Island. Journal of Biological Research - Bollettino Della Società Italiana Di Biologia Sperimentale, 80(1). https://doi.org/10.4081/jbr.2005.10185