Archaeo-Histories on Nostr: Mummy of a baby inside a jar... from Cajamarca culture (500 BC - 1470 AD). Wrapped in ...

Mummy of a baby inside a jar... from Cajamarca culture (500 BC - 1470 AD). Wrapped in a textile cloth, 1 by 1 plain technique; you can see part of face, soft tissue: skin, two teeth such as incisors in upper jaw, as well as locks of light brown hair.

Funerary bundle is inside an urn which in this case is brown ceramic vessel, with an inverted conical shape and divergent straight sides. As in ancient Egypt, they believed that vessels emulated mother's womb, so that baby is born in other world.