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Rare burial of elite toddler from pre-Inca culture found in Peru

The tomb sits inside a mausoleum at the Huaca de la Luna temple, and held thirty-two ceramic objects; the only child of more than eighty burials there to get one.

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Photo: Ministerio de Defensa del Perú · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN

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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorArchaeologists in northern Peru have found the fifteen-hundred-year-old burial of a toddler from the Moche culture, and I have to say, it's a beautiful one.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThe child was at most two years old, and the tomb was big enough to hold an adult.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThat's what the project director, Carlos Rengifo-Chunga, said.

  4. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA whole room for the smallest person in it. I'm sorry, I'm fine, there's something in my eye.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentThere were thirty-two ceramic pieces in there, plus a copper mask-like disk over the face.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentOf more than eighty burials at that platform, it's the only child who got this.

  7. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorOnly one! Out of eighty!

  8. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentGood news rating: the warmest tomb on record.

  9. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentAnd the grave goods are a lot to ask of a kid, but this one finally got a room all to himself, and nobody was going to wake him up for a nap.

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