Chile’s archaeologists fight to save the world’s oldest mummies from climate change
Jannina Campos walks up a sandy hillside in Arica, a port city on the edge of the Atacama desert, the driest place on the planet. The desert graveyard where the ancient Chinchorro decorated and buried their dead is now a Unesco World Heritage site. Each indicates skeletal remains recently uncovered by unusually strong winds and increased rainfall. “Every time a body appears we place a flag, and we bury it again,” said Campos, an archaeologist. “They’ve been preserved there for 7,000 years.”
Source: theguardian.com