"The Mystery of Eldorado-Peruvian Andean Civilization Special Exhibition" will open at the Guangdong Provincial Museum on January 22.
The reporter visited the museum in advance on the 21st and learned that there were more than 200 exhibits, including pottery, metal, textiles, and mummies.
Among them, a well-preserved adult male mummy (1300-1550 AD) was unearthed in a cave near northwestern Peru. It was naturally dried and wrapped in cotton cloth.
This man has artificially enlarged his earlobes and is most likely to have worn large earrings.
The ring worn on the middle finger of the right indicates his high status.
According to reports, the aboriginal people in the Andes region invented the mummy method for preserving the remains of their ancestors, nearly a thousand years earlier than the ancient Egyptian mummies.
Compared with ancient Egypt, the Inca mummies are more like a big package, with layers of shrouds wrapped around the textiles and other supplies from this life.
(Reporter Cheng Jingwei edited by Le Xiaomin)
Editor in charge: [Li Yuxin]