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Dog Mummies Found in Ancient Peru Pet Cemetery
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Sep. 26, 2006
Just as modern dog lovers pamper their pets with morsels from the table and space on the bed, it seems that ancient Peruvians also treated their dogs like members of the family.
That's the conclusion archaeologists have reached after uncovering more than 40 mummified dogs in a thousand-year-old pet cemetery south of Lima, Peru.
Peruvian anthropologist Sonia Guillen and her team made the find while excavating a human cemetery of the Chiribaya culture, an agricultural society that thrived from A.D. 900 to 1350, before the rise of the Inca.
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Website: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060925-dog-mummy.html
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