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Owen Jarus

5,000-year-old burial of elite woman with inlaid toucan's beak found in Peru

A picture of a woman's preserved body in a grave.

Archaeologists in Peru have discovered the burial of an elite woman with remarkable grave goods, including decorative crafts made from a toucan's beak and macaw feathers.

The woman lived sometime between 3000 and 1800 B.C., and her well-preserved body was found in the ruins of the ancient town of Aspero, which is located in western Peru, about 0.4 miles (0.7 kilometers) from the Pacific Ocean, Peru's Ministry of Culture said in a translated statement.

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