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WASHINGTON (May 17) - A female mummy with complex tattoos on her arms has been found in a ceremonial burial site in Peru, the National Geographic Society reported Tuesday.

They said the woman was part of the Moche culture which thrived in the area between A.D. 1 and A.D. 700. The mummy was dated about A.D. 450.

I found the fact that she was a teenager and was buried with weapons, extremely interesting. Could it be possible that they had female leaders? This could get interesting.

Leona Conner wrote:I found the fact that she was a teenager and was buried with weapons, extremely interesting. Could it be possible that they had female leaders? This could get interesting.

She was female and in her 20s. She was buried with a teenage girl, who appears to have been sacrificed. All the tattoos lead me to believe she was some sort of spiritual leader and the weapons may have been a sign of respect from male admirers.

Thanks, I was at work and didn't get to read the complete article. I heard it on the news this morning and they just said that it was a teenage girl with battle axes. They didn't say anything about a second mummy.

I don't know where I got that she was in her 20s. I don't see it in the article anywhere. Anyway she was in her prime and buried with a teenaged girl sacrifice. Lots of gold too.

Let's hope that the National Geographic magazine will have more information. Should be coming soon.

Nat Geo photo spread.

http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/ ... lery1.html

She was likely one of the leaders—maybe even the supreme ruler—of the site now known as El Brujo.

maybe she was well loved by her family and the other mummy was her sister who couldn't bear to part with her.

i don't think there is enough information to make any conclusions yet. why is everyone quick to annoint her the 'joan of arc' of south america?

Loaded with symbolic meaning still not entirely understood

could it be that she just owned a lot of jewelry and her possessions were buried with her?

says Régulo Franco, the lead archaeologist at El Brujo. "It must be a protector deity in the world of the dead

nice leap to a conclusion.

sorry to be skeptical but there are too many inferences here. she may well have been a leader in the cleopatra sense of the word but i don't think she was anything special.

My theory. and I know it's way too early to tell, but....she was maybe a spiritual leader of some sort and well respected by everyone, or maybe a princess and all the weapons were just tokens of respect. There were apparently some men interred in the same general vicinity as well as the girl sacrifice. They do inferr a lot in the article. Conjecture always runs rampant with new finds. ALL new finds, even biblical stuff.

Along those lines, Frank, a few months ago in northern Israel, near the Sea of Galilee, archaeologists found some caverns in which the locals had apparently stored provisions during the first century AD.

From that simple fact they concluded that the Great Revolt of 66 AD was pre-planned and the northern villagers had prepared for the eventual Roman counterattack. Talk about jumping to conclusions!

After seizing Jerusalem and driving back the first Roman force which attempted to reach the city, the Romans began to take the event seriously and Nero (still Emperor at the time) appointed Titus Flavius Vespasianus to reconquer the province. Vespasian was in Syria and Roman preparations were well advertised and anyone with half a brain would have known what was coming and the approximate route of Vespasian's march. Any peasant who did not take precautions (and they certainly would have had time to do so) would have to have been a fool.

Nonetheless....archaeologists swear that these caverns are proof that the Galileans KNEW there was going to be a revolt.