Archaeologists in Peru announced that they had discovered the remains of the 5,000-year-old nobleman in the sacred city of Caral, a region that has been used as a garbage dump for decades. The new finding reveals the important role women play in the oldest center of civilization in the Americas, the researchers say.

"The discovery is with a woman who obviously has an elevated status, an elite woman," Archaeologist David Palomino told AFP.

The mummy found a garbage dump in Aspero, a sacred site in the city of Carl, for more than 30 years until it became an archaeological site in the 1990s.

Palomino said the carefully preserved remains, dating back to 3,000 B.C., contains a portion of skin, nails and hair and is wrapped in a shroud made of several layers of fabric and a pile of spur feathers. Macaws are colorful birds belonging to the parrot family.

The woman's funeral Trousseau introduced to the Ministry of Culture reporters, which included a beak of the siege, a stone bowl and straw basket.

"This is a special burial due to the preservation of skin, hair and nails, and in the area there are usually only bone residues," the Peruvian Ministry of Culture said in a press release.

Preliminary analysis shows that the body found in December belongs to a woman aged 20 to 35, who is about 5 feet tall and wears a headdress - a headdress made of a bunch of twisted threads, representing her improved social status.

Palomino told reporters the discovery showed that while “ruling is usually considered men, or they play a more prominent role in society, women “play a very important role in the Karal civilization.”

The Caral Society grew from 3000 to 1800 when it was the same as other great cultures in Mesopotamia, Egypt and China.

The city is located in the fertile Supe Valley, about 115 miles north of Lima and 12 miles from the Pacific Ocean.

It was declared a UN World Heritage Site in 2009.

The Ministry of Culture said the discovery came after other elite funerals discovered by Áspero, which entangled "the ladies of four tupus" in 2016, "the elite men" in 2019).

Earlier this month, researchers who conducted excavations in southern Peru discovered that an ancient tomb was full of The remains of twenty people Being considered a victim of combat.