Smuggled Peruvian mummy seized
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May 29, 2011, Sunday
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AN ancient mummy and three skulls from a pre-Incan Peruvian culture that were smuggled as ceramics to be sold on Europe's black market were confiscated by Argentine tax agency officials on Friday, officials said.
The artifacts are presumed to be remains of the Paracas culture, an Andean society that prospered from about 500 BC to 200 BC. The skulls and the mummy were sent from La Paz, Bolivia - stuffed in ceramics or wrapped in valuable cloth - to an Argentine citizen in Buenos Aires, the AFIP tax agency said.
The archeological pieces were declared at Argentine customs as Peruvian ceramics and were on their way to be sold in Europe.
The artifacts are presumed to be remains of the Paracas culture, an Andean society that prospered from about 500 BC to 200 BC. The skulls and the mummy were sent from La Paz, Bolivia - stuffed in ceramics or wrapped in valuable cloth - to an Argentine citizen in Buenos Aires, the AFIP tax agency said.
The archeological pieces were declared at Argentine customs as Peruvian ceramics and were on their way to be sold in Europe.
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