Mummy Found In Chile By At-Risk Students Dates Back 7,000 Years

7,000-Year-Old Mummy Discovered By At-Risk Students
A Chinchorro mummy of a child - dated between 5000 B.C. and 3000 B.C. - is on display during the exhibition 'Arica, a thousand-year-old culture', on August 27, 2008, in the cultural centre of the La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago. In the Chinchorro culture, everyone who died was mummified, and it was not a symbol of high social status. AFP PHOTO/Claudio Santana (Photo credit should read CLAUDIO SANTANA/AFP/Getty Images)
A Chinchorro mummy of a child - dated between 5000 B.C. and 3000 B.C. - is on display during the exhibition 'Arica, a thousand-year-old culture', on August 27, 2008, in the cultural centre of the La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago. In the Chinchorro culture, everyone who died was mummified, and it was not a symbol of high social status. AFP PHOTO/Claudio Santana (Photo credit should read CLAUDIO SANTANA/AFP/Getty Images)

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