Manners and monuments of prehistoric peoples (1892)
Nadaillac, Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de, 1818-1904, D'Anvers, N., d. 1933 · New York, London : G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 388
tography reproduced in every detailwhat was once Kamses the Great, one of the mostglorious kings of history. Embalming was also practised in America. Kecenttravellers report ^ having seen in Upper Peru tombs ofthe shape of beehives, made of stones cemented withclay, each tomb containing one mummy… … 365 Fig. log.—Aymara mummy. 366 PRr.IlIsrOKlC PKOPLES. Vega tells us that the dead Iiicas were seated in a teippleat Cuzco, wearing their royal ornaments as if they werestill alive; their hands were crossed upon their breasts,and their heads were bending slightly forward/ The facts enumerated above…
Archaeology
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