Paracas is a desert peninsula in the province of Pisco in the Ica Region on the southern coast of Peru. In 1928, Julio C. Tello, a Peruvian archaeologist, found one of the most mysterious things here. During the excavation in the region, Tello found a cemetery in the rough soil of the Paracas desert that was very complicated and sophisticated. The site was an ancient burial ground, but the remains of the people buried there were very unusual. They seemed to have elongated skulls. These skulls came to be known as the Paracas skulls and are still a mystery yet to be unraveled.
The mysterious Paracas skulls found inside the tomb
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In the mysterious tombs, Tello found many controversial human remains that changed all that is known about the human race’s origins. Some of the bodies in the tombs had the largest, most elongated human skulls ever discovered in the world. An archaeologist in Peru found more than 300 strange skulls that are thought to be at least 3,000 years old.
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Recent DNA analysis reveals the skulls may not be human skulls
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As if the shape of the skulls weren’t strange enough, a recent DNA analysis of some of the skulls shows some of the most bizarre and amazing results. These findings challenge everything known about the human evolutionary tree and its origin. In the Peruvian city of Ica, these skulls are on display at the Museo Regional de Ica.
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An ancient religious practice was to change the shape of the skull
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Skull deformation (elongation) was done in many different cultures around the world, but the methods were different, so the results were also different. Some South American tribes “tied the skulls of babies” to change the shape of their heads. This gave the babies’ heads a very long shape. By applying constant pressure over a long time with old tools, the tribes were able to perform cranial deformations that are also found in ancient African cultures.
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