Mysterious Artifacts Found in Ancient Inca Cemetery in Ecuador

The construction of a long-awaited irrigation water tank will have to wait a little longer for farmers living in the central region of Ecuador. When work began they found ancient human remains and when the archaeological team was brought in for a salvage mission, they unearthed more skeletons in the earth. But the skeletal remains of people who lived roughly 500 years ago are only part of the story. A couple of strange artifacts found in the ancient Inca cemetery have created new puzzles for local archaeologists to try to solve.

The First Signs of the Ancient Inca Cemetery

According to El Comercio, the first signs of the ancient Inca cemetery under a field in Mulaló – a rural district of Latacunga in the province of Cotopaxi, came in the form of a skull and a pot that were unearthed in 2019.

It didn’t take long for local authorities to decide that the artificial reservoir local people had been waiting to see for more than a decade would be put on hold a little longer so an archaeological team could come in and find out what else was under the land. However, there has been a lack of federal funding for archaeological research, so the mayor of Latacunga, Byron Cardenas, hired an archaeologist to complete a salvage mission and investigation of the site’s archaeological contents.