What DNA Revealed About The 7,000 Year Old Mummies Found In Chile Is Extremely Interesting

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Two thousand years before the Egyptians wrapped their first pharaoh, a fishing culture on the coast of the Atacama Desert was already mummifying their dead. The Chinchorro people — living along the Pacific coast of present-day northern Chile and southern Peru from roughly 7000 to 1500 BCE — created