The deserted Peninsula of Paracas is located on the southern coast of one of the most enigmatic countries in South America: Peru.
It’s there, in this arid landscape where the Peruvian archaeologist Julio C. Tello made one of the most mysterious discoveries in 1928. During excavations, Tello discovered a complex and sophisticated cemetery in the rough soil of the Paracas desert.
In the enigmatic graves were a series of controversial human remains that would forever change how we look at our ancestors and our origins. The bodies of the graves had some of the largest elongated skulls ever discovered on the planet, now called the Paracas skulls.
The Peruvian archaeologist discovered more than 300 mysterious skulls believed to be at least 3,000 years old antiquity. The volume of this skull is about 25% bigger than of the average human skulls and they may weigh up to 60% more. Their eye sockets are bigger and their jawline more compact.
Recent DNA analysis has shown that they don’t represent Homo Sapiens, but are another sub-species of our evolutionary human tree.
(Image of a skull in Museo Regional de la Ica, Ica, Peru)
Credit: Merly Jaason~Ancient Marvels of Mankind
