{"id":2240,"date":"2009-09-26T00:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-26T00:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2009-09-26T00:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-26T00:39:00","slug":"peru-its-mummy-mania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2009\/09\/peru-its-mummy-mania\/","title":{"rendered":"Peru: It\u2019s mummy mania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video\/video.php?v=1203269609149&#038;ref=mf\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/Sr1jbjVGldI\/AAAAAAAAHOI\/Xk52RcGzFks\/s320\/peru.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Buried in a country riddled with murder, mystery and a million years of intrigue, another mummy bites the dust.<\/p>\n<p>A 2,000 year old mummy was found with legs bound by a cord in the foetal position, in the Northern Highlands of Peru a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>This new discovery by a team of Japanese archaeologists comes just after PromPeru\u2019s announcement to hold media conferences  and travel trade workshops about a \u2018Super-Mummy\u2019 \u2013 La Senora de Cao &#8211;  another important find.<\/p>\n<p>La Senora de Cao (the Lady of Cao) was the first known governess of Peru.  A museum dedicated to her was opened in April of this year and is already drawing record numbers of tourists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMummies are found here all the time\u201d said Rosana Guinea PromPeru\u2019s Coordinator for Oceania.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeru is a great destination for Indiana Jones type of travellers who want adventure and the opportunity to explore ancient civilizations.\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about Peru\u2019s fascinating mummies at the media conferences and travel trade workshops help by PromPeru, in Sydney and Melbourne late October.<\/p>\n<p>For information call 02 9997 1526, email peru@miraworld.com or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/video\/video.php?v=1203269609149&#038;ref=mf\">watch the video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buried in a country riddled with murder, mystery and a million years of intrigue, another mummy bites the dust. A 2,000 year old mummy was found with legs bound by a cord in the foetal position, in the Northern Highlands of Peru a couple of weeks ago. This new discovery by a team of Japanese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}