Cusco, May 14 (ANDINA).- The two Inca burials found in the recent months at the Torontoy archeological site, in the Machu Picchu Historic Sanctuary (Cusco), have atypical features, which distinguish them from common burials carried out during the Inca empire, said Omar Gallegos Gutierrez, resident archaeologist of the excavations works.
Burial found in November 2008 correspond to a 30 to 35 year-old adult man of the Inca nobility, while the burial discovered in April 2009 belongs to a 14 to 15 year-old man.
Gallegos explained that archeologists’ hypothesis is that these burials were held during the period of the Spanish conquest (after 1533), in a hastily way and without saving the strict guidelines of the Incas.
He noted that the Incas who inhabited this area, to escape of the Spanish advance, abruptly abandoned their possessions when they were forced to flee to Vilcabamba, in Cusco jungle, where the last four monarchs: Manco Inca, Sairy Tupac, Titu Cusi Yupanqui and Tupac Amaru I, took refuge for forty years.
"Abandonment which is corroborated because there are architectural evidences or indicators that the openings, niches and floors of the premises of the place were sealed on purpose by the Incas before their departure," Gallegos explained.
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