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    The dead “mummy bundles” who influenced the living
Jago Cooper from the British Museum tells Neil MacGregor about the role played by ancestors in the Inca Empire. The “mummy bundles” they describe were mummified some time around 1500.
Illustration © The Trustees of the British Museum.
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