7,000-Year-Old Chinchorro Mummies are the World’s Oldest - JUST PARANORMAL
The mummies of ancient Egypt are arguably the most famous mummies in the world. They are not, however, the oldest. The Chinchorros of South America began preserving their dead about 7,000 years ago and their mummies have become one of the wonders of Andean Archaeology . UNESCO has just recently recognized the cultural value and importance of the Chinchorro mummies by adding them to the World Heritage List. Chilean anthropologist and expert on the mummies, Bernardo Arriaza, explained the significance of this recognition, saying, “UNESCO is validating on an international level, through different experts, that the settlements and artificial mummification of the Chinchorro culture has exceptional value, that it has a global importance.” The Chinchorro People The Chinchorros were a people who inhabited the coast of the Atacama Desert in what’s now northern Chile and southern Peru between 7000 and 1500 BC. The people of this culture relied on fishing, hunting, and g...

The carving itself is known as “An Enthroned Lady with an Attendant’s Grave Naiskos” and, according to most scholars, it depicts the offering of a very unusual item that seems to look a lot like a laptop.
You can see two holes in the side of her laptop that could be USB ports.
You can find it at the J Paul Getty Museum if you’re actually in California. It is worth visiting, to put it mildly.
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