Peruvian authorities over the weekend found a pre-Hispanic mummy inside a food delivery cooler bag. It is thought to be between 600 and 800 years old.
According to police, the mummified remains were discovered on Saturday afternoon in a deserted park in the Peruvian city of Puno with three other men who were also intoxicated.
“A 26-year-old male was carrying a package marked “Pedidos Yes.”
Senior agent Marco Antonio Ortega, a spokesman for the National Police in the Puno region, told CNN that they discovered a mummy inside.
A Latin American food delivery app is called Pedidos Yeah.
The mummy was discovered inside the red delivery bag in the fetal position, according to images.
The 26-year-old man, identified by news agency Agence France-Presse as Julio Cesar Bermejo, said he named the remains “Juanita” when speaking to local media, and described them as “like my spiritual girlfriend.”
“At home, she’s in my room, she sleeps with me. I take care of her,” he said in a video, according to AFP.
The Peruvian news agency ANDINA reported Monday that the mummy is in fact believed to be an adult male, and presumed to be from the eastern area of Puno.
It is currently in the custody of the Ministry of Culture, which has classified the mummy as a national cultural asset.
A government official told AFP Tuesday that Cesar Bermejo will remain in detention while investigators look into the case.
Several mummies have previously been found in Peru, which is home to hundreds of archaeological sites of several civilizations that developed before and after the Inca Empire.
In 2021, a mummy estimated to be between 800 and 1,200 years old was unearthed by archeologists at a site near the country’s capital city of Lima.