The two small specimens were described by experts as humanoid dolls.
Lima:
A pair of “alien mummies” that mysteriously appeared at the Peruvian capital's airport last October have entirely terrestrial origins, according to a scientific analysis revealed Friday.
The two small specimens were described by experts at a press conference in Lima as human-like dolls, and likely made of both human and animal parts. A separate hand with three fingers, believed to be from Peru's Nazca region, was also analyzed, with experts ruling out any link to extraterrestrial life.
“They are not aliens. They are dolls made from animal bones from this planet, joined together with modern synthetic glue,” said Flavio Estrada, an archaeologist at the Peruvian Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences.
“It's a made-up story,” Estrada added.
The two statues turned up at the airport offices of courier DHL in Lima in a cardboard box and resembled mummified bodies dressed in traditional Andean clothing. Some media outlets subsequently speculated about a possible extraterrestrial origin.
Last September, two small mummified bodies with elongated heads and three-fingered hands were displayed during a hearing in the Mexican Congress, generating a lot of media attention. Mexican journalist and UFO enthusiast Jaime Maussan claimed the bodies were about 1,000 years old and were recovered from Peru in 2017, but were not related to any known species.
Most experts later dismissed them as fraud, possibly mutilated ancient human mummies combined with parts of animals, but certainly from Earth.
At the press conference in Lima on Friday, organized by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture, experts did not say that the dolls found in the DHL office were related to the bodies presented in Mexico, but emphasized that the remains in Mexico were also not from being an alien.
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