New York Post reported this, Ukrinform reported.

Eight mummified men wrapped in cotton cloth and tied with ropes were found in a 1 meter deep ditch by employees of the Calidda company, which provides natural gas to residents of the Peruvian capital.

Archaeologists believe the mummies belong to a pre-Incan culture called the Ichma, which formed around 1100 AD and flourished in the valleys around Lima.

The mummies were found alongside opium pipes, handmade cigarettes, shoes, Chinese playing cards and a Peruvian silver coin.

Archaeologist Roberto Quispe, who worked at the trench, told The Associated Press that the mummified bodies likely belonged to two adults and six young males.

As Ukrinform reports, at the beginning of August, an international group of paleontologists discovered the fossilized remains of a whale in southern Peru, vying for the title of heaviest animal to ever exist on Earth.