Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:Utility crews constructing a natural gas pipeline in Peru uncovered a 1,000-year-old mummy. Workers laying new natural gas pipeline in Lima, Peru, unexpectedly found something else entirely natural: A 1,000-year-old mummy. Crews digging a trench for the pipeline discovered the mummy of a boy—likely between the age of 10 and 15 years old—in a seated position with dark brown hair still on his head. Human remains discovered on the coast of Peru are found in naturally mummified states not infrequently, as the skin gets dehydrated from summer heat. Cálidda reports that it has made more than 2,200 archaeological finds in the last 20 years alone.