Tomb Discovered In Peru That Dates Back To 1000 A.D.: Three Queens, Servants And Golden Treasure Found Inside

Tomb discovered in Peru from a time believed to be over 1,000 years ago and for months now, a secret digging leads to the discovery of three queens, the servants who accompanied them and golden treasure was inside the tomb.

The tomb discovered in Peru dates back to a time approximately 1,2000 years ago. Antiquity officials in Peru made the announcement and said the tomb was part of the "Temple of the Dead," which was named by the National Geographic Society -funded research team led by Milosz Giersz of Poland's University of Warsaw.

This tomb discovered in Peru belonged in the El Castillo de Huarmey, which in translation means the Castle on the River Huarmey. The discovery showed that the ancient Wari were rulers of southern Peru before 1000 A.D. and the advent of the Inca Empire, according to USA Today.

The mausoleum was excavated in secret over several months this year to deter looters. Inside the tomb were 1,200 artifacts, including gold earrings, silver and copper jewelry, bronze axes and silver bowls, according to USA Today.

"I was really very, very surprised to find the site unlooted," Giersz told USA Today. Essentially the burial chamber that the team uncovered, after removing 30 tons of gravel from a passageway, was a tomb set aside solely for female nobility at the site, once a palace from where Wari overlords ruled over some 40,000 people.

About 40,000 people lived around the mausoleum site, once part of a palace compound that served as a home to these rulers. They were put on display for ceremonies for everyone to see. 

"Unusual and rare, we don't see female high-status rulers in the art of the Wari very often," says archaeologist Christina Conlee of Texas State University in San Marcos, who was not on the discovery team. "To find an unlooted tomb like this one is a big deal."