配達用バッグから６００～８００年前のミイラ発見　ペルー

【プノ（ペルー）ＡＦＰ＝時事】ペルー警察は、元食品宅配業の男（２６）が所持していた配達用バッグから６００～８００年前のミイラが見つかり、押収したと発表した。（写真はペルー・プノで配達用バッグから発見されたミイラを調べる警察と地元の当局者。プノＴＶ提供）
　先月２５日、南部プノの公園をパトロール中に押収した。ミイラは胎児のような姿勢で包帯を巻かれていた。
　男は、ミイラは３０年ほど前に父親が持ち帰ったもので、販売目的ではなく友人に見せるために持ち歩いていたと供述している。
　男はミイラを「フアニータ」と呼んでおり、「心のガールフレンドのようなものだ」と地元メディアに語っている。また、「彼女と部屋で一緒に寝ている。私が面倒を見ている」と語る動画がソーシャルメディアに拡散した。
　文化省は、文化財保護のためにミイラを押収したとしている。同省の専門家は、ミイラはスペイン人による征服以前のもので、４５歳以上の「男性」だと明言している。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2023/03/01-15:32）

Police in Peru have seized a mummified human, between 600 and 800 years old, from a former food delivery man who claimed to have had it at his home for three decades.
The mummy was in the isothermal bag the man had once used to deliver food to people's homes.
The man, 26-year-old Julio Cesar Bermejo, will remain in detention while investigators look into the case, a government official told AFP on Tuesday.
Bermejo told local media the mummy, who he called Juanita, was 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 that went viral on social media.
Bermejo said his father brought the mummy home almost 30 years ago.
According to the Ministry of Culture, the pre-Hispanic relic was a mummified adult male individual, presumably from the eastern area of Puno, a region in the Peruvian Andes some 1,300 kilometers (more than 800 miles) southeast of Lima.
It's not a Juanita, it's a Juan, a specialist at the ministry affirmed, adding the mummy was of a man at least 45 years old.
The body was wrapped in bandages in the fetal position.
Police found the remains in Bermejo's bag on Saturday while patrolling a park in the city of Puno, where he had been hanging out with friends.
He denied he was trying to sell the mummy and said he was carrying it around because my friends wanted to see it.
The culture ministry said it had taken possession of the mummified remains with the aim of protecting and preserving this heritage.
Peru is rich in archaeological sites and objects. Its most visited tourist destination is the Inca citadel of Machu Picchu, built in the 15th century near Cusco.