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The arrested man said his father brought the mummy home almost 30 years ago. (Representational)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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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. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The mummy was in the isothermal bag the man had once used to deliver food to people’s homes. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Bermejo told local media the mummy, who he called “Juanita,” was “like my spiritual girlfriend.”\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

“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.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Bermejo said his father brought the mummy home almost 30 years ago.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

“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.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

The body was wrapped in bandages in the fetal position.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

He denied he was trying to sell the mummy and said he was carrying it around because “my friends wanted to see it.”\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

The culture ministry said it had taken possession of the mummified remains “with the aim of protecting and preserving this heritage.”\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

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.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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