Trujillo38 bodies lay undisturbed for 600 years.

Almost every other known Chimú burial was looted, erasing the arrangement archaeologists need to read.

The site near Chan Chan holds metal weapons alongside the dead of the pre-Incan Chimú civilization.

Researchers have not yet said what the intact layout reveals about Chimú burial ritual.

How each outlet framed it
BBC
emphasizes rarity of intact site — colonial-era looting destroyed previous finds, making 600-year preservation archaeologically rare

Sources: BBC