{"id":706305,"date":"2021-10-27T08:37:35","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T12:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=706305"},"modified":"2021-10-27T08:37:35","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T12:37:35","slug":"red-paint-on-1000-year-old-gold-mask-from-peru-contains-human-blood-proteins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=706305","title":{"rendered":"Red paint on 1,000-year-old gold mask from Peru contains human blood proteins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago, archeologists excavated the tomb of an elite 40-50-year-old man from the Sic\u00e1n culture of Peru, a society that predated the Incas. The man&#8217;s seated, upside-down skeleton was painted bright red, as was the gold mask covering his detached skull. Now, researchers reporting in ACS&#8217; Journal of Proteome Research have analyzed the paint, finding that, in addition to a red pigment, it contains human blood and bird egg proteins.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-10-red-year-old-gold-mask-peru.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Red paint on 1,000-year-old gold mask from Peru contains human blood proteins<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thirty years ago, archeologists excavated the tomb of an elite 40-50-year-old man from the Sic\u00e1n culture of Peru, a society that predated the Incas. The man&#8217;s seated, upside-down skeleton was&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=706305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=706305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=706305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=706305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}