Investigators say bones found in the backyard of a Florida home are remains of members of the Inca civilization.

The two skulls – which were uncovered last January while construction workers were installing a poll in the backyard – date as far back as 1200 A.D., ABC news reported.

Adding to the mystery, the skulls were found with shards of pottery, textiles, and a scrap of newspaper from 1978.

Florida authorities enlisted the help of specialists from Yale and the University of Central Florida to try and trace the origins of the skulls.

“Back in the 1930s or 1940s, people would go on vacation and buy things like that, and maybe they buried them when they didn’t want them anymore. Another possibility is that it used to be a migrant farm worker camp, and some cultures will bring part of their heritage with them when they leave. It could be that they were moving on and decided to bury it there,” medical examiner Jan Garavaglia said to ABC news.

“The mystery is how they ended up there,” she said

“We don’t have any way of finding out.”
 

 

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