Police Col. Adolfo Cardenas said a Peruvian woman tried to send the human remains from a post office in the town of Desaguadero along the Peruvian border.

The destination was in the French city of Compiegne. The mummy was discovered in a routine check of the package. Cardenas said he doesn't know how old the mummy is, but says it was well-preserved and may have been from the Inca culture.