The Sarcophagi of Karajía , or Carajía , are a set of sarcophagi or coffins according to the funerary tradition of the Chachapoyas, up to 2.50 m high with human shapes. They were found in the Karajía ravine in the Luya district of the Amazonas Department, Peru) in 1985 by the Peruvian archaeologist Federico Kauffmann Doig thanks to references provided by Carlos Torres Mas.
The custom of the Chachapoyas of using sarcophagi to bury their dead, coffins whose shape follows the outline of the human figure, was mentioned in the Peruvian Mercurio in 1791. This caught the attention of Louis Langlois (1939) and the archaeologists Henry and Paule.
