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In September 1995, during an ascent of Mt. Ampato (20,700 ft; 6,300 m), Johan Reinhard and Miguel Zárate found a bundle in the crater that had fallen from an Inca site on the summit due to recent ice melt and erosion from a volcano eruption. [1] To their astonishment, the bundle turned out to contain the frozen body of a young girl.
La doncella ("The maiden"), the oldest of the three mummies of Inca children discovered in 1999 near Llullaillaco. The Children of Llullaillaco [1] (Spanish: [(ɟ)ʝuʝajˈʝako]), also known as the Mummies of Llullaillaco, are three Inca child mummies discovered on 16 March 1999 by Johan Reinhard and his archaeological team near the summit of Llullaillaco, a 6,739 m (22,110 ft) stratovolcano ...
In 1999, near Llullaillaco's 6,739 m (22,110 ft) summit, an Argentine-Peruvian expedition found the perfectly preserved bodies of three Inca children, sacrificed approximately 500 years earlier, [15] including a 15-year-old girl, nicknamed "La doncella" (the maiden), a seven-year-old boy, and a six-year-old girl, nicknamed "La niña del rayo ...
The possible living face of Peru’s most famous mummy, a teenage Inca girl sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago atop the Andes, was unveiled Tuesday. Produced by a team of Polish and ...
Police have reportedly opened a murder investigation after the body of a missing 11-year-old girl was found in the woods of northern France. On Saturday, Feb. 8, police in the town of Epinay-sur ...
The body of a 13-year-old girl was found on a Powell trail the afternoon of Oct. 22 and a 15-year-old boy was arrested by the Knox County Sheriff's Office.
For six years, Ceruti and others at UCASAL scientifically studied the mummified bodies of the three Inca children of Llullaillaco in an international collaboration. They were able to determine the general lifestyle, ages, and causes of death of the children. The youngest, a girl, died at age six of pulmonary edema as a result of the high ...
17-Year-Old Girl Who Vanished After Family Argument Is Found Dead from Suicide, Officials Say. David Chiu. January 7, 2025 at 11:21 AM.