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Momia Juanita (Spanish for "Mummy Juanita"), also known as the Lady of Ampato, is the well-preserved frozen body of a girl from the Inca Empire who was killed as a human sacrifice to the Inca gods sometime between 1440 and 1480, when she was approximately 12–15 years old. [1]
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 ...
Archaeologists have reconstructed the face of Juanita, a young Inca woman who was sacrificed and buried in the peaks of the Andes 500 years ago. A young woman was sacrificed and frozen for 500 ...
"Love Your Mummy", Constanza Ceruti and Johan Reinhard discover Incan mummies, National Geographic María Constanza Ceruti (born 11 January 1973 in Buenos Aires, Argentina ) is an Argentine anthropologist and mountaineer , who has done more than 80 field surveys, most of them as part of National Geographic teams in Andean regions of Argentina ...
The mummy was brought to the attention of Grete Mostny at the Chilean National Museum of Natural History; she later proved instrumental in the museum's acquisition of the specimen. [4] The Plomo Mummy was the first notable frozen mummy discovery of high-altitude Capacocha human sacrifice by the Incas, [5] [6] a practice called qhapaq hucha.
The area that is now Lima has been occupied for more than 10,000 years by pre-Inca cultures, then the Inca Empire itself and then t Workers uncover eight mummies and pre-Inca objects while ...
More than 900 years ago, 22 people were wrapped in fabric and buried in Peru. Now, archaeologists have discovered their mummies — and the treasures they took with them to the grave.
The mummies that have been discovered are those of sacrificed individuals and that of the Inca elite. As well as leaving clues behind that give insight into the Inca culture, the mummies discovered were in excellent condition. [1] The preservation of these mummies was so good, that archaeologists were able to determine the sex by looking at ...