The girl was only 13 years old when she was sacrificed to the gods but had been frozen in time for hundreds of years when a ...

Figure 1: Map of northern Chile, showing locations of study fields from which mummy bones and blood samples of contemporary Andean people were collected (boxed area, right, enlarged at left).

The mummy is kept in a chamber that pumps chilled ... sacrificial victims of the former Inca Empire, which ran along the Andes present-day northern Argentina to Peru. Several Indian groups waged ...

Johan Reinhard stumbled upon the body of a young girl, barely into her teens, on top of Mount Ampato in the Peruvian Andes. Named "Juanita," she is the best-preserved Incan mummy ever discovered.