The Independent on MSN5mon
Sacrificed ‘frozen’ Inca child in Chile did not die peacefully as previously thought, study finds
An Incan child from Chile’s Cerro El Plomo ritually sacrificed over 500 years ago and well preserved as a frozen mummy did ...
PBS7y
The High Mummies
The first frozen high mountain Inca human sacrifice was ... which slowly melted away the 500 years of accumulated ice and snow encasing the mummy. A brightly-colored burial tapestry, or "aksu ...
The Scientist9y
Incan Mummy Genome Sequenced
“It’s only one individual, but it’s a specific sub-lineage in a restricted geographic area,” Lars Fehren-Schmitz, a geneticist and anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was ...