New CT scans reveal the last moments of the Inca children who were sacrificed and mummified about 500 years ago.
A new bioarchaeological study has identified what researchers describe as the first known case of deliberate mummification applied to a child sacrificed during the Inca capacocha ritual. The finding ...
THE grizzly final moments of a famous group of child “ice mummies” has been revealed. Experts have been puzzled for decades ...
In 1995, explorer Johan Reinhard made a startling discovery on the frigid peaks of the Andes. In a crater near the summit of Ampato, a dormant Peruvian volcano, lay a frozen bundle of cloth roughly ...
LIMA, Peru — Utility workers excavating trenches to expand the network of natural gas pipelines in Peru’s capital have uncovered a pre-Inca mummy approximately 1,000 years old, barely half a meter (20 ...