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 ...

For researchers at the Penn Museum, a 500-year-old mummy that still has perfectly preserved teeth and intact skin remains a ...

Dead for 500 years, this Inca sacrificial mummy found on Chile's El Plomo Peak has opened the door to further inquiry into the strange and mysterious ritual life of the Inca. There may be hundreds ...

Preserving a frozen mummy is no easy task ... he knew the potential importance of his find - a perfectly preserved 500-year old Incan human sacrifice. Standing at over 20,000 feet, and pondering ...

Descended in part from Inca colonists sent here more than 500 years ago, the inhabitants of Taquile keep the old ways ... as the Inca once shouldered the mummies of their revered kings.

Hundreds flocked this week to a museum in the north of Argentina to admire a well-preserved mummy of an Inca ... years ago was sacrificed and froze to death in the Andes. The 15 year old girl ...

Authorities in the Argentine province of Mendoza announced that the mummified remains of an 8-year-old Inca boy will ... in the area for almost 500 years and that the Inca civilizations were ...