WebIn 1995, the body of an almost entirely frozen young Inca girl, later named Mummy Juanita, was discovered on Mount Ampato. Two more ice-preserved mummies, one girl and one … WebOct 1, 2007 · Incan children as young as 6 were “fattened up” prior to their sacrificial deaths, a new study shows. Researchers made the startling discovery by sampling the hair of …

In Argentina, a Museum Unveils a Long-Frozen Maiden

WebSep 11, 2007 · The mummy of an ancient Inca girl sits literally frozen in sleep at a museum in Argentina. The mummy, called La Doncella or The Maiden, is that of a teenage girl who … WebNov 17, 2015 · In 1985, a frozen and half buried mummy of a young boy was recovered from the mountain of Aconcagua in Argentina. Now, a team of scientists have managed to extract and sequence his mitochondrial DNA from a biopsy of the mummy’s lungs. darksiders artifact locations

La Doncella or The Maiden is a mummy of an Inca girl Frozen for …

WebOct 16, 2007 · Four recently discovered frozen child mummies from two of the highest peaks in the south central Andes now yield tantalizing evidence of the preparatory stages … Archaeologists analyzed hair samples from the frozen mummies of the three children, who were discovered in 1999, entombed within a shrine near the 22,100-foot (6,739 meters) summit of the Argentinian volcano Llullaillaco. The samples revealed that all three children consistently consumed coca leaves (from which … See more Three Incan children who were sacrificed 500 years ago were regularly given drugs and alcohol in their final months to make them more compliant … See more \"[The Maiden] became somebody other than who she was before,\" said study lead author Andrew Wilson, an archaeologist at the University of … See more In the new study, the scientists analyzed the mummies' hair for cocaine (a major alkaloid of coca leaves) and its metabolite benzoylecgonine, as well as cocaethylene, which forms when … See more In a 2007 study, Wilson and his colleagues analyzed the child mummies' hair to understand how their diets changed over time. They found that the children came from a peasant background, as their diet consisted mainly of … See more WebJul 29, 2013 · Inca Child Sacrifice Victims Were Drugged Tests revealed that this sacrificed 13-year-old used coca at a high level during the last year of her life, but her alcohol use … darksiders angel of death