Infants, children and adults of both sexes were mummified ... tradition of preserving the dead was still intact. Most Inca mummies were arranged in the familiar fetal position and were either ...

Infants, children and adults of both sexes were mummified ... tradition of preserving the dead was still intact. Most Inca mummies were arranged in the familiar fetal position and were wrapped ...

The mummy is kept in a chamber that pumps chilled ... several months in 1999 to retrieve the mummified remains of young Inca children.

Ceruti’s membership was well-earned, following what was perhaps her most notable co-discovery: the 1999 excavation of three exquisitely preserved Inca mummies, known as the Children of Llullaillaco.

The researchers examined around 100 mummies from coastal Peru’s Chancay culture – a civilization that flourished before the Inca empire and the arrival of Europeans. All the individuals had ...