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 ...

A mummy, to put it bluntly, is an old dead body. But unlike a skeleton or a fossil, a mummy still retains some of the soft tissue it had when it was alive—most often skin, but sometimes organs ...

Johan Reinhard stumbled upon the body of a young girl, barely into her teens, on top of Mount Ampato in the Peruvian Andes. Named "Juanita," she is the best-preserved Incan mummy ever discovered.

Police have turned over the mummy to Peru's Ministry of Culture, according to the BBC. Meanwhile, Bermejo is being detained while officials investigate the case, per the report. His two friends ...