The Andes mountain range ... referred to the discovery as "the best preserved of any mummy I've seen." Recalling the excavation in the Smithsonian Channel documentary, Mummies Alive: The Inca ...

With slit throats and broken skulls, these individuals may have been victims of ritual sacrifice, not unlike the mummies of the high Andes.

Over the years, some 115 of these sacrificial mummies have been found in the high Andes. In 1995, Dr. Johan Reinhard stumbled upon the body of a young girl, barely into her teens, on top of Mount ...