Most Inca mummies were arranged in the familiar fetal position and were either wrapped in leather or cloth, or placed in baskets or under huge ceramic jars. These "mummy bundles" were often ...

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 ...

But it's estimated that, over a 3000-year period, more than 70 million mummies were made in Egypt. Early South American and Inca mummies While the ancient Egyptians may be the best-known mummy ...

Walking behind the priest in a small procession, the bearers carry the saint for all in the plaza to see, just as the Inca once shouldered the mummies of their revered kings. The names of those ...

“La Doncella” died on a volcano, at an elevation of 22,080 feet Hundreds flocked this week to a museum in the north of Argentina to admire a well-preserved mummy of an Inca maiden that is on ...