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 ...

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 ...

Salta, Argentina - May 28, 2020 It has been 25 years since the discovery of the Children of Llullaillaco -also known as the ...

The mummy, known as "Juanita" or the "Inca Ice Maiden", was an Inca girl who is thought to have been sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago. Scientists worked with a specialist in facial ...

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 ...

That's before westerners reached Peru, and even before the Inca civilization ... so you need to be very lucky to find a mummy intact like this," she said. "We can make a lot of investigation ...

Archeologists found 14 previously undiscovered pre-Incan mummies in a tomb in Cajamarquilla, Peru. The mummies, which include the bodies of six children, are likely the remains of people ...

“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 ...

Archaeologists at a funerary structure east of Lima have filmed this footage of a mummy, which could be up to 1,200 years old. Watch this video to see the underground structure where the mummy was ...

Since the discovery, the Inca child has been kept at the Scientific ... “Of those remains, only one sacred mummy was restituted so far. It was on October 21, 2019, in Catamarca, to the community ...