The 15 year old girl, "La Doncella", maiden in Spanish ... worked during several months in 1999 to retrieve the mummified remains of young Inca children.
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.
Evidence of Inca camp sites atop Ampato include remains ... This time, several thousand feet below the summit, they found two more mummy children, a girl and a boy. It is believed these may ...
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 ...
The mummified remains of a man bound in the fetal ... That's before westerners reached Peru, and even before the Inca civilization. This is an "exciting" discovery because the body is in "such ...
The story of Juanita the Ice Maiden; one of the most famous mummies in the world who was offered up as an Inca child sacrifice. Show more In part 3 of this 4-part series, we find out about Juanita ...