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 ...

“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 ...

Dead for 500 years, this Inca sacrificial mummy found on Chile's El Plomo Peak ... The discovery by Johan Reinhard of "Juanita," an Inca ice maiden found atop Mount Ampato in 1995, is the most ...

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 ...