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 first frozen high mountain Inca human sacrifice was found atop a peak in Chile in 1954. "La Momia del Cerro El Plomo," the Mummy of El Plomo Peak became its name, and until Juanita ...

The story of Juanita the Ice Maiden; one of the most famous mummies in the world who was offered up as an Inca child ...

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 ...

The story goes that both researchers climbed the Llullaillaco volcano - located in the province of Salta - and found three Inca mummies in an exceptional state of preservation. The bodies ...