Over the years, some 115 of these sacrificial mummies have been found in the high Andes. In 1995, Dr. Johan Reinhard stumbled upon the body of a young girl, barely into her teens, on top of Mount ...

which ran along the Andes present-day northern Argentina to Peru. Several Indian groups waged a losing campaign to prevent the remains from going on display, arguing that the mummies should be ...

With slit throats and broken skulls, these individuals may have been victims of ritual sacrifice, not unlike the mummies of the high Andes.