The girl was only 13 years old when she was sacrificed to the gods but had been frozen in time for hundreds of years when a ...

There’s a common occurrence at the San Bernardo municipal cemetery, the burial site for a small Colombian town high up in the Andes Mountains ... s Museum of Mummies guide, tells Agence France ...

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 ...

Figure 1: Map of northern Chile, showing locations of study fields from which mummy bones and blood samples of contemporary Andean people were collected (boxed area, right, enlarged at left).

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 ...

The authors suggest that the HTLV-1 provirus of these mummies might be the aboriginal HTLV-1 prevailing among Mongoloid populations in Asia and the Andes over 1,500 years ago. The picture shows ...

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