Dead for 500 years, this Inca sacrificial mummy found on Chile's El Plomo Peak has opened the door to further inquiry into the strange and mysterious ritual life of the Inca. There may be hundreds ...

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 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 ...

Among the most fascinating mummies discovered outside of Egypt is a tattooed ice mummy found at Ukok Plateau near the border ...

Walking behind the priest in a small procession, the bearers carry the saint for all in the plaza to see, just as the Inca once shouldered the mummies of their revered kings. The names of those ...

“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 ...

Archaeologists at a funerary structure east of Lima have filmed this footage of a mummy, which could be up to 1,200 years old. Watch this video to see the underground structure where the mummy was ...

Archaeologists at a funerary structure east of Lima have filmed this footage of a mummy, which could be up to 1,200 years old. Watch this video to see the underground structure where the mummy was ...