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Juanita and the Inca Mummies
It was cold, very cold, when Juanita climbed Mount Ampato and said goodbye to the world. Wrapped in a shawl of finely woven alpaca wool, she remained on that volcanic peak in the Andes for five centuries. And she would have rested undisturbed for many more years, if the hot ash of a nearby volcano had not melted her grave away.
Juanita, a 12- to14-year-old girl, had been the victim of the capa cocha, the Inca’s child sacrifice ceremony to mountain gods. The (...)