Climate Change May Have Led to Earliest South American Mummies

posted on October 26th, 2012 in Archaeology, Chile, Peru, Peruvian Mummies

A 7,000-year-old mummy from the Chinchorro culture, along the border of Chile and Peru, whose skin, hair and clothing still remain (photos: National Geographic)

Changing Climate May Have Led To Earliest Mummies

NPR

August 15, 2012

A couple of thousand years before the Egyptians preserved some of their dead, a much simpler society made the first known mummies.

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Climate Change Affecting Andes Mountain Villages in Peru

posted on February 28th, 2010 in Andes Mountains, Environment, Peru, Peruvian Mummies

The Bolivian ski resort of Chacaltaya, stranded once its 18,000-year-old glacier disappeared in 2009

The Bolivian ski resort of Chacaltaya, stranded like a beached whale once its 18,000-year-old glacier disappeared permanently in 2009

(Note: Since the early 20th century, glaciers around the world have been retreating, presumably as a result of humans burning greater and greater quantities of oil and coal, rampant deforestation, and the raising of livestock, which create greenhouse gases that absorb more sunlight and thus heat the atmosphere. Mt Kilamanjaro’s glacier in Tanzania, for example, which has been around for 12,000 years, is expected to completely disappear by 2020… (more…)

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Ancient Wari Mummies Discovered in Peru, Alongside Child Sacrifices

posted on September 23rd, 2008 in Archaeology, Peru, Peruvian Mummies, Recent Discoveries

Ancient Wari Mummy Discovered in Peru

The funerary mask of a Wari woman who died and was buried some 1300 years ago in the area of Lima, Peru

Oh mummy! Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Tribe Members Sacrificed 1,300 Years Ago

The Daily Mail

August 27, 2008

Archaeologists working at an ancient Peruvian burial site have unearthed the first intact ruins belonging to a tribe which existed centuries before the mighty Incas…

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Evidence that Incas Fattened up their Children Before Sacrificing Them

posted on July 28th, 2008 in Andes Mountains, Archaeology, Incas, Peru, Peruvian Mummies, Recent Discoveries

The Llullaillaco Inca Ice Maiden with Forensic Scientists

(Above: Scientists examine a 15-year-old girl who lived in the Inca Empire, then was sacrificed and remained frozen for 500 years)

Incas fattened up their children before sacrifice on the volcano

The Times

October 2, 2007

Grim evidence of how the Incas “fattened up” children before sacrificing them to their gods has emerged from a new analysis of hair from two 500-year-old mummies preserved near the summit of a volcano…

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Inca Girl, Frozen for 500 Years, Now On Display

posted on July 25th, 2008 in Andes Mountains, Archaeology, Incas, Peru, Peruvian Mummies, Recent Discoveries

Llullaillaco Maiden Inca Ice Mummy

(Above: The 15-year-old “Llullaillaco Maiden” was sacrificed along with two other children on top of Mt. Llullaillco, in northern Argentina, at 22,000 feet)

In Argentina, A Museum Unveils A Long-Frozen Maiden

September 11, 2007

NYT

SALTA, Argentina — The maiden, the boy, the girl of lightning: they were three Inca children, entombed on a bleak and frigid mountaintop 500 years ago as a religious sacrifice…

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Temple of Ancient Idols and Mummies Discovered in Peru

posted on July 24th, 2008 in Andes Mountains, Archaeology, Cuzco: Information about the former Inca capital, Incas, Peru, Peruvian Mummies, Recent Discoveries

Sacsayhuaman (Saqsaywaman) Inca Ruins, Peru

(Above: The Inca ruins of Sacsayhuaman (also Saqsaywaman) lie just above the city of Cuzco, Peru, at an elevation of nearly 12,000 feet)

Ancient Temple Discovered Among Inca Ruins

National Geographic News

March 31, 2008

A temple thought to have once housed idols and mummies has been unearthed near an ancient Inca site in Cusco, Peru…

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