Footage shows the macabre discovery, as the BBC's Rebecca Morelle explains Tests on three mummies found in Argentina have shed new light on the Inca practice of child sacrifice. Scientists have ...

Previgliano, a native of Argentina, had used CT scans only ... Gonzalez Toledo also examined other mummies, including a child encased in clay, but these days, he focuses on the living with ...

Three Inca mummies found near the lofty summit of in Volcán Llullaillaco Argentina were so well preserved ... This is a person; this is a child. And this data that we've generated in our studies ...

Three child mummies were discovered on the summit of the Llullaillaco volcano located on the Argentina-Chile border. The summit is 22,100 feet (6,739 meters) above sea level, where temperatures ...

Argentina, and Chile. The child mummy dates back to this period of southward expansion; it was found at the southernmost edge of the Inca Empire. The ritual sacrifice of children in honor of the ...

“It's one of the interesting ways that mummies can still ... to Inca gods atop Argentina in 1999. Photograph by JOHAN REINHARD, National Geographic The three child mummies—a 13-year-old ...

Tests on three mummies found in Argentina have shed new light on the Inca practice of child sacrifice. Scientists have revealed that drugs and alcohol played a key part in the months and weeks ...