Researchers reconstruct the face of a teenage mummy believed to have been sacrificed in an Inca ritual more than 500 years ago

Wed, 10/25/2023 - 22:17

A close-up of Juanita's reconstructed face. — The reconstruction of the face of a young woman who was found frozen and mummified near the summit of Mount Ampato in the Peruvian Andes after being sacrificed in a ritual more than 500 years ago, in Arequipa, Peru.
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Researchers recreated the face of an Inca girl who was believed to have been sacrificed atop a volcano more than 500 years ago.
The Inca Ice Maiden is Peru's most famous mummy, discovered in 1995 almost completely preserved.
A team of scientists worked with a Swedish sculptor to recreate her likeness.

Archeologists have recreated the possible face of Peru's famous mummy — a teenage girl believed to have been sacrificed in an Inca ritual to the gods more than 500 years ago in the Andes.