He was found frozen and half-covered in soil on the rocky slopes of the highest mountain in the Americas but now the identity of the Inca child mummy has been partially revealed. A team of forensic ...

Scientists from the Department of Forensic Medicine at the University of Copenhagen have examined the bodies of three 500-year-old Inca children along with scientists from Bradford University in ...

A new analysis of three immaculately-preserved 500 year-old mummies found in 1999 atop a 22,000 foot volcano in South America reveals that Inca children were given increasing amounts of coca leaf and ...

The face of Peru’s most famous mummy has been reconstructed nearly 30 years after it was found. The mummy is of a teenage girl ritually sacrificed in the Inca empire over 500 years ago. It was ...

Inca children used for human sacrifices were fed drugs and alcohol for a year before their deaths, analysis of 500-year-old mummies have shown. Three child mummies were found near the summit of Volcan ...

Scientists examine La Doncella, the frozen mummy of a 13-year-old girl found in Argentina. The Inca girl was drugged and left on a mountain top to succumb to the cold, a study has revealed. (Photo: ...