Incas decorated 100 guinea pigs in colourful earrings and necklaces made of string before ritually SACRIFICING ... Along with the string decorations some of the guinea pigs were wrapped in rugs ...

Three Incan mummies sacrificed 500 years ago were regularly given drugs and alcohol before their death, particularly the eldest child called the Maiden (shown here), to make them more compliant ...

100 Ritually Sacrificed Inca Guinea Pigs Dressed up in Necklaces and Earrings Discovered Published Apr 11, 2019 at 6:01 AM EDT Updated Apr 11, 2019 at 8:15 AM EDT One of the guinea pigs found at ...

Her frozen mummified remains were discovered in 1995 by archaeologists, who named her the "Inca Ice Maiden" and "Juanita." However, no one knew what the mysterious girl looked like — until now.

Incan children as young as 6 were “fattened up” prior to their sacrificial deaths, a new study shows. Researchers made the startling discovery by sampling the hair of frozen child mummies ...

The mummy of an Incan child who was sacrificed to the gods more than 500 years ago belonged to a previously unknown offshoot of an ancient Native American lineage, new research finds. The child, a ...

The face of Peru's most famous mummy, a teen Incan girl sacrificed in the Andes snow more than 500 years ago, was reconstructed in a bust unveiled Tuesday.

Ancient Incan mummy had lung infection, according to novel proteomics analysis. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2012 / 07 / 120725200302.htm ...

The researchers found a clear improvement in cranial surgery on the coastal regions and the Andean highlands of Peru, which led to a high survival rate in the 15th- and 16th-century Inca empire.