{"id":121490,"date":"2023-11-19T23:59:25","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T23:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/?p=121490"},"modified":"2023-11-19T23:59:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-19T23:59:25","slug":"archaeologists-taken-aback-by-grim-death-of-perfectly-preserved-inca-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottontailsonline.com\/world-news\/archaeologists-taken-aback-by-grim-death-of-perfectly-preserved-inca-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists taken aback by grim death of perfectly preserved Inca woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inca Maiden: Expert on discovery of mummy that felt ‘so alive’<\/h3>\n

South America is filled with ancient spaces, a land of stories, mythology, and countless lost civilisations.<\/p>\n

Many of the ancient people who once called the continent home lived in and around the great Andes mountain range.<\/p>\n

Stretching along South America’s western side, the Andes are one the world’s largest mountain ranges and span a whopping seven countries.<\/p>\n

Peru, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and Venezuela all have at least a part of their land on the gargantuan natural ridge, many of these countries once having housed a lost civilisation known as the Inca.<\/p>\n

And it is the Inca who, growing out of the Peruvian highlands in the early 13th century, are among the most studied peoples \u2014 and for good reason.<\/p>\n

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Traces of the Inca in the mountains have largely disappeared, but a team of researchers previously hoping to find at least some evidence got more than they bargained for.<\/p>\n

Climbing Argentina’s portion of the Andes before scaling the world’s tallest active volcano, the team, led by Dr Johan Reinhard, came across the almost perfectly preserved remains of a 13-year-old girl.<\/p>\n

Initially fearing that the girl had frozen in the preceding weeks or months, the tell-tale signs that this wasn’t any old body quickly made itself clear.<\/p>\n

She was tightly wrapped in a blanket traditionally associated with the Inca and was accompanied by a girl and a boy around four and five years old.<\/p>\n

When the remains were taken away for analysis, the results showed that the group were some 500 years old, placing them in history as part of the Inca.<\/p>\n

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