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24HourForums.com > The Top 10 Supported Forums > Aethelred's History Chamber > mummified Inca girl goes on display |
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Lady Cop Pioneer100© Member  BAH HUMBUG
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it seems that she was a human sacrifice, and her state of preservation is perfect.   Mummified maiden wows crowds The 500-year-old mummified remains of an Inca girl go on display for the first time since being found in Argentina.
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24HourNut Administrator  Body pillows rock!
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I wonder how the three died and what lead up to it.
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UsedToRide Original500© Member  ^^^That is LOVE!!^^^
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WOW. What little detail you can see from the picture, it doesn't look like a mummy, it looks like a young girl sitting there. Bizarre. I bet they will study the customs then and answer Franks wonderings. That is COOL, LC.
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24HourNut Administrator Body pillows rock!
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In the actual article you can click the pic for a larger view, in case you weren't aware. Not super close or anything, but better ...
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UsedToRide Original500© Member ^^^That is LOVE!!^^^
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I wasn't aware, Frank. Thanks. I did this and it still only looks like a kid sitting there. Not someone who has been dead for 5 centuries. Is her hair braided or am I seeing things?
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24HourNut Administrator Body pillows rock!
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I thought it looked finely braided too but I wasn't sure thinking time and dead hair can take on texture, who knows ...
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24HourNut Administrator Body pillows rock!
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I get creeped out a little with stuff like this.
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UsedToRide Original500© Member ^^^That is LOVE!!^^^
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24HourNut wrote: I get creeped out a little with stuff like this. Really?? Why? I find it fascinating! Do you get squeamish around coffins, too, Frank? 
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Lady Cop Pioneer100© Member BAH HUMBUG
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'Perfect' mummies found high in Andes  The face of this mummy appears slightly damaged by lightning  The "perfect", mummified remains of two girls and a boy have been found on top of a volcano in the Andes. The children were probably sacrificed by Incas 500 years ago, researchers said. The remains were discovered at a height of 6,700 metres (22,000 ft) on Mount Llullaillaco, a mountain in northwest Argentina near the border with Chile. Tom Carver reports: "Highest dig in the world""They appear the best preserved of any mummy I've seen," said archaeologist Dr Johan Reinhard, who helped lead the team that found the mummies. "The arms looked perfect, even down to visible hairs." Dr Reinhard said the bodies may have been frozen since they were left on the mountain by Incas. Even though they are buried under about 1.5 metres (5 ft) of rock and earth, their internal organs look perfect on a CT scan - as if they had died only recently.  A statuette of a llama found with the childrenHow these children died has yet to be established. Inca gods Their burial platform carried other sacrifices, apparently to Inca gods. These included 35 gold, silver and shell statues, pottery containing food, and articles of clothing including moccasins. All are in excellent condition. James Reynolds: "It should be possible to see what they ate for their last meal""The undamaged female has a beautiful, yellow, geometrically-designed cover laid over her outer mantle," said Dr Reinhard, a senior research fellow at the Mountain Institute in West Virginia. US, Argentine and Peruvian scientists worked together on the expedition, organised by National Geographic. Dr Reinhard, who has found several other mummies, said his team had battled snow and high winds to reach the site. "At one point we had to lower one of our workers into the pit by his ankles so he could pull the mummy out with his hands," he said. The Inca empire once stretched 4,000 kilometres (2,500 miles) from present day Colombia to central Chile. It collapsed in 1532 with the Spanish conquest.
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24HourNut Administrator Body pillows rock!
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UsedToRide wrote: 24HourNut wrote:I get creeped out a little with stuff like this. Not creeped out as in scared or squeamish, just more "deep" and sad I guess, wondering if that life was for nothing and if it just totally gone and meant as much as a deal squirrel.
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Lady Cop Pioneer100© Member BAH HUMBUG
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astounding! in the article above, even the organs are perfect and they surmise the last meal could be determined!!
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AuldFartte Original500© Member  Make the Scary Palin Go Away!!
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I think things like this are fascinating, but highly disrespectful of the dead and of their culture. But I suppose it's the only way to learn more about our ancestors.
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Lady Cop Pioneer100© Member BAH HUMBUG
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in a way, i think of it as the girl living on forever in a way she never would have. similar to the mummies of ancient egypt. people will see her and marvel and feel sympathy for her.
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librtyhead Original500© Member 
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What was her last meal.........maybe I should read this thing.......
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Lady Cop Pioneer100© Member BAH HUMBUG
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possible manner of death Frank. "La Doncella" died on a volcano, at an elevation of 22,080 feet, garlanded with bone and metal jewelry. Scientists believe the so-called Children of Llullaillaco were sacrificed more than 500 years ago in a ceremony marking the annual corn harvest. Dressed in fine clothes and given corn alcohol to put them to sleep, the victims were then left to die at an elevation of 22,080 feet.
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