Oscar Nilsson spent 400 hours on his 3D reconstruction of the Ice Maiden, a 500-year-old mummy of a young Inca Woman found in the Peruvian Andes 28 years ago. Dagmara Socha Sign up for CNN’s ...

Oscar Nilsson spent 400 hours on his 3D reconstruction of the Ice Maiden, a 500-year-old mummy of a young Inca Woman found in the Peruvian Andes 28 years ago. Dagmara Socha Sign up for CNN’s ...

Here was a young victim of the mysterious Inca ritual known as capacocha. ( Read more on the discovery of the Ice Maiden of Ampato from our June 1996 issue of National Geographic.

The discovery of an Inca mummy on the Quehuar Volcano, located in the Salta region of Argentina in 1975, was a significant archaeological finding that allowed for a deeper understanding of Inca ritual ...

The reconstruction, unveiled on October 24, is part of an exhibition at the Andean Sanctuaries Museum in Peru called “Capacocha, following the Inca Divinities.” ...

It’s now on display as part of a temporary exhibition at the museum, where the mummy is also housed. ... Archaeologists think the girl was sacrificed during an Inca ritual called capacocha.

The mummy is of a teenage girl ritually sacrificed in the Inca empire over 500 years ago. It was discovered in 1995 near the snow-capped Ampato volcano at an altitude of over 6,000m (19,685ft).

Photo Shows Teen Mummy Preserved During Incan Empire 500 ... agreed the three did not die accidentally but were commissioned as a central and probably defining element of a capacocha ritual, ...

In 1985, a group of mountaineers discovered his well-preserved mummy more than 17,000 feet up at the edge of the Aconcagua Mountain in Mendoza, Argentina. It was wrapped in different textiles and ...

This new understanding challenges everything that was known about Capacocha, one of the most important ceremonies of the Tawantinsuyu, or Inca Empire, in which children and adolescents were offered as ...