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Volume 155, Number 16 (April 17, 1999)

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Inca mummies emerge from deep freeze

Investigators found the mummified bodies of three children, apparently sacrificed 500 years ago in an Inca ritual, in burials at the top of a South American volcano.

References:

1999. Three frozen Inca mummies found on peak in Argentina. National Geographic Society Press Release. April.

Sources:

Johan Reinhard
Mountain Institute
P.O. Box 907
Main Street
Franklin, WV 26807

From Science News, Vol. 155, No. 16, April 17, 1999, p. 244. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.

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