mercredi 7 août 2013
Photo of the “Llullaillaco Maiden”, a 15 year old girl sacrificed
during the Inca Empire for both purposes of religious rite and social
control. She was chosen a year prior to her death, fed a ritualistic
diet for an approximate twelve months to make her gain weight, then was
drugged and left on the shrine at Volcano Llullaillaco, where she was
left to die of exposure. For five hundred years, her body had been
preserved at 82 ft. She is considered to be the best preserved Andean
mummy uncovered.
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