Scientists in Peru have unveiled the reconstructed head and torso of a teenager – five centuries after her death.
But the unsettling truth is that the girl was probably drugged and murdered as a sacrifice to appease the Inca gods.
The Inca once ruled a vast empire in what is now Latin America but fell to the Spanish when the European nation invaded in the 16th century.Dr Johan Reinhard with the recreation. He found the mummy in 1995 in Peru. Picture: Reuters. When the body was found it was wrapped in a ceremonial tunic and head piece and ceramic items such as bowls surrounded it.
Disturbingly, historians believe she may have been drugged and then forced to kneel before being hit over the head with a truncheon like object in a ritual ceremony.The recreation has been called “Juanita” or “Inca Ice Maiden”. Picture: Reuters.
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