Mummies of "Tomb 2" This mummy of a young ... He, too, is believed to have been a sacrificial victim who was buried alive. This mummy of a woman, who was approximately 40-years old, was found ...

All other high-altitude Inca mummies have been completely desiccated ... "Many boys and girls were sacrificed in pairs, being buried alive and well dressed and adorned....items that a married ...

Around twenty years ago, a team of archaeologists discovered a white cheese buried with several mummies in China's Tarim Basin in the north-west of the country. The mummies date back around 3,500 ...

Some mummies were decorated after they were buried The mummy with the gilded tongue wasn't the only star of the recent finding. According to Dominican archaeologist Kathleen Martínez, who led the ...

this man was buried with the remains of at least two infants. The position the mummy was found in has some religious significance to it, and is not uncommon among Peruvian mummies, Socha said.