The iconic Plomo Mummy of the eight-year-old ... priests and officials of the Inca Empire. Before his death, there are signs ...

Authorities in the Argentine province of Mendoza announced that the mummified remains of an 8-year-old Inca boy will be returned ... only one sacred mummy was restituted so far.

Hundreds flocked this week to a museum in the north of Argentina to admire a well-preserved mummy of an Inca maiden that is ... year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy. The exhibit opened this week ...

Most Inca mummies were arranged in the familiar fetal position and were either wrapped in leather or cloth, or placed in baskets or under huge ceramic jars. These "mummy bundles" were often ...

The first frozen high mountain Inca human sacrifice was found ... they found two more mummy children, a girl and a boy. It is believed these may have been companion sacrifices to the more ...