Mummy Quiz

9. Recently, mummies were found in the Andes mountains of Peru. The mummies are from the Inca empire which flourished from the 15th to 16th centuries. The Inca believed the mountains were sacred and needed to be appeased. How did they appease their mountain gods?


Answer - c. They sometimes sacrificed boys and young women.

In 1995 the body of a young girl who had served her Inca community as a human sacrifice was found on Mount. Ampato in the Andes. Her high-altitude resting place had kept her remains frozen in an unprecedented state of preservation, with hair and skin intact. (From the EXPLORER film “Mystery of the Inca Mummy.”)

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