An Incan child from Chile ’s Cerro El Plomo ritually sacrificed over 500 years ago and well preserved as a frozen mummy did not die “peacefully” as previously believed, but from a blow to ...

The first frozen high mountain Inca human sacrifice was found atop a peak in Chile in 1954. "La Momia del Cerro El Plomo," the Mummy of El Plomo Peak became its name, and until Juanita, it was ...

Where Did the Plomo Mummy Come From? Before being sacrificed, the boy walked more than 1,250 miles from south-central Peru to his death on Cerro El Plomo — located about 28 miles east of present-day ...

Most—like the Iceman found in Austria in 1991, other Incan mummies such as the El Plomo mummy found in 1952 and the young Mt. Aconcagua boy found in 1982—will remain locked away at scientific ...