At least 500 years old, the Inca maiden found at the top of the Andes is so well-preserved that visitors find themselves whispering, for fear of waking her National Treasure: The History of the Lie ...

High in the Andes, above the clouds and far from everyday life, archaeologists uncovered a discovery that still feels unreal.

A lifelike sculpture revealing the potential living face of Peru's most famous mummy, a teenage Inca girl sacrificed in a ritual over 500 years ago on the Andean peaks, has been unveiled. (Let's hope ...

Forensic artist Oscar Nilsson explains how he created a facial approximation of an Incan "Ice Maiden" 500 years after she died. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

AREQUIPA, Peru (Reuters) - The reconstructed head and torso of a young girl likely sacrificed to appease Incan gods was unveiled in Peru on Tuesday, with three-dimensional scans of her mummy helping ...

There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one science ...

Three Incan children who were sacrificed 500 years ago were regularly given drugs and alcohol in their final months to make them more compliant in the ritual that ultimately killed them, new research ...

The face of Peru’s most famous mummy has been reconstructed nearly 30 years after it was found. The mummy is of a teenage girl ritually sacrificed in the Inca empire over 500 years ago. It was ...