The Lady of Ampato

By Crusader1307

Also known as ''The Mummy Juanita'' – is an archaeological discovery found in Southern Peru in 1995. Another of The Incan Culture's ''sacrificial children'' offerings – ''She'' dates to around the year 1480 AD. As We have seen with other Articles, The Incan Culture regularly sacrificed pre-chosen children of Royal or Noble birth, to ''The Gods''. Mostly, these Gods ''lived'' inside the many Mountains and Volcanoes of The Region. Such Children led a ''charmed and privileged'' life. At the ''appointed time'' such sacrifices were taken to sacred locations and ''offered' to The Gods. The preferred method of ''exit'' was suffocation, poisoning and lastly blunt force trauma. ''Juanita'' as she was dubbed, was an offering to Mount Ampato's ''God''. Roughly determined to be 14 years old, ''Juanita'' was sacrifice by blunt force trauma (to the head). Carefully wrapped, she was placed into a hole at the base of Mount Ampato. The combination of both ''warm'' and ''freezing'' temperatures (at times'', perfectly preserved Her corpse. Her face, (at one point), was possibly revealed to the upper layers of Earth (thru erosion). It became to undergo natural decomposition factors, until (by chance), it was buried again. The majority of Juanita's body however, is almost so perfectly preserved – She could be ''mistaken'' for a recent death. She is currently preserved at The National Geographic Society Museum in Washington, DC (US).