The Dark Truth Behind the Recovery of a 500-Year-Old Mummy

"Beautiful Beyond Exaggeration"

That's how one Spanish historian described Tanta Carhau. She was ten years old at the time of her death. She served as a Capacocha sacrifice. This was a type of ritual that Incas performed in order to ensure that only humanity's best joined the deities in the afterlife... 

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Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.