Article: Unveílíng ancestors of the mountaintop: spurred by the discovery of the frozen bodies of three Inca children, a new museum in Salta is educating Argentines about their Indian heritage.

THE PRIDE OF THE LOCALS showed on their faces as they toured the new museum, only opened in November of last year. This was themselves they were seeing, their culture, so long ignored and denigrated since the Spanish Conquest. Finally, here it all was on display because of three children who walked to the top of a nearby mountain more than five hundred years ago, freezing to death as an offering to the gods.

The Museo de Arqueología de Alta Montaña (MAAM) is the product of years of work. It was built to house the mummified bodies of three Inca children found on a mountaintop by the National Geographic Society in the late 1990s. But the museum does more than ...

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