Article: Angel of the Andes.(WORLD NEWS ROUNDUP)(Incan mummy on display)(Brief article)

2 SALTA, Argentina -- The mummy of a teenager is out from under wraps in Argentina. The perfectly preserved remains of a 15-year-old Inca girt are on display at a museum in Argentina. The mummy--named la doncella, Spanish for "the maiden"--was discovered in 1999 in an icy pit on Mount Llullaillaco, a volcano in the Andes. Buried by her side were the mummies of a 6-year-old girt and a 7-year-old boy. Archaeologists believe that the so-called Children of Llullaillaco were sacrificed to Inca gods as part of an annual corn harvest. The Incas believed that the ...

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