The goal of Ancient Origins is to highlight recent archaeological discoveries, peer-reviewed academic research and evidence, as well as offering alternative viewpoints and explanations of science, archaeology, mythology, religion and history around the globe. And while some people may seem content with the story as it stands, our view is that there exist countless mysteries, scientific anomalies and surprising artifacts that have yet to be discovered and explained. Lightning Girl did not appear to have been treated as roughly but did not receive the same care or attention as the Maiden.Īt Ancient Origins, we believe that one of the most important fields of knowledge we can pursue as human beings is our beginnings. By contrast, Llullaillaco Boy had blood on his clothes, a nit infestation in his hair and a cloth binding his body, suggesting he may have died of suffocation. The Maiden had a feathered headdress on her head, elaborately braided hair and a number of artifacts placed on a textile draped over her knees. The 13-year-old consumed more of the elite food than the other two and was given the largest amount of coca and alcohol – while the younger children were given coca and alcohol for 9 months before their deaths, the Maiden was given the substances approximately 21 months beforehand. This supports historical accounts suggesting that a few children were selected and prepared for their sacrifice as part of the Incan sacred ceremonies.Įvidence suggests that the Maiden was treated differently from the other two children, who may have served as her attendants. Although they all appear to have had a peasant background as their diet consisted mainly of common vegetables, they all ate the food of the elite leading up to their death.
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In 2012 an analysis on the bodies of the ‘Maiden,’ who was about 13 when she died, and her 4- to 5-year-old companions, Llullaillaco Boy and Lightning Girl, revealed they’d been drugged and given alcohol on a regular basis as part of a year-long series of ceremonial processes leading up to their final sacrifice.Īrchaeologists made the discovery after analyzing hair samples from the frozen mummies, which revealed that all three children had consistently been given coca leaves (from which cocaine is derived) and beer. The bodies were found atop the summit of Volcan Llullaillaco in Argentina. (These are different children than the one that underwent a CT scan this week.) Ancient Origins reported on this find in 2013 because scientists tested the bodies and found the children had been drugged before they were sacrificed. In the early 2000s, archaeologists found the bodies of three other Incan child mummies high in the Andes. It has 150 objects and specimens, including animal and human mummies from South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania and Egypt. Mummies of the World is the largest exhibition of mummies and related artifacts ever produced. Radiologists and archaeologists did a CT scan of the Peruvian mummy to learn more about the deceased child. Many South American cultures believed that a long, narrow head was beautiful, leading them to bind the skulls from birth to form them,” said Cincinnati Museum Center’s Cody Hefner. “It does show evidence of artificial cranial modification. The child’s skull apparently had been bound in life. "As far as figuring out are their anomalies or abnormalities, that's going to take some time and some detailed evaluation of the images.” "We can see dried-out lung, it looks like, and some of the dried-out abdominal organs and liver," Trout said. Andrew Trout of the children’s hospital was also involved in the CT scans and said it might be possible to learn the child’s sex too. We can learn how it died perhaps," Dave Duszynski of the Cincinnati Museum Center told WLWT. We think it's maybe 2 to 3 years old, but we can learn more about its age. Brian Coley, performed a “virtual autopsy” on the mummy with a 3D CT scan. Heather Gill-Frerking, Mummies of the World director of science and education, and the children’s hospital’s chief radiologist, Dr. The mummy’s usual home is at the San Diego Museum of Man, which has a large collection of ancient remains.ĭr.
The ancient remains are in a traveling museum exhibit called Mummies of the World. Scientists know little about a pre-Columbian child mummy of Peru on display in Ohio, but that may soon change as the body of the toddler has just undergone CT scans at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
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