Preserved mummy of 500-year-old Inca ‘Ice Maiden’ wows visitors

via Frinko

She died over 500 years ago yet, with her hands resting on her lap and head falling forward so that her finely braided hair slips across her eyes, this 15-year-old girl looks as peaceful as if she has just fallen into a sleep from which she might wake at any moment.

Her frozen body has been hailed as one of the best preserved Incan mummies ever found and, this week, she went on public display for the first time in the in Argentina.

2 thoughts on “Preserved mummy of 500-year-old Inca ‘Ice Maiden’ wows visitors

  1. It’s scary to think that had circumstances been different, any of us could have been in that glass coffin, not her.

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