Glacial Mummies: Forensic Secrets of the Ampato Ice Maiden
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High in the freezing altitudes of the Peruvian Andes, archaeologists discovered a 500-year-old Inca girl so perfectly preserved that she still had blood in her heart. She was not chemically embalmed; she was flash-frozen by the extreme thermodynamics of the mountain. The Ampato Ice Maiden, sacrificed to the mountain gods, provides an unprecedented, microscopic window into the pre-Columbian world. ...
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High in the freezing altitudes of the Peruvian Andes, archaeologists discovered a 500-year-old Inca girl so perfectly preserved that she still had blood in her heart. She was not chemically embalmed; she was flash-frozen by the extreme thermodynamics of the mountain. The Ampato Ice Maiden, sacrificed to the mountain gods, provides an unprecedented, microscopic window into the pre-Columbian world. ...
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