Photo of the “Llullaillaco Maiden”, a 15 year old girl sacrificed during the Inca Empire for both purposes of religious rite and social control. She was chosen a year prior to her death, fed a ritualistic diet for an approximate twelve months to make her gain weight, then was drugged and left on the shrine at Volcano Llullaillaco, where she was left to die of exposure. For five hundred years, her body had been preserved at 82 ft. She is considered to be the best preserved Andean mummy ever uncovered.
At first when I saw this picture, I was thinking: "What sort of medical surgery procedure is she having?" That is until I read the description underneath. It's amazing that everything was perserved so well like that... and that nothing was burned from being on a volcano.
