Discovering the Inca Ice Maiden

By Johan Reinhard

Subjects: Mummies, Archaeology, Juvenile literature, Peru, antiquities, Antiquities, Ice mummies, Indians of South America, Archaeology, juvenile literature, Incas, Inca Ice Maiden (Ice mummy), Methodology

Description: A first-person account of the 1995 discovery of the over 500-year-old Peruvian ice mummy on Mount Ampato and a description of the subsequent retrieval and scientific study.