3. Machu Picchu: Inca Gods and Human Sacrifices

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🗓️ 6 March 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Part 3/4. Juanita the Ice Maiden is one of the most famous mummies in the world. She was found in 1991 by anthropologist Johan Reinhard lying out in the sun on top of a dormant volcano in the Peruvian Andes. Found almost perfectly preserved, she was bludgeoned to death as a human sacrifice.

Dan is joined by Johan who tells the story of her discovery as well as a host of expert guests who give insight into Inca spiritual practices and death rituals….from speaking to oracles and keeping mummified family members in the house to child sacrifice. And, while visiting the Andean Sanctuaries Museum to see Juanita, Dan is presented with an extraordinary request...

Produced by Mariana Des Forges and edited by Dougal Patmore.

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1:28.4	when I decided to go to on patto
1:30.2	it was really one of the last places I thought that would have anything.
1:35.0	It started out just to be, well, let's go take a look up the slope, and as we went up on
1:39.5	Pto, all of a sudden we began to see traces of the
1:43.7	presence of the Incas.
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