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.
First thing that came into my mind upon seeing this image:
Where was this picture taken? Who are these people?
Did they put her back?
DID THEY PUT HER BACK?!
ETA:
Answer, upon looking at google? No. No they didn’t. She and several others are currently in a museum.
But hey, at least they’re in the right country.
::bitterly drinks coffee::
“The research, by a British-led team” This is my suprised face. See how suprised I am?
agutie.homestead.com/files/world_news_map/mummy_inca_girl.html
I mean, I understand the intrinsic value of exploring really ancient gravesites and researching them and photographing them, even in taking minute samples for carbon dating and stuff. But PUT THEM BACK. In the event that you have to move them at all, which YOU PROBLY DON’T (situations in which bringing corpses to large imaging devices is relevant aside). But once that’s done, PUT THEM BACK.
Because, yanno, they were people. Because they ARE people.
These children DIED to be in the place that you found them, jackasses.
People visiting the museum would get just as much in terms of educational experience from a well-made replica and a bunch of detailed photos. You do not need the actual human corpse there. If you truly and deeply need to see human corpses for the sake of anatomical detail, go to Bodyworlds or its like. The people there volunteered to be there.
Stop robbing graves in the name of science.
We should know better by now.
