New discovery of mummy Virgin 500 years old

New research has shown that this mummy used coca leaves and alcohol during the months before his death.

A recent study showed that the 500-year-old mummy named "Maiden" (Maiden) revealed, the 15-year-old Inca girl and other 5-year-old boys and girls all used alcohol and chemicals. like cocaine (main substance in coca leaf) during the last months before dying.

These three Inca mummies were discovered in 1999 in an ice hole at an altitude of 6,739m above the sea level of Argentina's Llullaillaco volcano. According to scientists, these children have been turned into sacrifices, used in the Inca religious rite, the area stretching along the present Andes.

Previous research results have shown that babies have been 'fattened' with a fairly complete diet of corn and llamas of dried llamas within a year. And the 15-year-old Inca suffered a bacterial lung infection at the time of death.

Recently, however, through analysis of hair samples, researchers have shown that these mummies also consume coca leaves and alcohol regularly. But more specifically, the "Maiden" girl used coca leaves to increase significantly in the last 6 months before dying.

Scientists surmised that the reason Maiden used so many coca leaves was because she wanted the most ready spirit when she became a sacrifice. Researchers have discovered a number of leftover coca leaves between the "Virgin" mummy's teeth .

The analysis showed that some coca leaves were left between the mummies of the "Virgin" - the blue point in figure B.

Not only that, the way of sitting on folded legs, hands in front of the belly, the 'Virgin' still wore a gray scarf, wearing metal and bone jewelry when it was discovered to show a peaceful departure. her.

Andrew Wilson, an archaeologist at the University of Bradford (UK), said: "In the last week, the girl used a large amount of coca and alcohol, which shows that she is very serious about the mission. assigned to be his sacrifice ". After being sacrificed, the temperature is always frozen and some other natural factors help preserve the body of the mummy almost intact.