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Mummified Child Sacrifice | National Geographic


she looks like she’s just sleeping and
she’s gonna wake up in the next minute
and you just want to ask her a question
and is it just a feeling that she’s
really gonna come back and answer your
question it’s been five years since
Court dolls last saw that don’t say yeah
and I can see already that the dance
Asia has grown a little bit more saggy
than she used to be she is aging a
little less gracefully than the other
mummies but probably because she’s also
an older patient say sister a study done
on hair cuttings buried with the girl
revealed that her hair was elaborately
braided just before she died perhaps as
part of the sacrificial ceremony let me
see if there’s any hair that’s it’s time
to take a sample of the DOE say–is 500
year old hair Hey look this this is a
white hair
look look look she had white hair yes
census that’s that’s the don’t say yes
here this is very unusual for a 15 year
old to have gray or white hair it’s it’s
muy bizarre it can be due to genetics I
mean some young people do have white
hair
eh but it can also be due to stress that
would be quite interesting why not
quartiles is not the only scientist who
has taken the don’t say as hare in 2003
a team of scientists from the University
of Bradford in England sampled hair from
all three children’s hears difficulties
tried to get a hair with a follicle
which is really not easy it was analyzed
for changes in chemical signatures of
elements like carbon nitrogen and oxygen
a detailed timeline surfaced about what
these children ate and how they lived
from her hair the team discovered a
countdown to sacrifice that began months
before her death and the first event was
one year before the death of the maiden
a shift from a diet of vegetables and
potatoes was changed to the food of the
elite maize and animal protein
in only a moment her life changed
forever
the scientists believe that the maiden
was being fortified for her destiny on
top of the volcano
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