News from Peru, via Ars Technica: “A forensic artist has given a 500-year-old Inca ‘ice maiden’ a face Dubbed ‘Juanita’.
In 1995, archaeologists discovered the frozen, mummified remains of a young Inca girl high in the mountains of Peru, thought to have died as part of a sacrificial ritual known as Capacocha (or Ohapaq hucha).
In late October, we learned how she most likely looked in life, thanks to a detailed reconstruction by Swedish forensic artist, Oscar Nilsson.
A plaster bust of the reconstruction was unveiled at a ceremony at the Andean Sanctuaries Museum of the Catholic University of Santa Maria in Arequipa, Peru, where the girl’s remains (now called Juanita) have been since her discovery.
See her and read the rest of the story at https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/how-a-forensic-artist-reconstructed-the-face-of-500-year-old-inca-ice-maiden/
David Johns
City: Cuenca
In 1995, archaeologists discovered the frozen, mummified remains of a young Inca girl high in the mountains of Peru, thought to have died as part of a sacrificial ritual known as Capacocha (or Ohapaq hucha).
In late October, we learned how she most likely looked in life, thanks to a detailed reconstruction by Swedish forensic artist, Oscar Nilsson.
A plaster bust of the reconstruction was unveiled at a ceremony at the Andean Sanctuaries Museum of the Catholic University of Santa Maria in Arequipa, Peru, where the girl’s remains (now called Juanita) have been since her discovery.
See her and read the rest of the story at https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/how-a-forensic-artist-reconstructed-the-face-of-500-year-old-inca-ice-maiden/
David Johns
City: Cuenca
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