{"id":26207,"date":"2023-10-31T10:39:09","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T10:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berkshiredoulas.com\/?p=26207"},"modified":"2023-10-31T10:39:09","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T10:39:09","slug":"scientists-reconstruct-face-of-500-year-old-mummified-girl-sacrificed-in-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berkshiredoulas.com\/world-news\/scientists-reconstruct-face-of-500-year-old-mummified-girl-sacrificed-in-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists reconstruct face of 500-year-old mummified girl sacrificed in ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boffins have reconstructed the face of a mummified teenage girl sacrificed in a ritual in the Andes over 500 years ago.<\/p>\n

An international team of scientists teamed up with Oscar Nilsson, a Swedish sculptor specialising in facial reconstruction of ancient humans, to craft the 3D model of 'Juanita\u2019s' face before she became a human sacrifice to Inca gods.<\/p>\n

The model, that took around 400 hours to construct, was the highlight of a ceremony at the Andean Sanctuaries Museum of the Catholic University of Santa Maria in Arequipa, southern Peru, last Tuesday (October 24).<\/p>\n

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To create the model, the team used a replica of the skull before getting body scans and DNA studies.<\/p>\n

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Dagmara Socha, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Warsaw\u2019s Centre for Andean Studies, was involved in the project. She said: \u201cJuanita was a teenager who was well nourished and in good health at the time of her death.\u201d<\/p>\n

Juanita, who was between 13 and 15-years-old, was sacrificed between A.D. 1440 and 1450, according to anthropological studies. She was reportedly forced to kneel after being drugged. <\/p>\n

It is believed she was killed by a blunt trauma to the head. Juanita, also known as the Lady of Ampato, was also believed to have been from a noble Cusco family.<\/p>\n

At the time of her death, she was 1.40 meters (55 inches) tall and weighed 35 kilos (77 pounds).<\/p>\n

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