INCA Children Video of 15 Year-old Girl Buried 500 Years Ago, Still Looking Alive with her Skin all Intact (SEE PHOTOS)

Inca Children

The boy, the maiden, the girl of lightning: they were three Inca children, entombed on a bleak and frigid mountaintop 500 years ago as a religious sacrifice.

Unearthed in 1999 from the 22,000-foot summit of Mount Llullaillaco, a volcano 300 miles west of here near the Chilean border, their frozen bodies were among the best preserved mummies ever found, with internal organs intact, blood still present in the heart and lungs, and skin and facial features mostly unscathed. No special effort had been made to preserve them. The cold and the dry, thin air did all the work.

They froze to d--th as they slept, and 500 years later still looked like sleeping children, not mummies.