Plomo Mummy
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File:El Plomo Laguna de la Cumbre.jpg
The Enterratorio where the mummy was found, at the secondary summit of El Plomo, 10 m left of the frozen lake. (Altitude 5400 m)
The Plomo Mummy (aka Boy of El Plomo, El Plomo Mummy, or La Momia del Cerro El Plomo in Spanish) is the well preserved remains of an Incan child found on Cerro El Plomo in 1954.[1] It was the first frozen mummy discovery of high-altitude human sacrifice by the Incas,[2] a practice called qhapaq hucha.
The mummy is curated by the National Museum of Natural History in Santiago, Chile and it has a replica of the mummy on public display.
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