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Ice Mummies—Frozen in Heaven
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Program Overview
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Note: This program contains information about child
sacrifice. You should preview the program to determine its
appropriateness for your classroom.
NOVA accompanies anthropologist Johan Reinhard as he journeys to the
5,639-meter (18,500-foot) peak of Sara Sara in southern Peru in
search of evidence of capa cocha, a ritual in which the Incas
were said to sacrifice their own children to the gods.
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The program describes Spanish chronicles that detail Inca life
and beliefs.
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Archeologists ascend the mountain in search of evidence of the
chronicled, but never proven, ritual. Observations of several
bodies discovered earlier support the ritual's existence,
including a boy found frozen in the Chilean mountains, a girl
found frozen on Mt. Ampato in Peru, and a boy found on Mt.
Aconcagua in Argentina.
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The program ends with the discovery of Sarita, a girl buried 500
years ago.
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