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North Smithfield High School Library: Ancient Inca:

The Ancient Inca:

"She's considered to be one of the best-preserved mummies in the world, a 500-year-old Inca girl known as "The Maiden."

 "The mummy of the younger girl found at Llullaillaco and the grave gods she was buried with; her grave and body were richly adorned indicating she may have been the highest status of the children sacrificed."

National Geographic:

"The Lost City of the Incas: Machu Picchu" Slide show

&

"In the Wonderland of Peru - Rediscovering Machu Picchu"

"The work accomplished by the Peruvian Expedition of 1912...this story appears in the April 1913 issue of National Geographic magazine"

NOVA:

"The Sacrificial Ceremony" by Liesl Clark

NOVA:

"The Lost Inca Empire" by Liesl Clark

Gale:

World History in Context:

This database "reaches back to the ancient world — and forward to today's headlines — to deliver a chronicle of the great cultures and societies that have formed the history of the human race"

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