"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 historyof the human race"