Juanita La Doncella literally sits frozen in sleep at the High Country Archaeological Museum in Salta Argentina.
Discoverers named her Juanita La Doncella or The Maiden. She was found with two other children on Argentina's Llullaillaco volcano which sits 22,100 feet high.
According to the archaeologists who found the mummified remains in Argentina in 1999, the teen girl and the other children were left on a mountaintop to succumb to the cold as offerings to the gods.She's been called the "best preserved of any mummy", by National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Johan Reinhard.Scientists say that her organs are intact .
This lead to the discovery that the Incas fattened the children . Before the sacrifice these children ate maize and animal proteins often only had by the elite. Also further sample testing of her hair determined not only the type of diet and left in the mountains.
The Incan high priests took their victims to high mountaintops for sacrifice. The children wore slippers and dressed in colorful clothing, elaborately decorated with metal, bone and cords. More than 100 precious ornaments were found with these children at the site.
