Hair and nail tests on eight frozen Inca mummies sacrificed on Andean volcanoes show every one had chewed coca leaves, four had drunk alcohol, and the famous Juanita mummy had taken a plant used in ayahuasca
What were the rituals of the Incan empire? Image credits: WikiMedia Commons High in the Andes, where the air is thin and the mountains seem closer to the sky than to the earth, archaeologists have uncovered a haunting glimpse into one of the Inca Empire’s most sacred ceremonies. Eight frozen mummies of children and young…
