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The mummies of Incan rulers were among the holiest objects of Incan religion. The mummies were actually treated as if they were still alive. They had servants, maintained ownership of their property, were consulted as oracles, and were taken to major festivals or to visit other mummies. The mummy shown at right in a 16th-century Spanish codex is being transported in the same manner as the living royalty. Human Sacrifice Some Incan mummies have been found on high mountain peaks in the Andes. These mummies were human sacrifices. Frozen for hundreds of years, the mummies allow researchers to examine
Some dead are mummified as a political statement, others by complete accident. While Tutankhamun may be the most famous mummy in the world, he certainly is not the best preserved. There are other examples of mummification, either natural or otherwise, that leave King Tut for dead, no pun intended. I've collected some of the world's best preserved mummies. Each has a story to tell and the infamy behind some of these corpses is nothing short of mind blowing.