They Fed Her, Dressed Her, Then Left Her to Freeze

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]This child was carried to the top of a 6,000 meter mountain and left there to freeze 500 years later, still perfectly preserved. The Inca called it Capaca.

[00:00:12]Children chosen as offerings to the gods, carried to the highest peaks, left to die in the ice. When archaeologists found them in 1999, their last meal was still in their stomachs. The mountains kept them frozen for 500 years.