City of Salta - Photos and info
Information and photos of the historical center around the Plaza 9 de Julio, with a selection of museums of art and archaeology, cultural institutions and historical sites.
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The Museo de Arqueología de Alta Montaña (Museum of High Altitude Archaeology) was inaugurated in 2004 to preserve, research and exhibit a unique collection: the mummified bodies of two children and a young woman from the Inca period, offered to the gods in a Capacocha ceremony on the Llullaillaco volcano (6739 m), at the border between Argentina and Chile, with over 100 burial objects.
In the MAAM, only one of the three mummies at a time is on display in a glass-enclosed cold chamber. Vitrines show funerary objects belonging to each sacrificed individual, including anthropomorphic female and male figurines with bodies of gold or silver and feather crowns, as well as various objects with ritual significance.
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MAAM
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Information and photos of the historical center around the Plaza 9 de Julio, with a selection of museums of art and archaeology, cultural institutions and historical sites.