MAAM Salta
The highlight of the Museo de Arqueología de Alta Montaña are the mummies of three children, sacrificed in the Inca period on the Llullaillaco volcano (6739 m), with over 100 burial offerings.
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The Museo de Arqueología de Alta Montaña (Museum of High Altitude Archaeology) at the Plaza 9 de Julio, Bartolomé Mitre street 77. The house, now a listed building with a neo-Gothic facade, was built in the middle of the 19th century.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder, Universes in Universe
The highlight of the Museo de Arqueología de Alta Montaña are the mummies of three children, sacrificed in the Inca period on the Llullaillaco volcano (6739 m), with over 100 burial offerings.