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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Montañas sagradas del mundo andino
(Sacred mountains of the Andean world)
Exhibition of photographs and texts by Christian Vitry at MAAM.
Born in Salta in 1965, the multidisciplinary researcher, archaeologist, mountaineer and director of the Qhapaq Ñan Salta program was part of the expedition that discovered and recovered the children's graves on Llullaillaco in 1999.
© Photo: Binder & Haupt, 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.