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MuseumsSite Name: MAAM Alternative Name: Museum of High Altitude Archaeology
Country: Argentina Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Salta
Latitude: 24.78883S  Longitude: 65.411028W
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2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
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MAAM submitted by DrewParsons : The museum building photographed in May 2019. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museum in Argentina.
The Museum of High Altitude Archaeology is purpose built to study and display the naturally preserved bodies of multiple Inca sacrifices discovered in the high Andes, immediately to the west of Salta, Argentina. In 2007, an exhibit of the "Children of LLullaillaco" opened, displaying what are possibly the most perfectly preserved human remains from the Inca Empire.

Spanish writers collected oral history from native sources in the colonial period. This included descriptions of this type of human sacrifice - which was rare and highly ceremonial. These chronicles and the physical archaeology are used by the museum to tell the story of the meaning of these rituals for the Andean cultures.

The museum also focuses on textiles and repatriation of artifacts and human remains that were excavated in the past and removed from the area. The museum website (English version) can be found at this link. Please note, the website includes further links to photographs of the preserved human remains. Additional notes added by Drew Parsons in May 2019: Photography was not permitted when I visited the museum in May 2019 although the website for the museum mentioned above has lots of photos and the curator gave me permission to copy photos from their website into Megalithic Portal.

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MAAM submitted by DrewParsons : Photograph from the museum website - permission granted by the curator when I visited in May 2019. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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MAAM submitted by DrewParsons : Photograph from the museum website - permission granted by the curator when I visited in May 2019 (Vote or comment on this photo)

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MAAM submitted by DrewParsons (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Mummified Incan Maiden Astonishes Museum Crowd by bat400 on Friday, 14 September 2007
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A mummy of an Inca girl, described as "perfect" by the archaeologists who found her in 1999, has gone on display for the first time in Argentina. Hundreds of people crowded into a museum in the north-western city of Salta to see "la Doncella", the Maiden.

The remains of the girl, who was 15 when she died, were found in an icy pit on top of a volcano in the Andes, along with a younger boy and girl. Researchers believe they were sacrificed by the Incas 500 years ago. The three were discovered at a height of 6,700m (22,000ft) on Mount Llullaillaco, a volcano in north-west Argentina on the border with Chile.

It is believed the Children of Llullaillaco, as they have come to be known, were sacrificed during a ceremony thanking the Inca gods for the annual corn harvest.

The exhibition has angered several indigenous groups who campaigned to stop the mummy from going on display. Miguel Suarez from the Calchaquies valley tribes in and around Salta told the Associated Press news agency that the exhibit was "a great mistake", adding that he hoped visitors would show respect for the dead.

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