Scientists reconstruct face of 500-year-old mummy

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Scientists from Peru and Poland unveiled the face of a girl sacrificed more than 500 years ago during the Inca Empire and whose mummified remains were found near a volcano in the Peruvian Andes nearly three decades ago. - REUTERS

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00:00 [Street noise]

00:29 Seeing Juanita, seeing her face as it actually was when she was alive,

00:33 it's a difficult feeling to express because when I saw her,

00:38 this was over 20,000 feet, her face had been dried out because the cloth covering it had been torn apart

00:44 as she, in a burial, fell down inside a crater.

00:48 And when I looked at her I remember thinking,

00:52 what a pity because we knew the rest of the body was really well preserved,

00:55 that it was exactly the face that was most exposed and therefore most difficult to kind of be able to replicate.

01:03 28 years later, it's been done, it's been done in a magnificent way.

01:07 I mean, she has this pensive look that is made possible only by someone with great ability in this kind of work.

01:15 [Street noise]

01:36 [Speaking in foreign language]

01:39 Two tomographies were made of the mummy, one in the United States and the other in Arequipa.

01:46 We discovered that the mummy Juanita died from a head blow.

01:50 In the CT scan, we could see that her head was broken after a mighty blow.

01:55 [Speaking in foreign language]

01:59 [BLANK_AUDIO]

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