Frozen on a 22,000-foot volcano for 500 years, Inca child mummies may have been sacrificed to secure an empire

Deep in the Andes, atop the frozen summit of Llullaillaco volcano on the border of Argentina and Chile, archaeologists once ...

Scientists Rewrote the Story Behind One of History’s Most Famous Child Sacrifices

New radiocarbon dating of the ‘Llullaillaco Maiden’ appears to rule out a response to natural disasters or Inca campaigns of conquest.

Egypt's lost royal tomb of King Thutmose II found near Luxor: The first pharaoh's tomb discovered since Tutankhamun in 1922

Archaeologists discovered King Thutmose II's lost royal tomb near Luxor in February 2025. This significant find completes the ...
EL PAÍS English

The Andean long-eared mouse, the mammal that holds the key to surviving at altitudes of more than 22,000 feet

A study examines the genetic and metabolic mechanisms that allow the South American rodent to live on the summit of the world’s second-highest active volcano ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Biologists Find 13 Freeze-Dried Mouse Mummies Atop Andean Volcanoes

High up in the Andes Mountains, the world is a barren mix of rock, snow and ice. Temperatures never rise above freezing. The air is so thin, it’s hard to breathe. At 20,000 feet above sea level, ...
Scientific American

The World’s Highest-Dwelling Mammal Lives atop a Volcano

Scientists spotted a mouse at the summit of Llullaillaco, a 22,000-foot-tall volcano on the border of Chile and Argentina. Julia Rosen reports. In 2013 two mountaineers reached the top of Volcán ...
The Scientist

How the World’s Highest-Altitude Mammal Thrives

The Andean leaf-eared mouse is happy living at both sea level and at 22,000 feet. A new genomic study reveals how it adapts.