Traces of coca and alcohol Inca mummies of children

Scientists who have studied the well-preserved bodies of three Inca children, came to the conclusion that before the death of those consumed alcoholic beverage and the leaves koki.

The bodies of the children perfectly preserved by being frozen in the mountainous areas near the modern border of Chile and Argentina. According to one version, on top of the Andean rite kapakocha was made, during which the children were sacrificed. Nevertheless, their bodies are not signs of a violent smerti.

Researchers believe that the selected pre-teens accustomed to alcohol and drugs to make the most obedient. The highest dose of these substances was recorded at the oldest, 13-year-old girls, and X-rays showed between her teeth preserved coca leaves. Sami bodies were found in 1999, as well as their condition is due to icing at high altitude, says the material DailyMail.

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