Word: inca
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...what is usually a three-day tour. All the while they complain of the altitude sickness that often comes with the area's 13,000-ft. elevation. They have seen the famous ruins, but they are probably missing what is still alive in the Sacred Valley of the Inca, cradle of one of the world's great civilizations...
...Inca used to treat headaches by drilling a hole in the skull. The French favored cold compresses. Today we use shelffuls of heavily advertised over-the-counter remedies: aspirin, Advil, Tylenol, Aleve. But how much do scientists really know about headaches and what causes them? Quite a bit, as doctors who gathered in New York City last week for a meeting of the American Association for the Study of Headache can attest...
...band called Inca Son played Latin American music, and down the street, a band called Jim's Big Ego played, among other songs, their version of Simon and Garfunkel's "Feelin' Groovy...
...display in a cooler in Washington, courtesy of the National Geographic Society. It helped pay for the expedition that found her, high up in the Peruvian Andes. The body screamed "human sacrifice" from the start. Earthen tomb. Religious offerings--statuettes, coca leaves, corn. Typical sacrifice MO for the Inca, which is what she was. The location fits too: a volcano called Ampato. The Inca worshipped it as a god. Funny thing is, it was Ampato's eruption in 1995 that melted the glacier. Almost as if the god wanted to come clean about its guilty past...
...that's for the priests and philosophers. I don't know, maybe this kid didn't die in vain. See, the Inca are still pretty mysterious. And the girl--they call her Juanita--has plenty to tell the historians. About how the Inca lived. How they dressed. The crazy things they believed in. And all that ice preserved her tissues. If there's any intact DNA, the molecular-biology boys will have a field day. She's important, all right. So important that some Peruvian scientists didn't want to lend her out. Thought traveling to the States might damage...