Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology by Christopher Heaney

Empires of the Dead: Inca Mummies and the Peruvian Ancestors of American Anthropology

Christopher Heaney

384 pages • first pub 2023 (view editions)

nonfiction history informative mysterious tense medium-paced
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In 1532, when Spain invaded the Inca empire, Europeans learned that Inca and Andean peoples made their ancestors sacred by preserving them with the world's oldest practices of artificial mummification. To extinguish their power, the Spaniards col...

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