In a remarkable unveiling, the potential true appaerance of "Juanita," Peru's iconic mummy, a teenage Inca girl sacrificed over half a millennium ago on the lofty Andean peaks, has been revealed.
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00:20 The reconstruction was made, as Dr. Wiachau mentioned, using the Manchester technique.
00:25 We made the reconstruction of the musculoskeletal after muscles. We used the previous study of the deep of the soft tissues to make everything correct.
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00:42 Well, for me it was extremely interesting, obviously for different reasons.
00:45 One is that I was able to see the face of the ice maiden Juanita as she was when she was alive.
00:53 That's something that I didn't think at the time in 1995, 28 years ago, that we would be able to have a serious reconstruction of exactly what she looked like.
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