Discoverer of the mummy from Ampato at the Silesian University of Technology
Dr Johan Reinhard, an American archaeologist and anthropologist who discovered the famous mummy of a girl in the south of Peru, will be a guest of the Silesian University of Technology. The researcher will give a lecture on Wednesday, May 22, during the opening of an exhibition on the Inca ritual of Capacocha organized by the Andean Research Centre of the University of Warsaw, Museo Santuarios Andinos de la Universidad Católica de Santa Maria Arequipa in Peru.
Capacocha was a ritual in which the Incas offered sacrifices to mountain deities. The richest victims, whose remains are frozen mummies along with burial equipment, were discovered in the nineties on the mountain tops of southern Peru. The exhibition presents the results of the latest research of mummies, artifacts and high mountain stands carried out by the Polish-Peruvian team and the process of reconstruction of the mummy face of the famous Ampato lady.
One of the co-authors of the research and reconstruction is Dr Dominika Sieczkowska-Jacyna, who is an employee of the Institute of Physics - Centre for Science and Education, where she deals with radiocarbon dating of the Inca period in the Andes.
The exhibition "Capacocha: Following the Gods of the Incas" is organized in cooperation between the Institute of Physics of the Silesian University of Technology and the Andean Research Centre of the University of Warsaw in a project concerning the internationalization of Polish research stations abroad.
The opening of the exhibition will take place on 22 May 2024 at 10:45 am in Hall B at the Centre for New Technologies of the Silesian University of Technology.
Event programme:
- 10:45-11:00 the opening
- 11:00-11:30 prof. dr hab. Andrzej Rakowski, Presentation of projects of the Silesian University of Technology and Center for Andean Studies of the University of Warsaw in Peru
- 11:30-12:15 Dr Johan Reinhard, Discoveries of sacred Inca burials
- 12:15-13:00, lunch
- 13:00-13:45, dr Dagmara Socha, Isotope studies on capacocha burials
- 13:45-14:30, dr Dominika Sieczkowska-Jacyna, Problems of radiocarbon dating of capacocha burials
The exhibition will be on display until 9 June.
Organisation of the exhibition co-financed within the framework of the NCN project OPUS-19 Chronology of the Inca expansion in the Cordillera de Vilcabamba (Peru) UMO-2020/37/B/HS3/01622
