A Mountain Lake Hides 500-year-old Secret | Preserving the Dead and Making Their Skin Into Leather!
High in the remote northwestern Andes lies the Laguna de los Condores, or Lake of the Condors, which harbors a chilling secret dating back 500 years. In 1997, researchers discovered hundreds of mummies peering out from mausoleums built into the steep cliff-face surrounding this mountain lake. These are the Incan empire mummies. The Leymebamba Museum…