I read lots of random stuff, no doubt like many Speccie readers. I recently learnt about a mummified body of a young female teenager found towards the peak of a mountain in the Andes, the body having been revealed because of a volcanic explosion.
Dubbed Mummy Juanita, she had been clubbed to death (in the mid-fifteenth century, which is not that long ago) to appease the Inca gods so that the rains would come at the right time and there would be no extreme weather events.
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