The boy was only 7 when he died more than 500 years ago, chosen for his beauty and health to be sacrificed in an Incan ritual.

ARCHAEOLOGY
The tomb includes not only the warrior’s skeleton, but 1400 artifacts ranging from bronze swords and daggers to gold jewelry and precious stone beads.
Researchers believe that blood was spilled to "feed the gods."
In 1923, director Cecil B. DeMille built a massive Egyptian city to serve as the set of his blockbuster film, "The Ten Commandments."
Researchers have analyzed the fat residue found on pottery at a settlement site.
Scientists use modern technology to get a glimpse of prehistory.
The poem was by Ancient Greek poet Solon
They've sat at the bottom of the South Carolina river ever since they were pushed overboard 150 years ago.
A recently-discovered fossil may have belonged to the Megalania monitor lizard, which grew up to 20 feet.
"I've never seen anything quite like that before, nor have my colleagues, and we were very excited."
Over the years, oracle bones have provided scholars with detailed records of China's Shang Dynasty period.
They've uncovered a treasure trove of archaeological evidence: "There were literally dozens and hundreds of those things.”
Scientists have unearthed the largest cache of a single species of hominins ever discovered in Africa.
The artifacts range from a few hundred to several thousand years old
In a recent "experimental archaeology" project, archaeologists partied like it was the Stone Age.
A thousand years before Stonehenge, the Maltese were building some of the most epic monuments on the planet.