Discover Magazine

"Lavishly entombed pharaohs like King Tut have forever linked mummification with Egypt in our minds. But the Egyptians were 3,000 years behind at least one South American culture. watch archaeologists at work in Chile, unraveling the mystery of the ancient Chinchuorro's black mummy. Then, travel to Bolivia, near Lake Titicaca, where archaeologists and astronomers alike have been puzzled for centuries by the structural remains of a lost city and the strange arrangement of pillars -- possibly astrological in purpose -- nestled high in the Andes."--Container.