Meet The 500-Year-Old Inca Girl -- Medical student Soledad Canas introduces the mummy to several of her student friends at the faculty of legal medicine in Santiago where the mummy is being examined in order to discover the best way of preserving it still longer. The discovery of the mummy of an Inca girl who lived at least 500 years ago has fascinated the scientific world. It is thought the girl was 15 or over when she died. Her mummy was found in ice which had preserved it marvelously over t