Name: 永恆的冰封木乃伊 (全集) | 國家地理紀錄片精選！ (Mummies Frozen in Time (Full Episode) | DOCUMENTARY SPECIAL | National Geographic)
Uploaded: 2026-03-15T17:04:56.000Z
Duration: 44 min 25 s

The Andes mountains, northwest Argentina.

National Geographic Explorer Johan Reinhardt and a team of climbers ascend a 22,000 foot volcano, Yuyako, in search of evidence of Inca child sacrifice.

National Geographic的探險家Johan Reinhardt和一群登山者攀登一座高達22,000英尺的火山Yuyako，尋找印加兒童祭祀的證據。

We had mummies that were going to be unique in the world and that would give us information about the Inca culture that we could never get in any other way.

我們發現了舉世無雙的木乃伊，它們能提供我們關於印加文化獨一無二的資訊。

Workers digging peat in the Irish Midlands are startled to find a human torso.

在愛爾蘭中部挖掘泥炭的工人，意外發現了一具人體軀幹，令他們大吃一驚。

Examiners rush to the scene and identify the body as a murder victim from 2,000 years ago.

鑑識人員趕到現場，確認這具遺體是2,000年前的謀殺案受害者。

I mean, we have to be mindful, you know, that there's a human tragedy and a reality behind all this.

我覺得，我們必須要記住，這背後是一場真實的人類悲劇。

An American scholar traveled to China's western hinterlands.

一位美國學者前往中國的西部內陸。

I came upon this room which was just full of mummies.

我發現這個房間裡全都是木乃伊。

That's my brother there, or somebody like my brother from 3,000 years ago.

那裡有我的兄弟，或是像我兄弟一樣的3,000年前的人。

Three stories from across the ancient world.

Corpses naturally preserved in unique environments in near perfection.

在獨特的環境中自然保存下來，近乎完美的屍體。

Where they're found and how they died remains part of the mystery.

他們在哪裡被發現以及如何死亡，仍然是謎團的一部分。

In a sense, each of these individuals, regardless what information they give us, from an investigative point of view, they're time capsules.

從某種意義上來說，這些個體，無論他們給我們什麼資訊，從調查的角度來看，他們都是時間膠囊。

Expedition leader Johan Reinhardt, Earth's an Inca burial site.

探險隊領隊 Johan Reinhardt，地球上的印加墓地。

Once we got under that initial frozen layer, then our hopes rose quickly because soon statues started to appear.

一旦我們穿過了最初的冰凍層，我們的希望就迅速燃起，因為很快就開始出現雕像。

And once you start getting statues in a platform like that, you begin to have more hopes of being able to find a human sacrifice, a mummy.

一旦你在那樣的平臺上發現雕像，你就會對能找到人祭、木乃伊抱有更大的希望。

But today, not one mummy, but three, all frozen in tombs that touch the sky.

但今天，不是一具木乃伊，而是三具，都凍在觸及天空的陵墓裡。

一個孩子被燒死，另一個被綁起來。

A third appears to have simply fallen asleep.

These mummies pose uncomfortable questions for the living.

這些木乃伊給活著的人們帶來了令人不安的問題。

What happened on this mountaintop 500 years ago?

五百年前在這座山頂上發生了什麼事？

Can modern science shed light on a mysterious Inca ritual and reveal the story of these three children?

現代科學能否為神祕的印加儀式帶來光明，並揭示這三個孩子的故事？

Today, the children of Llullah Yaco are here at the Museum of High Altitude Archaeology in Salta, Argentina.

今天，Llullah Yaco 的孩子們就在阿根廷薩爾塔的高海拔考古博物館。

Because of the children's delicate state, they are rarely moved or touched, let alone studied.

由於這些孩子的狀態非常脆弱，所以很少移動或觸碰他們，更不用說研究了。

It's very important to keep them in the state of preservation that they were in when they were first discovered.

保持他們剛被發現時的保存狀態非常重要。

It's only in that way that we can get as much information as we can.

只有這樣，我們才能獲得盡可能多的資訊。

Forensic pathologist Angelique Cortals has been given unprecedented access to.

法醫病理學家 Angelique Cortals 獲得了前所未有的接觸機會。

Cortals hopes these frozen corpses can tell us how they lived and died.

Cortals 希望這些冰凍的屍體能告訴我們他們是如何生活和死亡的。

She has only a short time before the children must return to their temperature controlled capsules.

在孩子們必須回到他們有溫度控制的時間膠囊之前，她只有很短的時間。

What's amazing about these bodies is that they're absolutely perfect.

這些身體令人驚嘆的是它們的完美程度。

Most incredibly, you can see their brain, which is unheard of for mummies.

最令人難以置信的是，你可以看到他們的大腦，這對於木乃伊來說是前所未聞的。

Today he weighs a mere 22 and a half pounds, about half of what he would have weighed when alive.

今天他體重僅有 22 磅半，大約是他活著時體重的一半。

There are so many mysteries about these children.

關於這些孩子，有太多謎團了。

The boy is the only one out of the three who is tied up.

這三個孩子中，只有這個男孩被綁著。

He may have been tied up either while still alive, but somehow drugged or right after death.

他可能是在還活著的時候被綁住，但不知何故被下藥，或者是在死後不久被綁住。

Was the boy alive by the time he made it to the top, or was he dead?

這個男孩到達山頂時是活著的，還是已經死了？

If cortals can answer that question, she may uncover the nature of these sacrifices.

如果 Cortals 能回答這個問題，她或許就能揭開這些祭祀的本質。

Violent or merciful, These children, specially chosen for their purity, are believed to have marched almost 1,000 miles to their death.

這些孩子被認為是為了純潔而被特別挑選，然後被帶去走了近一千英里赴死，無論過程是暴力還是仁慈。

Led on an epic journey that began in Cusco, the heart of the empire, ending at the peak of llullaillaco, the equivalent of walking from the Mexican border to Canada, when you put it into the perspective of the kind of terrain they had to get across.

這是一趟史詩般的旅程，從帝國的心臟庫斯科出發，終點是 Llullaillaco 山頂，如果以美國邊境到加拿大的距離來比喻，還要考慮他們必須穿越的地形。

And it's incredible accomplishment in and of itself.

這本身就是一項令人難以置信的成就。

Totally apart from getting to the summit of the mountain.

Scientists estimate the journey may have begun six months before they died.

科學家估計，他們的旅程可能在他們死前六個月就已經開始了。

Through the winds of the Alta Plano and terrain crawling with predators.

穿越高原的風和充滿掠食者的地形。

And across the driest desert on the planet, the Atacama.

以及橫越地球上最乾燥的沙漠——阿塔卡馬沙漠。

Keeping these three children alive was the one goal in mind.

讓這三個孩子活下來是他們心中唯一的目標。

Five hundred years later, Angelique Cortals is investigating their deaths.

五百年後，Angelique Cortals 正在調查他們的死因。

A stain around the boy's mouth catches the scientist's eye.

男孩嘴邊的汙漬引起了科學家的注意。

It could be the residue of chicha, an alcoholic drink made from maize.

那可能是玉米釀成的酒精飲料 chicha 的殘留物。

If it is blood, then we know he's been violently killed.

如果是血，那就表示他是遭到了暴力殺害。

如果是 chicha，那他就是睡著了。

But it really looks like congealed bloods right now.

但現在看起來真的很像是凝固的血跡。

If he was drugged, he may have been mercifully unaware of the sacrifice taking place.

如果他被下藥了，他或許是在毫無知覺的情況下，安詳地被獻祭了。

He's also actually fairly peaceful if you.

而且，如果你仔細看，他其實表情相當平靜。

But of course, the stain area here is going to really determine whether he died of a violent death or not.

不過，這裡的汙漬區域確實會決定他是否死於暴力。

We're kind of hoping that he died peacefully.

I'm really hoping for chicha rather than blood.

我真的很希望是玉米酒，而不是血。

With time already running short, they must say goodbye to the young boy.

由於時間緊迫，他們必須跟這位小男孩告別。

And invite the girl they call the maiden, or Don Sella out of her frozen home.

並邀請他們稱之為「少女」或「Don Sella」的女孩，離開她冰封的家。

She looks like she's just sleeping and she's gonna wake up in the next minute.

她看起來就像在睡覺，下一秒就會醒來。

And you just want to ask her question, and

it's just a feeling that she's really gonna come back and answer your question.

並且有種預感，她真的會回來回答你的問題。

It's been so several years since Cortal last saw her.

距離 Cortal 最後一次見到她，已經過了這麼多年。

And I can see already that the Don Seisha has grown a little bit more saggy than she used to be.

而且我已經看得出來，這位「少女」比以前稍微有點鬆弛了。

She is aging a little less gracefully than the other mummies, but

她不像其他木乃伊那樣優雅地老化，但是

probably because she's also an older patient.

這可能是因為她也是個年紀較大的病人。

The doncella's hair was elaborately braided just before she died, Perhaps as part of the sacrificial ceremony.

這位少女在死前，頭髮被精心編織，也許是作為獻祭儀式的一部分。

Let me see if there's any hair that's cortal selects a hair sample.

讓我看看有沒有什麼頭髮，Cortal 正在採集頭髮樣本。

This is very unusual for a 15 year old to have gray or white hair.

15歲就有白頭髮，這很不尋常喔。

I mean, some young people do have white hair at a very early age, but

呃，有些年輕人確實很早就長白頭髮了，但是

Information obtained from hair samples reveals what these children ate and how they lived in the months prior to death.

從頭髮樣本裡獲得的資訊，可以讓我們知道這些孩子在死前幾個月吃了什麼，以及他們的生活方式。

Okay, so now we are moving on very quickly because we only have 15 minutes to finish the entire Don Seisha.

好的，那我們要趕快進行了，因為我們只剩下15分鐘要把整個Don Seisha完成。

A small amount of time to get eyebrow hair, skin color testing, and deep tissue analysis.

這麼短的時間內要採集眉毛、做膚色檢測，還有深層組織分析。

I'm feeling that people around me are feeling nervous.

我感覺我身邊的人都開始緊張了。