Plucked from brilliantly colored macaws, some 15,000 feathers adorn the front of a 1,300-year-old mummy bundle unearthed in Peru. The feathered mantle topped by a beaked mask with a red quest and two blue "wings" formed the human-size figure of a bird. Inside lay the bones of a young woman who may have been a sacred healer - and perhaps was put to death...
