![A mummy over 1,000 years old was discovered at the Cajamarquilla site in Peru in April 2023.](https://imagenes.elpais.com/resizer/v2/2P2FATFESJDD5BB6NR7VLSJ7QY.jpg?auth=5e5d365259cb9a903843b5917472a808ae03ba13b63a59c6baf899030f540774&width=414&height=233&focal=3200%2C1070)
How do we feel when we come face-to-face with our dead ancestors?
In ‘Empires of the Dead,’ historian Christopher Heaney uses Inca mummies to explore colonization, capitalism, anthropology’s origins and the impact of pre-Hispanic remains on the living