The Mystery of the Rascar Capac Mummy

Rascar Capac the sinister creature featured on Hergés album The Seven Crystal Balls 1948 has left its mark on many generations of readers To draw it the Belgian cartoonist was probably inspired by a mummy exhibited in the first preColumbian exhibition organized by the Brussels Cinquantenaire Museum in 1923 Two intrepid archaeologists embark on a fascinating journey to reconstruct the story of the mysterious mummy