CT scans of Inca child sacrifices reveal new details about capacocha rituals

The Incas were known to engage in a sacrificial ritual involving children to appease their gods. Archaeologists have found ...
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In Bolivia's Andes, Indigenous Quechua settle disputes with ritual dance, hand-to-hand combat

SAN PEDRO DE MACHA, Bolivia — In the high altitude Bolivian town of San Pedro de Macha, hundreds of Indigenous Quechua men and women take to the streets for a ritual dance and combat known as the ...
Science Daily

Inca children were drugged with coca and alcohol before sacrifice

Scientists have examined the bodies of three 500-year-old Inca children. This has given new, detailed knowledge about the old Ince ritual "capacocha" which also involved sacrificing humans. Now we ...
Greek Reporter

Inca Empire Used Child Sacrifice to Enforce Religion and Power

New CT scans of Inca child mummies show how sacrifice rituals were carefully controlled and continued after death.
Business Insider

Researchers reconstruct the face of a teenage mummy believed to have been sacrificed in an Inca ritual more than 500 years ago

Researchers recreated the face of an Inca girl who was believed to have been sacrificed atop a volcano more than 500 years ago. The Inca Ice Maiden is Peru's most famous mummy, discovered in 1995 ...
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The Inca world : ancient people and places ; art, architecture, religion, everyday life, culture ; the native civilizations of the Andes and South America explored in 500 ...

ANTH copy 39088019656784 gift from Paul R. Julian. Introduction -- Discovering the Incas and their predecessors -- Native and Spanish sources -- Explorers and the first archaeologists -- 20th-century ...