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Offerings Buried With the Llullaillaco Maiden Reveal When the Famous Inca Child Was Sacrificed
Frozen near the summit of a volcano, the Llullaillaco Maiden has looked almost untouched by time for more than 500 years. Now, maize, cassava and coca leaves buried beside her have helped researchers place her death more precisely in history. A new study suggests that the famous Inca capacocha ceremony took place around 1499, during…
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Inca Child Sacrifices May Have Continued Long After Death, New CT Scans Reveal
High in the Andes, where thin air and freezing temperatures preserve the past with brutal clarity, the bodies of sacrificed Inca children have long been seen as silent witnesses to a single moment of ritual death. New research suggests that this assumption may be wrong. A bioarchaeological study led by Dagmara Socha at the University…