Why Did the Ancient Chimú Civilization Sacrifice Hundreds of ...
2020年2月10日 · A mass sacrifice of children and llamas 550 years ago may have been a desperate attempt to appease the gods in the wake of heavy rain and flooding.
76 child sacrifice victims with their hearts ripped out found ...
2022年10月7日 · The remains of 76 child sacrifice victims with their hearts ripped out have been found at Pampa La Cruz in Peru. Why they were sacrificed is unknown, but the practice seems to have been...
Exclusive: Ancient Mass Child Sacrifice May Be World's Largest
2018年4月26日 · More than 140 children and 200 young llamas appear to have been ritually sacrificed in an event that took place some 550 years ago on a wind-swept bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, in the...
What made Peru's Chimú people sacrifice their own children?
Some 500 years ago, the Chimú in what is now Peru ritually killed hundreds of their young in the largest mass child sacrifice events known in world history.
'An offering to energize the fields': 76 child sacrifice ...
2024年11月4日 · Isotopes in the water and diets of these children ended up in their remains, providing clues of where the sacrifice victims grew up. Based on a new isotopic analysis, some of the victims came...
Remains of 250 sacrificed children found in Peru - CNN
2019年8月28日 · Archeologists in Peru have uncovered the remains of around 250 children sacrificed by the pre-Columbian Chimú civilization. The remains are of children aged 4-12 years old, as well as 40 warriors,...
What Prompted the Mass Sacrifice of Hundreds of Children and ...
2019年3月6日 · According to the researchers, around 140 children and 200 young llamas were among those sacrificed around 1450 CE, near the capital of what was then Peru’s Chimú Empire. Though the motivations...
A mass sacrifice of children and camelids at the ... - PLOS
2019年3月6日 · Stratigraphy, associated artifacts, and radiocarbon dating indicate that it was a single mass killing of more than 140 children and over 200 camelids directed by the Chimú state, c. AD 1450. Preliminary DNA analysis indicates that both boys and girls were chosen for sacrifice.
This ancient society tried to stop El Niño—with child sacrifice
2024年4月16日 · Since 2011, Peruvian archaeologist and National Geographic Explorer Gabriel Prieto has uncovered evidence of mass child sacrifice around Chan Chan, a massive mudbrick city in northern Peru that...
Hundreds of Children were Sacrificed in Peru, But Why?
2019年8月28日 · Archaeologists working at the pre-Inca Pampa La Cruz site in Peru have found even more evidence of Chimu child sacrifice practices. The sacrificial remains of 76 more children have been discovered at...