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At a site in the Lambayeque region of northwestern Peru, archaeologists have unearthed 29 human bodies entombed around 1,000 years ago. The site is at Huaca Santa Rosa de Pucalá.   Four skeletons, which are of two children, a teenager and one adult, date back to the Wari civilisation.   Edgar Bracamonte Lévano, excavation's director and research archaeologist, Royal Tombs of Sipán museum, told Live Science through email, “These skeletons represent the region's first known exampl...

The foothills of the Andes mountains are revealing their bloody secrets: the ancient skeletons of sacrificed children.

Found in the foothills of the Andes mountains, the bodies entombed approximately 1,000 years ago at Huaca Santa Rosa de Pucalá, an archaeological site in the Lambayeque region in Peru’s north-west. Four of the skeletons – belonging to two children, a teenager and one adult – date to the Wari culture. Those four skeletons are […]

LIMA, Oct 24 — A team of archeologists in northern Peru discovered the remains of 29 people, including three children, that could help experts rewrite the history of the pre-Incan Wari civilisation, the lead researcher said on Friday. The skeletons were buried more than 1,000 years ago in Huaca...

A team of archeologists in northern Peru discovered the remains of 29 people, including three children, that could help experts rewrite the history of the pre-Incan Wari civilization, the lead researcher said on Friday.

A team of archeologists in northern Peru discovered the remains of 29 people, including three children, that could help experts rewrite the history of the pre-Incan Wari civilization, the lead researcher said on Friday.The skeletons were buried more than 1,000 years ago in Huaca Santa Rosa de Pucala, an ancient ceremonial center in the coastal region of...

Researchers found four tombs in the Huaca Santa Rosa de Pucalá dig site, in the Lambayeque region of Peru, with the remains of children and teenagers.

Discovery of ancient Peruvian burial tombs sheds new light on Wari culture