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Archaeologists find 1,200-year-old remains of sacrificed adults and children in Peru

Peruvian archeologists have unearthed eight children and 12 adults apparently sacrificed around 800-1,200 years ago, they said on Tuesday, in a major dig at the pre-Incan Cajamarquilla complex east of Lima.

Peruvian archeologists have unearthed eight children and 12 adults apparently sacrificed around 800-1,200 years ago, they said on Tuesday, in a major dig at the pre-Incan Cajamarquilla complex east of Lima. The remains were outside an underground tomb where the team from Peru's San Marcos University found in November an ancient mummy thought to be a VIP bound with ropes, in a fetal position. Archaeologist Pieter Van Dalen said the bodies, some mummified and others skeletons, were wrapped ...

By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian archeologists have unearthed eight children and 12 adults apparently sacrificed around 800-1,200 years ago, ...

Peruvian archeologists have unearthed eight children and 12 adults apparently sacrificed around 800-1,200 years ago, they said on Tuesday, in a major dig at the pre-Incan Cajamarquilla complex...

By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian archeologists have unearthed eight children and 12 adults apparently sacrificed around 800-1,200 years ago, they said on Tuesday, in a major dig at the pre-Incan Cajamarquilla complex east of Lima.

LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian archeologists have unearthed eight children and 12 adults apparently sacrificed around 800-1,200 years ago, they said on Tuesday, in a major dig at the pre-Incan Cajamarquilla complex east of Lima.

According to a historian in authority of the Peruvian excavation, the six mummified children could have been a sacrifice to escort a deceased lord to the land of the souls, as the corpses were between 1,000 and 1,200 years of age.

Six mummified children thought to have been sacrificed hundreds of years ago, apparently to accompany a dead nobleman to the afterlife, have been unearthed in a tomb near Lima.

At Peru’s city of Cajamarquilla archaeologists found a tomb of an important person next to six sacrificed children, likely killed to be afterlife companions.