Study Finds Evidence Of Human Sacrifice Across Europe In Stone Age
The practice was called incaprettamento and was prevalent in Europe more than 2,000 years ago, said the study.
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The practice was called incaprettamento and was prevalent in Europe more than 2,000 years ago, said the study.
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.
Archaeologists discovered 425 corpses in an ancient Medieval grave site in southern Britain, including 40 decapitated remains. Approximately 10% of the victims had their heads severed in which almost half of them had their heads tucked between their knees or just near to their toes.