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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.