Medieval History
An apparent ritual mass sacrifice?including decapitations and a royal beer bash?is coming to light near a pre-Inca pyramid in northern Peru, archaeologists say.
Excavations next to the ancient Huaca Las Ventanas pyramid first uncovered bodies in August, and more have been emerging since then from a 50-by-50-foot (15-by-15-meter) pit.
The pyramid is part of the Sicán site, the capital of the Lambayeque people?also known as the Sicán?who ruled Peru's northern coast from about A.D. 900 to 1100.
Perhaps more than a hundred bodies?buried nude and some of them headless?lie in the newfound pit, according to Haagen Klaus, a bioarchaeologist at Utah Valley University in Orem who is studying the finds.
The bodies are almost all adult males, with the exception of two children, each accompanied by what appears to be an adult woman.
Click here to read this article from National Geographic
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Medieval History
Mysterious Mass Sacrifice Found Near Ancient Peru Pyramid
An apparent ritual mass sacrifice?including decapitations and a royal beer bash?is coming to light near a pre-Inca pyramid in northern Peru, archaeologists say.
Excavations next to the ancient Huaca Las Ventanas pyramid first uncovered bodies in August, and more have been emerging since then from a 50-by-50-foot (15-by-15-meter) pit.
The pyramid is part of the Sicán site, the capital of the Lambayeque people?also known as the Sicán?who ruled Peru's northern coast from about A.D. 900 to 1100.
Perhaps more than a hundred bodies?buried nude and some of them headless?lie in the newfound pit, according to Haagen Klaus, a bioarchaeologist at Utah Valley University in Orem who is studying the finds.
The bodies are almost all adult males, with the exception of two children, each accompanied by what appears to be an adult woman.
Click here to read this article from National Geographic
- New Light On The Nazca Lines
The first findings of the most detailed study yet by two British archaeologists into the Nazca Lines ? enigmatic drawings created between 2,100 and 1,300 years ago in the Peruvian desert ? have been published in the latest issue of the journal Antiquity....
- Skeletons Found At Mass Burial Site In Oxford Could Be ?10th-century Viking Raiders?
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