The best-preserved elite burial in Peru reveals the customs of the Moche civilization, including rituals related to human sacrifice as two youths were strangled and laid to rest with their older ...

A trio of painted, unfired-clay figurines has come to light at the coastal site of Vichama in what is now Peru. The three may ... were likely deposited as ritual offerings before the construction ...

“Rituals and representations that symbolised ... Machu Picchu and the Golden Empires of Peru is on at the Australian Museum, Sydney, until May 11. Tim Elliott and Dominic Lorrimer travelled ...

The lines are found in a region of Peru just over 200 miles southeast of ... but rather led to places where rituals were performed to obtain water and fertility of crops," wrote Reinhard in ...

Boys and girls were selected, often as part of an annual tribute to the Inca state. Chosen children typically came from noble families hoping to gain political favor through these rituals.

The earliest and only known written accounts of the ritual are chronicles written by Spanish conquistador historians. From the chronicles and from each new discovery of a mummy, the pieces of this ...

These high mountain sanctuaries dot the Andes from central Chile to southern Peru. All of the sites are ... Many theories exist about why the Incas performed ritual ceremonies, which sometimes ...

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