They were dead, but for the sake of the capacocha rituals, their bodies had to undergo a series of more unfortunate events.

Researchers examined four frozen mummies recovered from the Ampato and Sara Sara volcanoes in southern Peru during the 1990s using CT scans.

Around 500 years ago, four young girls in South America were bashed in the head and sacrificed in a gruesome Inca ritual. Researchers have conducted CT scans of their mummified remains, previously ...

The Incas were known to engage in a sacrificial ritual involving children to appease their gods. Archaeologists have found and analyzed the remains of these human sacrifices, although not all of them ...