The Incas were known to engage in a sacrificial ritual involving children to appease their gods. Archaeologists have found ...

Researchers have found evidence that hallucinogenic plants were used on children as part of sacrificial rituals in Peru hundreds of years ago. Ritual ceremonies played an important role in the Inca ...

New CT scans of Inca child mummies show how sacrifice rituals were carefully controlled and continued after death.

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 ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A powerful culture that lasted from 1438 to 1533, the Incas controlled their vast empire, spanning present-day Peru and Chile, by ...

The face of Peru’s most famous mummy has been reconstructed nearly 30 years after it was found. The mummy is of a teenage girl ritually sacrificed in the Inca empire over 500 years ago. It was ...

The Inca Empire, which lasted from around 1200 to 1533, once stretched for 2,500 miles (4,023 kilometers) across what is now Peru and Chile. One of the most crucial rituals to the Incas was capacocha, ...

(CNN) — Five hundred years ago, a teenage girl who was part of the Inca culture was sacrificed and buried near the summit of Ampato, a dormant volcano in the Andes Mountains. Since the discovery of ...