The Inca practiced the sacrificial ritual of capacocha, which involved sacrificing children from noble families for various ...

The discovery of an Inca mummy on the Quehuar Volcano, located in the Salta region of Argentina in 1975, was a significant ...

The reconstruction, unveiled on October 24, is part of an exhibition at the Andean Sanctuaries Museum in Peru called “Capacocha, following the Inca Divinities.” The exhibition includes the ...

When the Inca sacrificed children on mountain summits 500 years ago in the capacocha ritual, burial artefacts always accompanied the children in their journey to the `Other World.' Buried ...

Carhua was a ten-year old Inca child whose father offered her to the Inca Emperor as a Capacocha sacrifice. She was taken by priests to Cuzco where she met the Inca Emperor, and on her return ...

Based around the sun god Inti. The sacrifice of children and young women, a ceremony called capacocha, was a central part of this religion. "It was a momentous, state ceremony undertaken only ...