The Inca, despite their fame and mark left on the country ... The burial was found in a cemetery and held 24 individual ...

There may be hundreds of Inca children, sacrificed in Inca times nearly 500 years ago, entombed in graves of ice atop the western hemisphere's highest peaks. To date, over 115 sacred Inca ...

When the researchers analyzed the children's bones ... By 1620, about 70 percent of the Inca population died from smallpox. Most of the victims did not suffer from bone degradation due to 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 ...

The Children of Llullaillaco were found at the highest elevation ever discovered for sacrificial victims of the former Inca Empire, which ran along the Andes present-day northern Argentina to Peru.

Alternatively, and less comfortably, it may have been part of one of the other Inca religious rituals. Selected children were ritually exposed and left on the mountain peaks as living sacrifices ...

Dr Emma Brown, from the University of Bradford, explained that Spanish chronicles suggest children were sacrificed by the Incas during significant events, such as wars, natural disasters ...